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A digital tool supporting human-centered design of inclusive urban interventions
In this paper presentation a digital tool is presented that can support policy makers in participative design on a large scale. There is a lack of digital resources to do this.
Thinking about solutions to urban social problems is complex. Indeed, it requires the perspective of diverse stakeholders with their unique needs and values on a large scale. Applying a participatory design approach can focus on people's perspectives, but suffers from scalability issues. In addition, this design is usually based on the experiences of policy makers.
Based on previous work, empathy is identified as a crucial factor for involving people on a small scale in thinking about societal solutions. Building on this knowledge, we explored how digital tools can increase empathy between different stakeholders to support pressing societal issues.
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Safeguarding machine vision in cities
How can we design urban smart sensing solutions in such a way that it becomes difficult to re-use them in a malicious way? In this paper presentation a solution is presented: You need to know what the machine shouldn't know.
Machine vision systems are more and more being used for smart city applications. Think, for example, of radars measuring the traffic on streets. While these systems enable rapid decision-making on a large scale, they can easily be reused for irresponsible applications. And that may be harmful to stakeholders.Part 1:
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Due to technical failure unfortunately a part of the presentation has not been recorded.
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Agent-based modeling of urban exposome
All over the world, more and more people live in cities. Therefore, it is also becoming more important to understand and improve the impact of urban habitat on health behaviors and outcomes. It is argued to intervene in the urban dweller's Exposome - the environmental factors to which people are exposed during their lives.
However, implementing interventions that address the Exposome in complex urban systems can be costly, have long-term effects and can have unforeseen consequences. Therefore, it is important to assess the health impact, cost-effectiveness and social distribution effects of Urban Exposome Interventions (UEI's) before they are implemented.
This paper presentation, which you can watch below, discusses the methodological considerations and challenges for successfully modeling interventions using Spatial Agent Based Modeling (Spacial ABM). From 13:18 there's a Q&A. -
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A global analysis of multifaceted urbanization and implications for sustainability
Urbanization as a global phenomenon is a multifaceted process, affecting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in and around urban areas.
In this paper we do the first global attempt to characterize the complexity of urbanization from 1975 to 2015 in terms of population, built-up structure, and greenness, as well as monitoring urban sustainability indicators at the grid level covering all inhabited areas. The presentation is followed up by an Q&A (15:00).