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Are We Doing Enough? Sharing Design and Manufacturing Expertise Across Open Source Hardware Communities
No full textWorking with open source hardware designs is often a challenging task. Details about the design and the steps necessary for production may be limited, and bringing the relevant information together often introduces significant educational, institutional and socio-economic barriers. Where explicit support for working with open source hardware design files is provided, its efficacy is difficult to measure. Not only is it often hard for the community to re-create and build on open source designs, it’s also hard for authors of open source projects to know how best to provide suitable help and guidance.As a research community, could we do more to ensure that information relating to our open source hardware designs is accessible, understandable and effective? Are we using the best processes and channels to empower the widest audience to work with and replicate open source hardware? This workshop will explore and assess methods of information sharing within and between open hardware communities and their efficacy. We will examine industrial, academic and social spheres to construct a multidimensional image of where help can be found, what help is out there, how it can best be leveraged, and what opportunities exist to enhance access to it
Gender and Politics in the EU
No full textThe European Union (EU) frequently presents itself as a champion of gender equality and women's rights. While this narrative is contested and has been subject to critique, the EU has instituted an equality framework that is more gender-aware than the individual member states. In this chapter, we consider a cross-section of gender equality measures and ask how these have to come to be included on the EU's agenda, which actors have contributed to the inclusion of equality in the EU's legal framework, and which ones responsible for helping to keep equality on the agenda of the EU institutions, even as anti-gender initiatives rise in individual member states
Digital assets, personal property and categorisation: the Property (Digital Assets etc) Act 2025
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Walking with a 6-year-old and a smartphone:locative AR, counter-mapping and the productive disruptions of intergenerational collaboration in Placing Spaces.
No full textPlacing Spaces is an ongoing practice-research project I have been developing with my daughter Poppy since June 2023. Together, we have been testing a process of intergenerational collaboration and attempting to use walking methods and creative technologies to explore place from a child’s perspective. This article outlines the process we have been on thus far and critically reflects on a geo-located AR walk I shared in Leeds in August 2023. Bringing together a series of key critical lenses – walking scholarship, intergenerational performance, theories of spatial images, locative media, posthumanism and childism – I argue that walking-with a 6-year-old and a smartphone enabled us to embrace a series of entanglements between adult, child, technology and place, which aimed to decentre my role as father/parent/artist/researcher
Becoming Legal:Feminism and Abortion Law in 1970s Italy
No full textConventional top-down approaches to legal reform tend to overlook the contributions of social movements in legal change, often resulting in a gender-blind analysis. In response, I advance ‘becoming legal’ as a novel analytical framework to rethink legal change in terms of a bottom-up process comprehending informal proceedings as well as formal status changes. Offering a gender perspective on legal change, becoming legal gives new significance to often overlooked sites, agents and practices. Rather than focusing on the widely studied experiences of Britain or the United States, I ground the argument within the first comprehensive analysis of feminist mobilisation around abortion law reform in 1970s Italy. Over this period, the Italian Parliament approved Law 194/1978, which still regulates abortion access in the country. Beyond traditional legal methods, I draw upon original archival materials that span feminist records and parliamentary debates, and a set of qualitative interviews with campaigners
The transformation of EU and NATO security narratives:Towards resilience and total defence?
No full textAmidst multiplying crises at the global level, the dominant narratives of the European Union (EU) and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have come under strain. Drawing on narrative approaches, we argue that the EU’s previous dominant narrative of ‘peace’ has been replaced by one of ‘resilience’. For NATO, resilience has worked to complement past dominant narratives of military deterrence and liberal security community. This narrative shift has been facilitated by external shocks and the role of narrative entrepreneurs. Intriguingly, this article finds evidence of increasing narrative convergence among these two main European security providers. In a context of deteriorating crises, we have witnessed a shift in the meaning of resilience from a transformational process (‘the ability to reform’) towards a more inward-looking and defensive notion of resilience. In the face of a potential ‘total war’, a resilience narrative supporting the goal of total defence through the strengthening of societal resilience is currently emerging within both the EU and NATO
From Detection to Anticipation: Online Understanding of Struggles across Various Tasks and Activities
No full textUnderstanding human skill performance is essential for intelligent assistive systems, with struggle recognition offering a natural cue for identifying user difficulties. While prior work focuses on offline struggle classification and localization, real-time applications require models capable of detecting and anticipating struggle online. We reformulate struggle localization as an online detection task and further extend it to anticipation—predicting struggle moments before they occur. We adapt two off-the-shelf models as baselines for online struggle detection and anticipation. Online struggle detection achieves 70–80% per-frame mAP, while struggle anticipation up to 2 seconds ahead yields comparable performance with slight drops. We further examine generalization across tasks and activities and analyse the impact of skill evolution. Despite larger domain gaps in activity-level generalization, models still outperform random baselines by 4–20%. Our feature-based models run at up to 143 FPS, and the whole pipeline, including feature extraction, operates at around 20 FPS — sufficient for realtime assistive applications
The Power of Matching for Online Fractional Hedonic Games
No full textWe study coalition formation in the framework of fractional hedonic games (FHGs). The objective is to maximize social welfare in an online model where agents arrive one by one and must be assigned to coalitions immediately and irrevocably. A recurrent theme in online coalition formation is that online matching algorithms, where coalitions are restricted to size at most 2, yield good competitive ratios. For example, computing maximal matchings achieves the optimal competitive ratio for general online FHGs. However, this ratio is bounded only if agents' valuations are themselves bounded.We identify optimal algorithms with constant competitive ratios in two related settings, independent of the range of agent valuations. First, under random agent arrival, we present an asymptotically optimal (1/3-1/n)-competitive algorithm, where n is the number of agents. This result builds on our identification of an optimal matching algorithm in a general model of online matching with edge weights and an unknown number of agents. In this setting, we also achieve an asymptotically optimal competitive ratio of 1/3-1/n. Second, when agents arrive in an arbitrary order but algorithms are allowed to irrevocably and entirely dissolve coalitions, we show that another matching-based algorithm achieves an optimal competitive ratio of 1/(6 + 4√2)
