TY - GEN
T1 - Speculative Data Work & Dashboards
T2 - Designing Alternative Data Visions
AU - Hockenhull, Michael
AU - Cohn, Marisa
PY - 2021/1
Y1 - 2021/1
N2 - This paper studies data work in an organizational context, and suggests speculative data work as a useful concept and the speculative dashboard as a design concept, to better understand and support cooperative work. Drawing on fieldwork in a Danish public sector organisation, the paper identifies and conceptualizes the speculative data work performed around processes of digitalization and the push to become data-driven. The speculative dashboard is proposed as a design concept and opportunity for design, using practices from speculative design and research to facilitate speculation about data?its sources, visualizations, practices and infrastructures. It does so by hacking the 'genre' of the business intelligence data dashboard, and using it as a framework for the juxtaposition of different kinds of data, facilitating and encouraging speculation on alternative visions for data types and use. The paper contributes an empirical study of organizational use of and attitudes towards data, informing a novel design method and concept for co-speculating on alternative visions of and for organizational data.
AB - This paper studies data work in an organizational context, and suggests speculative data work as a useful concept and the speculative dashboard as a design concept, to better understand and support cooperative work. Drawing on fieldwork in a Danish public sector organisation, the paper identifies and conceptualizes the speculative data work performed around processes of digitalization and the push to become data-driven. The speculative dashboard is proposed as a design concept and opportunity for design, using practices from speculative design and research to facilitate speculation about data?its sources, visualizations, practices and infrastructures. It does so by hacking the 'genre' of the business intelligence data dashboard, and using it as a framework for the juxtaposition of different kinds of data, facilitating and encouraging speculation on alternative visions for data types and use. The paper contributes an empirical study of organizational use of and attitudes towards data, informing a novel design method and concept for co-speculating on alternative visions of and for organizational data.
KW - speculative design
KW - business intelligence
KW - data visualization
KW - ethnography
KW - data work
U2 - 10.1145/3434173
DO - 10.1145/3434173
M3 - Conference article
VL - 4
JO - Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction - CSCW
JF - Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction - CSCW
SN - 2573-0142
IS - CSCSW3
M1 - 264
ER -