Rejected By My Own Robot: Studying the Potential for Artists to Subvert Technological Expectations Using Critical Design

Adam Cole
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This paper provides a framework for how artists can use critical design to subvert deeply ingrained expectations around technology. I begin by defining the technological understanding of being as introduced by Martin Heidegger and break down expectations of technology into efficiency, control, and pleasure. I then ask if the burgeoning HCI practice of critical design could be an effective tool for artists in subverting these expectations. My methodology to study this question is to install a provocative object, in my case a disobedient kissing robot, in a public space and analyze participants’ reactions to it using both video and survey analysis. Results show over 70% of users experienced some degree of surprise, friction, or disappointment with the device due to broken expectations about how they assume technology should work. Our study concludes with a discussion of what value there is in challenging the status quo, how artists can take this work further, and what element humor has in provocative critical design.
被我自己的机器人拒绝:研究艺术家使用批判性设计颠覆技术期望的潜力
本文提供了一个框架,说明艺术家如何使用批判性设计来颠覆人们对技术根深蒂固的期望。我首先定义了马丁·海德格尔(Martin Heidegger)引入的对存在的技术理解,并将对技术的期望分解为效率、控制和愉悦。然后我问,批判性设计的新兴HCI实践是否可以成为艺术家颠覆这些期望的有效工具。我研究这个问题的方法是在公共空间安装一个挑衅的物体,在我的例子中是一个不听话的接吻机器人,并使用视频和调查分析来分析参与者对它的反应。结果显示,超过70%的用户对该设备感到某种程度的惊讶、摩擦或失望,因为他们对技术应该如何工作的设想打破了预期。我们的研究最后讨论了挑战现状的价值,艺术家如何进一步开展这项工作,以及幽默在挑衅性批判性设计中的作用。
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