Provoking Futures of Care : Codesign and Artificial Intelligence with Older People
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https://doi.org/10.46516/inmaterial.v9.199Keywords:
Care Futures, Seniors, Artificial intelligence, Co-design Methodologies, technodiversityAbstract
This article analyzes the results of an experimental investigation that explores how artificial intelligence (AI) image generators can be integrated into the care of older adults, based on a methodological prototype that generates visualizations based on their discourses. Based on a speculative and co-design approach, we worked with the experiences, connections and lives of older people, normally excluded from technological innovations, challenging the traditional and assistance basted representations of care. This critical prototype that questions techno-optimism and the predominant visions of youth-centered design, proposes a more inclusive and sensitive perspective that reflects the diversity of worldviews and aspirations of this demographic group. In dialogue with the debates that advocate for a plurality in the ways of conceiving technologies, this article emphasizes the importance of creating spaces of intervention and speculation to integrate the voices of the elderly in the design of healing technologies, offering a critique of a single technological development and its impact on Latin American society.
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