Towards an Active Predictive Relation by Reconceptualizing a Vacuum Robot: Research on the Transparency and Acceptance of the Predictive Behaviors

With the development of Artificial intelligence, the connected objects are extended with the predictive capabilities and the character of things can change to “things that predict”. If a connected device is able to embrace a predictive system that not only profiles for scripted behavior but could also use the knowledge co-created by all the...

Empowering smart city residents through legibility: A Digital Tool to Discover Smart City Projects

The role that smart technologies play and the data they generate is becoming central in cities; cities are adopting technologies as a new way of governance and making policies based on data. Increasingly, governments and companies implement data-driven strategies, and the number of sensors in the public space is increasing. This translates into...

The Giant Leap toward AIoT at Scale: Exploring the barriers to scaling Artificial Intelligence of Things

The powerful convergence of AI and the Internet of Things (IoT), or Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) in short, is no longer on the horizon; it has already arrived. By combining AI’s ability to quickly wring insights from data and the ever-growing network of connected devices and systems that generate data, companies can avoid unplanned...

Machine learning systems in the IoT: Trustworthiness trade-offs for edge intelligence

Machine learning systems (MLSys) are emerging in the Internet of Things (IoT) to provision edge intelligence, which is paving our way towards the vision of ubiquitous intelligence. However, despite the maturity of machine learning systems and the IoT, we are facing severe challenges when integrating MLSys and IoT in practical context. For...

Technology and More-Than-Human Design

Are we reaching the limits of what human-centered and user-centered design can cope with? Developing new design methodologies and tools to unlock the potentials of data technologies such as the Internet of Things, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for the everyday job of design is necessary but not sufficient. There is now a need to...

Generating Value from Government Data Using AI: An Exploratory Study

Open government data initiatives have gained popularity around the world. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to make better use of data. Combining the OGD and AI is crucial to generate more value from data. In this paper we investigate what kind of value was generated through AI and how. A context-input-process-output/outcome ...

Development of An Adaptive Staircase System Actuated by Facial-, Object-, and Voice-Recognition

This paper details a proof-of-concept development of an adaptive staircase system-type capable of user-specific mechanical reconfigurations actuated by facial-, object-, and voice-recognition. The system is described via two variation-prototypes - developed at Technology Readiness Level 4 - as instances of the same system-type. Accordingly,...

Development of a Light-Tracking and-Redirecting System Actuated by Hand-Gesture Recognition

This paper presents a context-Aware light-Tracking and-redirecting system guided by hand-gesture recognition. It is conceived as yet another mechanism within an ongoing development of a more intuitive and technically sophisticated Ambient Intelligence / Active and Assisted Living ecosystem. The detailed system consists of individual nodes...

Integration of a wearable interface in a design-to-robotic-production and -operation development

This paper presents the integration of an Internet of Things wearable device as a personal interfacing node in an intelligent built-environment framework, which is informed by Design-to-Robotic-Production and -Operation principles developed at Delft University of Technology. The device enables the user to act as an active node in the built...

Envision: enabling vision for visually impaired

Envision began as an attempt to increase independence for people with visual impairment. During the course of the project, through a very participatory design approach, a deep understanding of the challenges faced by visually impaired people was obtained. A technology exploration in search for potential solutions led to the discovery of the...