「Narracat Camera」貓咪敘事相機──探索虛構敘事在促進人貓關係中意義建構的潛力

The 「Narracat Camera」: Exploring the Potential of Fiction to Foster Meaning-Making in Human-Cat Relationships

隨著互聯網、人工智慧等新興技術普及於大眾的日常生活，人與伴侶動物的共居情境日益多元。為了協助設計師探索多元情境下人與動物關係的變化，本研究開發一組研究產品「Narracat Camera」，旨在提供探索人貓多元互動的新視角。「Narracat Camera」將人貓的日常影像與《我是貓》的小說敘事結合，藉此作為引發人們思考的催化劑，並探索虛構敘事為人貓關係建構有意義對話之潛力。本研究於三組有貓家庭中進行為期五天的部署，透過半結構式訪談蒐集使用者經驗，並採主題分析法進行後續分析。研究結果發現，參與者不僅重新詮釋自身與貓的共居經驗，也引發了思維與行動的改變。我們的貢獻有兩點：（1）新的方法：透過結合生活紀錄與虛構敘事，我們提供一種能啟發人們重新思考人貓互動關係的設計策略；（2）新的設計機會：透過分析虛構敘事的詮釋潛力，我們指出虛構策略在人與動物互動領域中能拓展的多元設計空間。

As emerging technologies such as connectivity and artificial intelligence increasingly shape everyday life, they also transform how we cohabit with non-human companions. In response, this research presents the“Narracat Camera”, a research product designed to support reflection on the plurality of human–cat relationships. The“Narracat Camera”overlays everyday home recordings with subtitles drawn from I Am a Cat, creating an entanglement of fact and fiction. By reframing the mundane, it invites participants to reinterpret interspecies interactions and uncover new meanings. Deployed across three households, the“Narracat Camera”enabled participants to revisit their routines through new lenses and reflect in thought and behaviour. The contributions of this study are twofold: (1) a method that overlays everyday home recordings with fiction to surface alternative perspectives on interspecies life, and (2) a proposition that opens up the potential of fiction as a material for reflecting on more-than-human design.