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NSTD.4:5.2 - Worked slice: narrator and reader roles

A future-project scenario can speak from an imagined user’s viewpoint to expose possible consequences. Describe it as a scenario so readers can distinguish the proposed experience from an actual user’s report or consultation. For example:

NarrativeViewpointRecord@FutureUserScenario:
  viewpointOrVoiceKind: prospective scenario voice
  focalizedSourceStructureRef: expected use situation and system interaction
  narrativeFunction: expose usability and risk questions before design is final
  hiddenOrWeakenedSourceStructureRefs: actual user evidence, policy claim, safety claim
  agencyOrResponsibilityRisk: imagined voice is treated as real stakeholder authority
  literalizationRepair: mark as scenario hypothesis and route evidence to user research owner
  sourceReturnCondition: return to source assumptions and later evidence