topic & target audience
For my capstone project I want to cover the excessive reliance on AI powered tools and the negative impacts it may have on people's critical thinking and analytical skills. My target audience would be college level students, an age group of people who often rely heavily on AI tools.
lenses
I can see this project leaning into any of the lenses discussed in class, but the ones I'm particularly interested in for this project are speculative design and challenging mental models. However, I am also considering data visualization for stronger argumentative purposes.
These lenses seem the most appropriate to spark discussion and encourage critical thinking. Rather than laying out the cold truth, perhaps an interactive and slightly odd experience will get people to think.
potential features
potential challenges
This project can go down the more narrative driven route where I can imagine users interacting with an AI-chatbot, a very familiar user interaction. This chatbot can be used to create a ironic narrative that somehow switches during the process and reveals the truth or effects of heavy AI reliance.
On the other hand, this project could be more data driven. Hard facts and statistics to expose the reality. I can see this being used to dramatize a narrative or to make it appear more credible. However, I think it might take away from a more interactive experience where users can directly control the webpage to influence the narrative of the experience.