This workshop was held at CHI 2025 in Yokohama, Japan. It brought together HCI researchers and designers to explore the growing role of storytelling in design and HCI, examining storytelling as an active method of inquiry. Participants submitted short position stories alongside reflections situating their work in HCI, and the day centred on writing exercises and discussions around narrative craft, the relations between fiction and knowledge, and the risks and tensions of using stories in research.
The workshop paper is available in the ACM Digital Library: How do design stories work? Exploring narrative forms of knowledge in HCI
Organised by: Doenja Oogjes, Heidi Biggs, Audrey Desjardins, Nadia Campo Woytuk, Sylvia Janicki, Karey Helms, Kristina Andersen, Laura Devendorf, Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard, and Li Jönsson.
Submission stories
- Airport Photos. Lenny Martinez, Baptiste Caramiaux, Sarah Fdili Alaoui.
- A New Day: Collaborative Storytelling to Support Robot Design. Sawyer Collins, Daniel Hicks, Selma Sabanovic.
- Becoming in Altered Gravity. Bine Roth.
- New Age Love and HCI Reflection. Selin Fidan.
- AI Baby Jesus: Using a Design Metaphor for AI to Explore Design Fiction. Dashiel Carrera.
- More-than-human Encounters: Swimming with Seaweed. Natalie Sontopski.
- Micro-narratives. Position statement. Amira Skeggs.
- More Than Just Stories: Access Stories as a Means to Cripping Technology Design. Oliver Suchanek, Robin Angelini, Janis Lena Meißner.
- A Shared Womb: A speculative Future Informed by Political Ideologies. Felix Anand Epp.
- Modern Snapshots in the Crafting of A Medical Illustration. Ke Er Amy Zhang, Laura Garrison.
- Some Drone Stories. Mafalda Gamboa.
- Becoming Host: Speculating Intelligence Beyond the Human. Federico Espositi.
- We’re Sorry to See you Go. Joseph Hutchinson.
- GenBodies. Position reflection. Anna Brynskov.
- Alt-g Betagen – Invited Lecture Guest Script. Beatrys Fernandes Rodrigues
- In Between Trees. Ege Kokel, Doenja Oogjes, Oscar Tomico.
- A bit like Whodunnit: Storytelling in Health Sensor Engineering from poesis to praxis. Emma L. Tonkin, Rahcel Eardley
- Fake it ‘til you find it: Fabulating Unseen Participant Dynamics. Darren Scott
- Blair’s Predicament. Pejman Saeghe.
- Following Primates. Aarjav Chauhan, Virendra Mathur.
- Echoes of What is not said: on narrative agency in zine workshops. Yu-Rou Lin.
- Using Stories to Hear Their Stories. Soonho Kwon.
- Stories we leave behind. Researching the unspoken in HCI. Mahla Alizadeh.
- Stories blurring barriers. Andreas Lindegren.
- Multiperspective Storytelling Regarding a Net-Zero Transition. Amal Al Shardy, Kari Dahlgren, Andres Santo Torres, Lyn Bartram, Sarah Goodwin.
- Communicating Emotive Folk Theories and Tenison through a First-Person Vignette. Faye Kollig.
- Black, Bird: A Metaphorical Story of Posthuman Climate Futures Considered in HCI Terms. Ray LC.
- Doğanın Ahengi – Harmony of Nature. Sena Cucumak
- The Voice that Lied: the emotional toll of AI companionship in Sophia’s story. Sima Amirkhani, Alexander Boden.
- Threshold of Occurrences. Ron Wakkary.
- Situating Entanglements with Data, the Data Economy and Algorithms in the Everyday Through Storytelling. Samual Barnett, William Odom.
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