@inproceedings{c0faf61f80db4f0487c20b5c3852931d,
title = "Chewing It Over: Revealing Tensions and New Directions for More-Than-Human Relational Ethics Through Speculative Design",
abstract = "HCI research increasingly engages with relational notions of ethics, such as care, felt and transcorporeal ethics, as new paradigms for design. Here, we discuss these relational notions in the context of multispecies design, extending it to incorporate Acampora's concept of Corporal Compassion, which grounds ethics on a shared sense of livingness and vulnerabilities across beings. In order to elicit corporal compassion towards microorganisms, we designed a dining-theatre intervention, which invited participants to ingest and assign moral values to dishes prepared with speculative human-microbial hybrid cells originated from beings exposed to similar levels of bodily distress. Tried with 47 participants in 7 sessions, the work surfaced the idiosyncrasies behind participants' moral frameworks, and how socialised prescriptive frameworks of ethics sometimes acted as closure towards relational approaches. We discuss how HCI could rethink traditional frameworks of ethics in ways that support relationality, while calling for researchers to make space for moral hesitation.",
keywords = "Biodesign, Corporal Compassion, Felt Ethics, Human-Food Interaction, Moral Deliberation, More-than-Human, Multispecies Design, Relational Ethics, Speculative Design, Transcorporeality",
author = "Yuning Chen and Adam Frank and Larissa Pschetz",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2026 Copyright held by the owner/author(s).; 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2026 ; Conference date: 13-04-2026 Through 17-04-2026",
year = "2026",
month = apr,
day = "13",
doi = "10.1145/3772318.3791048",
language = "English",
series = "Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings ",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
editor = "Nuria Oliver and Shamma, \{David A.\} and Heloisa Candello and Pablo Cesar and Pedro Lopes and Alessandro Bozzon and Thomas Kosch and Vera Liao and Xiaojuan Ma and Valentino Artizzu and Fiona Draxler and Gustavo Lopez and Reinschluessel, \{Anke V.\} and Xin Tong and \{Toups Dugas\}, \{Phoebe O.\}",
booktitle = "CHI 2026 - Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems",
address = "United States",
}