arbiter
JournalsAccount

Experiencing the future mundane: configuring design fiction as breaching experiment

Andy Crabtree et al.

Human-Computer Interaction2025https://doi.org/10.1080/07370024.2025.2454555article
AJG 1ABDC A
Weight
0.46

Abstract

This paper introduces a novel methodological approach for surfacing the acceptability and adoption challenges that confront future and emerging technologies from the perspective of mundane action, in which they will ultimately be embedded and used. This novel approach configures design fiction as a breaching experiment to surface taken for granted background expectancies that are fateful for acceptability and adoption. We explain the logic of this new interdisciplinary method and present a concrete case to demonstrate its viability: a design fiction called Experiencing the Future Mundane (EFM), which depicts a future world in which watching TV is driven by smart adaptive media. We explicate the design of the EFM, how it was configured to breach common sense knowledge and surface taken for granted background expectancies concerning how watching TV works and is expected to work, the acceptability and adoption challenges that emerge from user engagement with the experience, and how this novel approach may be adopted more broadly.

4 citations

Open via your library →

Cite this paper

https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/07370024.2025.2454555

Or copy a formatted citation

@article{andy2025,
  title        = {{Experiencing the future mundane: configuring design fiction as breaching experiment}},
  author       = {Andy Crabtree et al.},
  journal      = {Human-Computer Interaction},
  year         = {2025},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/07370024.2025.2454555},
}

Paste directly into BibTeX, Zotero, or your reference manager.

Flag this paper

Experiencing the future mundane: configuring design fiction as breaching experiment

Flags are reviewed by the Arbiter methodology team within 5 business days.

Evidence weight

0.46

Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40

F · citation impact0.37 × 0.4 = 0.15
M · momentum0.60 × 0.15 = 0.09
V · venue signal0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03
R · text relevance †0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20

† Text relevance is estimated at 0.50 on the detail page — for your query’s actual relevance score, open this paper from a search result.