Changing Human-Technology Dialogues

The following document provides a summary on the framing and scoping activities I did in the subject area. The purpose of the activities to set directions and boundaries to my research and

Background and topic identification

Formulated Design Bet Based on my professional background, experience and articles, I have crafted the following bet:

Design Bet

Evolution through expirements and reviews Since the topic selection the following interactions helped me to receive new perspectives and learnings: Think outside of the corporate context Find my narrative, what’s the purpose Deep listenting excercise and reading list at Extended Intelligence classes Own experiment: overwhelming, situations and limitations

Exploratory and inspirational research To extended my perspective I conducated research activities to see topics, methods and narratives of others within the subject area:

MIT Inspiration
Take-aways: Design x Tech x Critical Inquiry
Address social and cultural issues
Extensive prototyping
Speculative design
Signals and formats
Biggest inspiration: MIT Media Labs - Critical Matter research group https://www.media.mit.edu/groups/critical-matter/overview/
Take-aways:
Importance of trust and emphaty
Solveing tasks
Impact on behaviour and wellbeing
Perception on AI
Surrvailance
Creating space and situations
Hardware, sensors
Privacy
Recognize sound
How to solve complex tasks
Personalization
Cognitive and skill development
Conversation and sound design
Further research sources
Voice Search Statistics 2025 ArXiv Research on Voice Interfaces Emotional Intelligence in Voice Assistants Munich University HCI Research The Laughing Room - MIT Arts The Wall of Sound Installation Voice Assistants for Visually Impaired Her Movie - AI Companions Voice Assistants and Child Development HCI Studies 2025

Framing and breakdown of work

Project Summary Chart

Outcomes and results

Constraints and directions The following statements will serve as the framing principles of my further work:

Keep the scope in the context of work
Limit the scope how humans interact with technology to solve a problem
Investigate the impact on well-being, capabilities and attitudes
Investigate the role of power and communication

Narrative and mindset I will use the following narrative during my design work:

Keep the scope in the context of work
Limit the scope how humans interact with technology to solve a problem
Investigate the impact on well-being, capabilities and attitudes
Investigate the role of power and communication

Research / design questions I have identified and ranked the following questions as a subject of my design work:

What would we give up to be efficient and successfull with AI?
Can we build a human-to-human dialogue between humand and tech?
What’s the future of work clothes?
How will our workspace look like?
Will earbuds conqure the work device market?