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- They found that researchers use science fiction in a variety of different ways. One is for theoretical design research. Another is to refer to and explore new forms of human-computer interaction, which researchers increasingly think is shaped by science fiction books and films.
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Apr 5, 2018 · Research in human-computer interaction is mentioning science fiction more than ever, a group of scientists has found. Many researchers acknowledge the role that science fiction...
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Feb 19, 2019 · I’m talking about science fiction, a genre that often features (or even revolves around) imagined technologies. But science fiction is also concerned with imagining possible futures, or alternative presents (and pasts).
Aug 31, 2020 · Science fiction can mean many different things; however, when people discuss the genre, they are usually referring to worlds that differ from our own as the result of new scientific...
Sep 20, 2021 · Alan Turing’s thought experiments of the Turing Machine and the Turing Test, the ethical robots of Isaac Asimov’s imagination, and the early robotic prototypes and rhetoric of the cybernetics movement in the 1940s and 1950s could all be framed as technically grounded, speculative stories about AI.
- Andrew Dana Hudson, Ed Finn, Ruth Wylie
- 2021
Oct 9, 2020 · A recent review found science fiction is increasingly used as source material for research with intentionally public relevance and consequences (Menadue & Cheer, 2017).
- Christopher Benjamin Menadue, Kristi Giselsson, David Guez
- 2020
Jul 3, 2021 · In this paper, we propose to use Science Fiction movies and shows as a means of speculative design research in Computer Science research, education and application.
Jul 18, 2022 · These examples suggest that science fiction can help us understand how the public imagines future AI and robots, as opposed to directly predicting the future. Science fiction stories and the new technologies they describe provide good indicators of how the general public perceives technology.
