期刊名称：She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation
印刷版ISSN：2405-8726
出版年度：2019
卷号：5
期号：3
页码：209-230
DOI：10.1016/j.sheji.2019.08.003
语种：English
出版社：Elsevier
摘要：AbstractIn this article, we present our research using design fiction to explore future wellbeing technologies for older adults. “For Good Times and Bad Times” is a design fiction representing a range of emotional, qualitative, and functional goals associated with wellbeing health technology. We invited a small cohort of experts to participate in a wearable monitoring device co-creation session, and then invited older-aged participants to review and reflect on a design fiction crafted from the experts’ findings and a set of psychological needs and values that have been associated with wearable health devices. The results offer insight into the future of wellbeing monitoring technology, and demonstrate the power design fiction has to communicate and generate deep discussions on the psychological, cultural, and social implications of using technologies that mediate complex personal experiences. We discuss the challenges associated with creating and using design fiction in research with older adults, and the potential of fiction to shift perspectives and elicit prospective outcomes of using future technologies.Highlights•Design fiction is a powerful tool that uses a narrative to contextualize a future design and the needs, values, and experiences associated with it.•It enables design collaborators to grasp prospective design ideas and more profoundly explore the implications of future technologies, particularly when design mediates complex experiences for older adults.•Establishing a user goal framework and a set of relevant psychological needs prior to creating a fiction can help design researchers better formulate the narrative and more pointedly assess their research questions.•We present a set of six design fiction characteristics to guide designers wishing to employ design fiction as a thinking and research tool.
