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Doraemon’s Gadget Lab: Unpacking Human Needs and Interaction Design in Speculative Technology
Doraemon’s Gadget Lab (Tran) is a playful research paper from CHI 2025, held in Yokohama, Japan. Having grown up watching Japanese cartoon show Doraemon, I did not expect to encounter HCI analysis of its gadgets in the CHI proceedings. Tran analyses 379 of Doraemon’s gadgets, categorising them into 33 subcategories and 10 higher-level groupings, to examine the…
Brian Grellmann 