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□ Persuasive Computing (Playful Tray to motivate good eating behavior in young children): Mealtime behavior is one of the most frequently cited problems by parents of young children. Despite nutritional concerns, spending excessive time... more

□ Persuasive Computing (Playful Tray to motivate good eating behavior in young children): Mealtime behavior is one of the most frequently cited problems by parents of young children. Despite nutritional concerns, spending excessive time to eat a meal affects the participation of children in daily school and family routines, and often contributes to negative parent-child interaction during mealtime. To address this eating behavior issue, we have designed and implemented the Playful Tray as a tool to assist occupational therapists and parents in reducing poor eating behavior in young children. The Playful Tray is embedded with an interactive game played over a weight-sensitive tray surface shown in Fig. 1 (c) and (d). By detecting weight changes of the amount of food consumed, the tray surface can recognize and track the natural eating actions of children in real time. Child eating actions are then used as inputs to play a racing game. Screenshots for the racing game are shown in Fig....

This book departs from the universalising and rescue narratives of poor children and technologies. It offers complex stories on how children’s social identities (gender, caste, and religion), cultural norms, and personal aspirations... more

This book departs from the universalising and rescue narratives of poor children and technologies. It offers complex stories on how children’s social identities (gender, caste, and religion), cultural norms, and personal aspirations influence their digital experiences. How do children challenge, circumvent, or reinforce the dominant sociocultural norms in their engagements with digital technologies? What can we learn about digital technologies and poor children’s jugaad and aspirations in the urban sprawls of India? The book explores these questions ethnographically by focusing on how children in three urban slums in India access technologies, inhabit online spaces, and personalise their digital experiences, networks, and identity articulations based on their values and aspirations. It utilises insights from studies on jugaad, expression, and sociality to argue that poor children’s material realities, community relations, and aspirations for leisure, class mobility, and belongingness profoundly shape their engagements with digital technologies.

This article reflects on the challenges for urban planning posed by the emergence of smart cities in network societies. In particular, it reflects on reductionist tendencies in existing smart city planning. Here the concern is with the... more

This article reflects on the challenges for urban planning posed by the emergence of smart cities in network societies. In particular, it reflects on reductionist tendencies in existing smart city planning. Here the concern is with the implications of prior reductions of complexity which have been undertaken by placing primacy in planning on information technology, economical profit, and top-down political government. Rather than pointing urban planning towards a different ordering of these reductions, this article argues in favor of approaches to smart city planning via complexity theory. Specifically, this article argues in favor of approaching smart city plans holistically as topologies of organized complexity. Here, smart city planning is seen as a theory and practice engaging with a complex adaptive urban system which continuously operates on its potential. The actualizations in the face of contingency of such potential are what might have the city evolve over time, its organiz...

Depuis les discours optimistes à propos de l’intelligence artificielle qui prétendent qu’elle améliorera nos conditions de vie, en passant par les discours qui affirment que le monde du travail sera profondément transformé, jusqu’aux... more

Depuis les discours optimistes à propos de l’intelligence artificielle qui prétendent qu’elle améliorera nos conditions de vie, en passant par les discours qui affirment que le monde du travail sera profondément transformé, jusqu’aux discours quasi apocalyptiques qui nous annoncent la survenue d’une superintelligence qui soumettra le genre humain, une chose est certaine, l’intelligence artificielle ne laisse personne indifférent. En fait, depuis Condorcet, les discours optimistes à propos de l’amélioration de la condition humaine par les technologies n’ont jamais cessé de servir de caution à tous ceux qui en développent, tout comme les discours pessimistes n’ont jamais cessé d’alimenter la machine imaginaire des romanciers et des producteurs de Hollywood ; il s’agit là d’un scénario mille fois joué et rejoué, et nous le rejouons collectivement une fois de plus.