TY - JOUR
T1 - Developing a Utopian Model of Human-Technology Interaction
T2 - Collective Intelligence Applications in Support of Future Well-Being
AU - Soch, Nathan N.
AU - Hogan, Michael
AU - Harney, Owen
AU - Hanlon, Michelle
AU - Brady, Catherine
AU - McGrattan, Liam
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022. The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.
PY - 2022/3
Y1 - 2022/3
N2 - Human-technology interactions are omnipresent in daily life, a reality that must be faced to enact positive change without uprooting the technological systems that have come to define us. The present study develops a collective intelligence model for human-technology interaction (HTI) design that aims to promote peace, prosperity, and happiness through design intentionality informed by utopian targets of radical improvement in society. Participants generated ideas, clarified and consolidated them, and then developed an interpretive structure model of the most important affordances identified during the idea generation phase. Coupled with a two-pass thematic analysis of the original idea set, what emerged is a model that is informed by stakeholder users of the technologies of tomorrow. Affordance themes centered on the importance of promoting world peace through technological means, identifying and rectifying material and financial inequalities, addressing negative well-being effects in current technologies, and increasing global collaboration and eventual expansion into the cosmos.
AB - Human-technology interactions are omnipresent in daily life, a reality that must be faced to enact positive change without uprooting the technological systems that have come to define us. The present study develops a collective intelligence model for human-technology interaction (HTI) design that aims to promote peace, prosperity, and happiness through design intentionality informed by utopian targets of radical improvement in society. Participants generated ideas, clarified and consolidated them, and then developed an interpretive structure model of the most important affordances identified during the idea generation phase. Coupled with a two-pass thematic analysis of the original idea set, what emerged is a model that is informed by stakeholder users of the technologies of tomorrow. Affordance themes centered on the importance of promoting world peace through technological means, identifying and rectifying material and financial inequalities, addressing negative well-being effects in current technologies, and increasing global collaboration and eventual expansion into the cosmos.
KW - collective intelligence
KW - human-technology interaction
KW - stakeholder engagement
KW - systems science
KW - utopian design
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85131354017&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.5325/utopianstudies.33.1.0054
DO - 10.5325/utopianstudies.33.1.0054
M3 - Article
SN - 1045-991X
VL - 33
SP - 54
EP - 75
JO - Utopian Studies
JF - Utopian Studies
IS - 1
ER -