Public Dialog and Creative Facilitation for Humane Technology

Abstract

Emerging from the creative facilitation practices of gamers, rapid prototyping of hackers, critical embodiment of activists and improvisatory interventions of performers, this public dialog offers an alternative, interdisciplinary and inclusive mode of interaction and knowledge exchange for MOCO attendees. An international group of leading dance and technology researchers will bring participants into an environment filled with stimuli drawn from relevant threads of debate and overlapping conversations in humane technology including human-centered computing (HCC), ethics and the arts and design. The experience is structured by a creative facilitation format called a “movement storm” devised to enable conference goers to gather, glean and absorb relevant concepts and catalyzing ideas, add new information, connect, sort, sift, perform and produce their own relationalities and finally synthesize and emerge with an outcome of their own creating. As complex human movement becomes increasingly central to human computer interaction (HCI) through augmented, virtual and mixed reality technologies, and becomes enmeshed in and interactive with computational processes and logics such as AI, it is critical that methodologies such as movement storm are used to deepen dialog and probe the humane and inhumane aspects and implications of these systems.