How do design stories work? Exploring narrative forms of knowledge in HCI
Design is storied, and stories are designed. While elements of stories have long been part of the field through methods like personas, scenarios and design fictions, there has been a recent surge of new approaches including fabulations, epics, memoirs, site-writing and design events. In this workshop we aim to understand how stories are built, what narrative traditions they draw from, how they co-constitute research processes and what kind of knowledge can emerge from them. Specifically, we will explore the role of storytelling in HCI, the craft of writing stories, relations between fiction, truth and knowledge and finally the risks, tensions and limitations of writing stories. We will outline an overview of this new wave of stories in HCI and what they are activating and advocating for, build a set of tips, tricks and advice for writing stories and keep track of ongoing issues and open questions for further research.
Authors
- Karey Helms (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1454-7854)
- Li Jönsson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5748-0135)
- Audrey Desjardins (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1980-1292)
- Nadia Campo Woytuk (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7673-0822)
- Laura Devendorf (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3656-7936)
- Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9884-0205)
- Doenja Oogjes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-5060)
- Heidi R. Biggs (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9208-7921)
- Sylvia Janicki (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8369-5650)
- Kristina Andersen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2639-2175)
Institutions
- Georgia Institute of Technology (US)
- Oslo School of Architecture and Design (NO)
- Stockholm University (SE)
- Malmö University (SE)
- University of Colorado Boulder (US)
- University of Washington (US)
- Atlas Scientific (United States) (US)
- Eindhoven University of Technology (NL)
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology (SE)
- Umeå University (SE)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2025-04-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3706599.3706717
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.94