Pushing the Limits of Design Fiction: The Case For Fictional Research Papers
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A full fictional paper argues that writing entire plausible research reports can reveal societal and ethical implications that short imaginary abstracts miss. The example game of drones details quadcopter enforcement where users score points for catching illegal parkers and dog fouling, with designed landing stations, rewritten UK legislation, signage, fake datasets and a video demo, archived in ACM and fiction revealed at the end. The method forces authors to build a complete diegetic landscape, raises ethics about deception, yet passed peer review.
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