Design Considerations for Data Daemons: Co-creating Design Futures to Explore Ethical Personal Data Management
Wiebke Toussaint, Alejandra Gomez Ortega, Jered Vroon, Julian Harty,, G\"urkan Solmaz, Olya Kudina, Ella Peltonen, Jacky Bourgeois, Aaron Yi Ding

TL;DR
This paper presents a participatory design approach using futures and fiction to involve end-users in shaping ethical personal data management, making abstract concepts tangible through Data Daemons.
Contribution
It introduces a novel participatory process combining design futures, workshops, and fictions to co-create ethical data management concepts with non-experts.
Findings
Engaged end-users and designers in envisioning ethical data futures.
Created tangible representations of data concepts as Data Daemons.
Enabled active participation of non-experts in ethical data design.
Abstract
Mobile applications and online service providers track our virtual and physical behaviour more actively and with a broader scope than ever before. This has given rise to growing concerns about ethical personal data management. Even though regulation and awareness around data ethics are increasing, end-users are seldom engaged when defining and designing what a future with ethical personal data management should look like. We explore a participatory process that uses design futures, the Future workshop method and design fictions to envision ethical personal data management with end-users and designers. To engage participants effectively, we needed to bridge their differential expertise and make the abstract concepts of data and ethics tangible. By concretely presenting personal data management and control as fictitious entities called Data Daemons, we created a shared understanding of…
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TopicsPrivacy, Security, and Data Protection · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
