Experiencing the Hybrid City:
						The Role of Digital Technology in Public Urban Places

Luusua, Anna; Ylipulli, Johanna; Kukka, Hannu; Ojala, Timo

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“…Similarly, our approach is also heavily influenced by shared backgrounds in urban technology research; and indeed, as evidenced by the centrally important types of AI applications we address in this article (autonomous vehicles and facial recognition in addition to general AI), AI seems to intertwine with urban places and spaces. As computing systems in general are now a part of the lived environment [25], including homes, workplaces and public places [33], we argue that these existing urban technologies act as a gateway for the introduction of AIs. These developments are connected also with the Smart City agenda, which specifically aims to integrate more and more digital technology into urban environments.…”

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Artificial Intelligence and Risk in Design

Luusua

Ylipulli

2020

Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are more and more integrated into everyday lives, both scholarly and popular discourses on AI's often revolve around charting the various risks that may be associated with them. The manner and magnitude of risk that various researchers identify and foresee varies; however, what is common between them is, undoubtedly, the concept of risk itself. This concept, we argue, has been largely taken for granted by the fields involved in the research on AI's; in other words, "risk" has been employed with an everyday sensibility without due critical examination. In this paper, we address risk as a concept directly, by examining interdisciplinary theories and literatures on risk to discuss examples of AI technologies. Through this work, we aim to begin a critical discussion of the importance of theorising risk within design research and practice, and within the development of emerging technologies.

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Artificial Intelligence and Risk in Design

Luusua

Ylipulli

2020

Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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“…Material viability: Upkeep of permanent and semi-permanent physical computing infrastructures in a city is a perennial problem, especially due to the vastly differing time scales that are present in urban planning [25]. Issues that have to do with the material viability of playful and playable urban lighting encompass the activities and objects that occupy the same urban spaces as the technologies, and the very real and prosaic issues of material upkeep and climate-resistance (we have explored this from the point of view of other urban technologies in [44]).…”

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“…Technological viability: Software updating and maintaining technological functionality in general, is a challenge for long-term installations of playful and playable lighting. As with other smart city technologies, the time-scales of city-making and software-making are vastly different (we have explored this in conjunction with urban displays in [25]). The planning and design processes for public urban places may take years.…”

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Playful and Playable Lighting in Smart Cities: Towards a Holistic Framework of Design

Pihlajaniemi

Luusua

2019

Making Smart Cities More Playable

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In this chapter, we will explore the phenomenon of playful and playable lighting in smart cities. We will describe and discuss participant experiences of playful and playable lighting based on the design and evaluation processes of four case studies. These studies, we argue, provide aspects of participation, communication and self-expression; experiences of the sense of place, meanings and beauty; and activities of play and physical exercise. We will look at these case studies, and the aspects of playfulness and playability, through the lens of both smart city literature and relevant theories, and the practical experiences from the processes, examining also the afterlife of the case studies. We reflect on the presented case studies and their experiential aspects, asking: How can playful and playable lighting be made viable in a city? Finally, we conclude by presenting a design framework which consolidates aspects that, we argue, should be acknowledged, considered and addressed in the design and decision-making processes of smart cities, neighbourhoods and urban places in order to create playful experiences of playable urban lighting in a viable way.

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