  HCI is fundamentally occupied with the problem of the future and
understanding the acceptability and adoption challenges that future and
emerging technologies face from the viewpoint of their being situated in
everyday life. This paper explicates an interdisciplinary approach towards
addressing the problem and understanding acceptability and adoption challenges
that leverages design fiction as breaching experiment. Design fiction is an
arts based approach to exploring the future, breaching experiments a social
science method for explicating common sense reasoning and surfacing the taken
for granted expectations societys members have and hold about situated action
and how it should work. Both approaches have previously been employed in HCI,
but this the first time they have been combined to enable HCI researchers to
provoke through design the acceptability and adoption challenges that confront
future and emerging technologies.
