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Chasing Digital Shadows: Exploring Future Hybrid Cities through Anthropological Design Fiction

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Johanna Ylipulli,

Jenny Kangasvuo,

Timo OjalaAuthors Info & Claims

NordiCHI '16: Proceedings of the 9th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2971485.2993923

Published: 23 October 2016 Publication History

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This paper presents an anthropological design fiction envisioning a future hybrid city where 3D virtual city models and physical reality are intertwined seamlessly. The crafted fiction addresses three broad themes. Firstly, it explores how not only digital and physical but also past and present as well as near and distant places might become entangled in such a hybrid city. Secondly, we speculate what it means if the digital traces of a person -- perhaps even his/her digitalized body -- continue "living" in a hybrid city after s/he has passed away. Thirdly, we raise questions regarding power: who owns the digital city, and who has the right to change it? Lastly, we ponder some sociocultural questions and design ideas opened up by the fiction.

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