Keywords :
awareness support tools; collaborative work; personal informatics; speculative design; workplace; 'current; Awareness support tool; Collaborative Work; Design fictions; Hybrid forms; Informatics; Personal informatics; Speculative design; Support tool; Workplace; Human-Computer Interaction; Computer Networks and Communications; Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition; Software
Abstract :
[en] In recent years, companies massively invested in videoconferencing and awareness support tools to support hybrid forms of collaborative work. Current market solutions feature various augmentations of videoconferencing software based on tracked interaction metrics that fall short of meaningfully informing or reshaping collaborative work. Additionally, there are signs that personal informatics systems-widespread in the private sphere for health and well-being-might rapidly spread to the workplace. Our research posits that the confluence of awareness support tools, self-tracking systems, and AI is a compelling focal point. This paper uses design fiction to explore technology-enhanced collaboration. The starting points of the narrative are rooted in, and extrapolate, current trends and signals from a social, societal, and technological perspective. The fictional portrayal of the Trinity quantified workplace serves as a catalyst for thought-provoking discussions, offering a valuable lens for reflection on the trajectory of current technology development and supporting a discussion about the interplay between technological futures and sociological futures.
Funding text :
Illustrations were created or adapted from images generated by Midjourney (www.midjourney.com). ChatGPT by OpenAI has been used as an inspiration to generate or adapt some parts of the design fiction dialogues. This research has been supported by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) IPBG2020/IS/14839977/C21.
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