Making AI-Infused Products and Services More Legible

FRANZISKA PILING is a PhD Design candidate funded by the PETRAS IoT hub, researching design’s role in making algorithmic intelligence and its associated systems, processes, and misconceptions more legible to users and designers through alternative practices such as speculative design with philosophy.

HAIDER ALI AKMAL is a design researcher and lecturer at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. His work explores postanthropocentric visions of human-agent interaction toward future focused imaginings of technology using philosophy, making, and play.

JOSEPH LINDLEY is a senior research fellow and leads Design Research Works, a project dedicated to design research as a key means for addressing emerging socio-technological challenges. He is an alumnus of the PETRAS Centre for Excellence for IoT Systems Cybersecurity and the ACM Future of Computing Academy, held the AHRC’s Challenges of the Future Fellowship in AI & Data, and has published widely on the adoption and acceptability of emerging technologies.

ADRIAN GRADINAR is a design lecturer exploring topics such as design and implementation of immersive physical/digital objects and spaces for investigating legibility, negotiability, and agency at the point of human-data interaction, tackling the implications of technological advances on human lives.

PAUL COULTON is the research chair of Speculative and Game Design in the School of Design at Lancaster University. His works address socio-technical futures in order to explore future worlds in which many worlds can fit.