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Toward Humanity-Centered Design without Hubris
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Toward Humanity-Centered Design without Hubris

Tim Gorichanaz and ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY
Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp 1-7
11 May 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3613905.3644060
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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.11576View
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Abstract

Human-centered computing -- Human computer interaction (HCI) -- HCI theory, concepts and models Human-centered computing -- Interaction design -- Interaction design theory, concepts and paradigms
Humanity-centered design is a concept of emerging interest in HCI, one motivated by the limitations of human-centered design. As discussed to date, humanity-centered design is compatible with but goes beyond human-centered design in that it considers entire ecosystems and populations over the long term and centers participatory design. Though the intentions of humanity-centered design are laudable, current articulations of humanity-centered design are incoherent in a number of ways, leading to questions of how exactly it can or should be implemented. In this article, I delineate four ways in which humanity-centered design is incoherent—which can be boiled down to a tendency toward hubris—and propose a more fruitful way forward, a humble approach to humanity-centered design. Rather than a contradiction in terms, “humility” here refers to an organic, piecemeal, patterns-based approach to design that will be good for our being on this earth.

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