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Urdarbrunnen: Towards an AI-enabled mission system for Combat Search and Rescue operations
Get PDFThe Urdarbrunnen project is a Saab-led exploratory initiative that aims to develop an operator-assisted AI-enabled mission system for basic autonomous functions. In its first iteration, presented in this project paper, the system is designed to be capable of performing the search task of a combat search and rescue mission in a complex and dynamic environment, while providing basic human machine interaction support for remote operators. The system enables a team of agents to cooperatively plan and execute a search mission while also interfacing with the WARA-PS core system that allows human operators and other agents to monitor activities and interact with each other. The aim of the project is to develop the system iteratively, with each iteration incorporating feedback from simulations and real-world experiments. In future work, the capability of the system will be extended to incorporate additional tasks for other scenarios, making it a promising starting point for the integration of autonomous capabilities in a future air force
Understanding Large Language Models through the Lens of Artificial Agency
Get PDFThis paper is motivated by Floridi’s recent claim that Large Language Models like ChatGPT can be seen as ‘intelligence-free’ agents. Where I do not agree with Floridi that such systems are intelligence-free, my paper does question whether they can be called agents, and if so, what kind. I argue for the adoption of a more restricted understanding of agent in AI-research, one that comes closer in its meaning to how the term is used in the philosophies of mind, action, and agency. I propose such a more narrowing understanding of agent, suggesting that an agent can be seen as entity or system that things can be ‘up to’, that can act autonomously in a way that is best understood on the basis of Husserl’s notion of indeterminate determinability
EQUID-DEM: Empowering brand experience design with ergonomics
Get PDFErgonomics and brand experience design (DEM for its acronym in Spanish “Diseño de Experiencia de Marca”) are two theoretical and practical approaches that share a central element: the human being. Under this statement, this article presents how it is possible to enhance the DEM service through the structured incorporation of ergonomics thanks to the Ergonomics Quality in Design (EQUID) model. The EQUID-DEM tool is proposed as an alternative to enhance the inclusion of internal and external users in the DEM service. This proposal is especially useful for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), since it enables a structured and effective process that is often only carried out in companies with many resources allocated to the development of the marketing area
Designing for informal co-production in mental healthcare: an innovative psychiatry program and the strategies from a territorial lab
Get PDFThis paper reflects on the process of co-producing mental health with informal actors, patients, health and social providers. In particular, this research examines the potential of territorial laboratories as places of experimentation for co-producing services for recovery. The Case study examined is the Brescia Recovery Co-Lab in Italy, developed with the aim to facilitate territorial experimentation of co-produced mental health and wellbeing services and initiatives with users, family members, local actors and service providers at the community level. Through a thematic analysis of the interviews, five main factors emerged that influence the co-production of mental health with informal resources: Time, Value, Participation, Co-design and Scale. The core of these factors concerns the experimentation with practices outside the traditional organisational logics typical of territorial laboratories, structures that favour dynamic co-production in mental health
Building a shared relational identity: shifting notions of self in designing social innovation
Get PDFWhile designing social innovation (DSI) is increasingly considering the role and value of relationships, little attention is placed on the complexity of relationality and the specific, situated dynamics of dealing with relational entanglements. In particular, as design’s ontological background comes into question, the designers’ identity and the processes of collective and personal transformation that characterise DSI need further consideration. This paper reports the outcomes of an exploratory qualitative study aiming at examining relational approaches to DSI pertaining to the construction of a collective sense of self. It provides insights into how practitioners interact and how they construct and nurture shared relational identities, concluding with suggestions for future DSI work based on these perspectives
Detecting tech-driven inequalities: a service design framework
Get PDFTechnological growth is realizing an ever more intelligent and convenient future. But is this future equal, and what role does service design hold in addressing, or exacerbating, these inequalities? The relationship between technology and inequality is fluid, moving from the elimination of existing inequalities to the creation of new ones, and service design has the potential to impact this relationship. However, current literature to identify this potential is limited, with service design’s contribution to the technology-inequality-design nexus not clearly identified. This paper analyses the mutual relationship between technology, inequality, and service design, and proposes a novel framework incorporating four dimensions of service design and their links to inequality and applies the framework to autonomous vehicle (AV) technology as an example. More broadly, the framework can be used by service designers to identify different dimensions of hidden inequality within service design
Autoethnographic study of applying service journeys to asylum applications
Get PDFJust as the COVID-19 pandemic was starting to fade, the Russia–Ukraine conflict erupted into a large-scale war. This caused a new influx of refugees to many European countries. In this case study, through an autoethnographic service journey, we investigate the process of applying for asylum in Norway. We aim to understand the parts of the journey that work well and the issues that still require attention. By analysing the data collected, we can see that there are two main underlying issues, which are creating transparency and building trust between the applicant and the service system involved in asylum seeking processes. We noted that in this individual case, trust was constructed by the extent to which the officials treated the applicant as an equal. Making the entire asylum application journey visible from the first step is one way to find approaches to improve this process in the future
How can we adapt Service Blueprint for future crises? Lessons learned from government services under COVID-19
Get PDFCOVID-19 crisis highlighted some wicked challenges in designing government services. While no standardized solution was found, government workers responded flexibly to uncertain situations. Service Blueprint (SB) is one of the useful design tools to understand, analyze, plan, and implement government services. However, it does not flexibly adapt to unsystematized information and unconventional services. Although SB needs adaptability for such uncertainty issues, there have been few studies on SB in governments under COVID-19. Therefore, this study explores how to adapt SB to government issues for future crises. A qualitative study of COVID-19 vaccination services in Hino Town, Japan found five flexible actions to deal with uncertainty. Based on them, we proposed three issues and the future direction of SB. This study extends the possibilities of service design tools that design disciplines can provide for governments and promote strategies for future crises
Semantic Classification of Prepositions in BulTreeBank WordNet
Get PDFThe paper presents the work in progress for a PhD thesis about preposition incorporation in the Bulgarian BulTreeBank WordNet. Being one of the most polysemous parts of speech, prepositions are still relatively challenging for NLP and are usually missing in wordnets. A preposition semantic classification, a model for preposition synsets and synset relations are proposed. The planned applications of the prepositions and the directions for future processing are introduced
Deciphering Charles Quint (A diplomatic letter from 1547)
Get PDFAn unknown and almost fully encrypted letter written in 1547 by Emperor Charles V to his ambassador at the French Court, Jean de Saint-Mauris, was identified in a public library, the Bibliothèque Stanislas (Nancy, France). As no decryption of this letter was previously published or even known, a team of cryptographers and historians gathered together to study the letter and its encryption system. First, multiple approaches and methods were tested in order to decipher the letter without any other specimen. Then, the letter has now been inserted within the whole correspondence between Charles and Saint-Mauris, and the key has been consolidated thanks to previous key reconstructions. Finally, the decryption effort enabled us to uncover the content of the letter and investigate more deeply both cryptanalysis challenges and encryption methods