Developing a Utopian Model of Human-Technology Interaction: Collective Intelligence Applications in Support of Future Well-Being

Nathan N. Soch, Michael Hogan, Owen Harney, Michelle Hanlon, Catherine Brady, Liam McGrattan

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    Abstract

    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.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)54-75
    Number of pages22
    JournalUtopian Studies
    Volume33
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Mar 2022

    Keywords

    • collective intelligence
    • human-technology interaction
    • stakeholder engagement
    • systems science
    • utopian design

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