Table 1 Summary of the design fictions
| Â | Technologies involved | Time frame | Genre | Area of application to HE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Fiction 1: AIDan, the teaching assistant | Intelligent tutoring systems, adaptive pedagogical agents, use of sensors to allow affective/embodied adaptivity | Future | Traditional design scenario | Teaching |
Fiction 2: Footbotball | Robots | Future | Soliloquy | Extra curricula activity |
Fiction 3: CriticalBot in conversation | Conversational agent | Present | Dialogue | Teaching |
Fiction 4: The intelligent campus app | Smart campus: wayfinding, nudging | Present/near future | Mundane, day in the life | Estates management/ Teaching |
Fiction 5: Research Management Suite TM | Text and Data Mining, auto summarisation, auto writing | Future | Marketing and PR material | Research |
Fiction 6: Verbatim minutes of University AI project steering committee: AI implementation phase 3 | Not defined | Near future | Meeting minutes | All |
Fiction 7: Dashboards | Data mining, conversational agents | Future | Soliloquy | Administration/Teaching |
Fiction 8: Minnie, the AI admin assistant | Conversational agents | Near future | Surreal, cyberpunk dystopia | Administration, Wider social infrastructure |