The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction. CHI is a place where researchers and practitioners gather from across the world to discuss the latest in interactive technology. 

The paper proposed by Klumbyte, Draude and Britton, interrogates the practices of imagining in human-computer interaction (HCI), particularly in scenario building (SBE) and persona construction. The authors discuss the philosophical premises of HCI imaginings in rationalism, cognitivism and phenomenology, and propose (feminist) new materialist philosophy as an enriching perspective that helps generate a holistic, relational perspective of users, imaginaries and technologies. In the end the paper explores the method of figurations as a potential tool for HCI design.

The paper was accepted for the workshop "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Exploring the Intersection of Philosophy and HCI", organised by Norman Makoto Su (University of Bloomington), Victor Kaptelinin (Umeå University), Jeffrey Bardzell (Indiana University), Shaowen Bardzell (Indiana University), Jed Brubaker (CU Boulder), Ann Light (University of Sussex), and Dag Svanæs (Norwegian University of Science and Technology). The workshop will take place on May 4, 2019, in Glasgow, UK.