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Implications for Adoption

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Publication date3/05/2017
Host publicationCHI '17 Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Place of PublicationNew York
PublisherACM
Pages265–277
Number of pages13
ISBN (print)9781450346559
<mark>Original language</mark>English
EventCHI 2017 - Colorado Convention Center, Denver, United States
Duration: 6/05/201711/05/2017
https://chi2017.acm.org

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ConferenceCHI 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityDenver
Period6/05/1711/05/17
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Conference

ConferenceCHI 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityDenver
Period6/05/1711/05/17
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Abstract

In this paper we explore the motivations for, and practicalities of, incorporating ‘implications for adoption’ into HCI research practice. Implications for adoption are speculations which may be used in research projects to scrutinize and explore the implications and requirements associated with a technology’s potential adoption in the future. There is a rich tradition within the HCI community of implementing, demonstrating, and testing new interactions or technologies by building prototypes. User-centered design methods help us to develop prototypes to and move toward designs that are validated, efficient, and rewarding to use. However, these studies rarely shift their temporal focus to consider, in any significant detail, what it would mean for a technology to exist beyond its prototypical implementation, in other words how these prototypes might ultimately be adopted. Given the CHI community’s increasing interest in technology-related human and social effects, the lack of attention paid to adoption represents a significant and relevant gap in current practices. It is this gap that the paper addresses and in doing so offers three contributions: (1) exploring and unpacking different notions of adoption from varying disciplinary perspectives; (2) discussing why considering adoption is relevant and useful, specifically in HCI research; (3) discussing methods for addressing this need, specifically design fiction, and understanding how utilizing these methods may provide researchers with means to better understand the myriad of nuanced, situated, and technologically-mediated relationships that innovative designs facilitate.

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© ACM, 2017. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in CHI '17 Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025742