Design Fiction: Anticipating Adoption

This tutorial highlights the potential of design fiction with Game of Drones, a fictional user trial of an imagined Drone Enforcement System. The authors explore a potential future use of drones for civic enforcement activities and advance a program for developing design fiction as a research method. This method provides a means for exploring the societal, technological, and political nuances of possible futures so researchers can better consider possible adoption pathways for emerging technologies. This tutorial is part of a special issue on drones.