Tag: AI
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Designing away digital mess
Have you ever found yourself frustrated by how complex and messy our digital society has made what were previously quite simple tasks? Take paying for parking your car. Once there were simple cash ticket machines (or even someone in a cabin at the entrance). Pay, display the ticket; job done. Now there may still be…
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Learning to live with artificial intelligences and autonomous technologies
Society is rarely ready for new technologies and AI is no exception. Suddenly AIs seem to be ‘everywhere’, in our work and home lives, in universities, health care systems and even on border patrols. Yet we haven’t deliberated and decided what circumstances AI may be useful; how to govern and regulate them for public benefit;…
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Ethical Decisions in Digital Product Design
Throughout my career, I have been deeply fascinated by the human experience and how people interact with the technology around them. Over the years, I have been lucky enough to work on various design projects, allowing me to explore this topic in depth. From designing user interfaces for software programs to developing new prototypes, my…
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What is the role of urban robotics in an unpredictable world?
Rapid advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) are making urban robotics an everyday reality. In this blog post we summarise the story of Starship robots in Milton Keynes (MK) to assess their contribution to the complementary mechanisms and institutions that supported the most vulnerable in MK during a challenging point of the Covid19 pandemic. We then…