How do design stories work?: Exploring narrative forms of knowledge in HCIShow others and affiliations
2025 (English)In: Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2025, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , 2025Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Design is storied, and stories are designed. While elements of stories have long been part of the field through methods like personas, scenarios and design fictions, there has been a recent surge of new approaches including fabulations, epics, memoirs, site-writing and design events. In this workshop we aim to understand how stories are built, what narrative traditions they draw from, how they co-constitute research processes and what kind of knowledge can emerge from them. Specifically, we will explore the role of storytelling in HCI, the craft of writing stories, relations between fiction, truth and knowledge and finally the risks, tensions and limitations of writing stories. We will outline an overview of this new wave of stories in HCI and what they are activating and advocating for, build a set of tips, tricks and advice for writing stories and keep track of ongoing issues and open questions for further research.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , 2025.
Keywords [en]
Story, Stories, Narrative, Design Research, Relational knowledge
National Category
Human Computer Interaction
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-374446DOI: 10.1145/3706599.3706717ISI: 001496972000070Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105005743379OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-374446DiVA, id: diva2:2023124
Conference
2025 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems-CHI, APR 26-MAY 01, 2025, Yokohama, JAPAN
Note
Part of ISBN 979-8-4007-1395-8
QC 20251218
2025-12-182025-12-182025-12-18Bibliographically approved