FiVu: Using Design Fiction to Identify Future Vulnerabilities in Bio-IOT
1st November 2021 - 28th February 2022

Project team

Co-Investigator
Senior Lecturer in Technology and Information Management, Royal Holloway University of London

Co-Investigator
Director of Human and Digital Design, Northumbria University

Summary
Tell me a story about security, please!
It is very difficult to think what information security and privacy problems a new product might encounter, especially in the fast-moving health automation field of BIO-IOT. This project explores using creative fiction – stories, fantasy and speculation – to help software developers and product owners to identify such threats and vulnerabilities.
Following an initial literature survey on creative fiction, we plan to start by surveying experts and fans of fiction for example text; we’ll then build it into a format for a workshop, and trial that workshop with a team of health software application builders. As outcomes, we shall share fiction examples/scenarios, process followed and conclusions from the workshops.