Thinking with, dissenting within: care-full critique for more-than-human worlds

Thinking may be more than computing.

The uncomputable parts of thinking (if there are any) can be studied in much the same spirit that Turing (1950) suggested for the study of its computable parts. We can develop precise accounts of cognitive processes that, although they involve more than computing, can still be modelled on the machines we call ‘computers’. In this paper, I want to suggest some ways that this might be done, using...

Design for the Right to the Smart City in More-than-Human Worlds

Environmental concerns have driven an interest in sustainable smart cities, through the monitoring and optimisation of networked infrastructure processes. At the same time, there are concerns about who these interventions and services are for, and who benefits. HCI researchers and designers interested in civic life have started to call for the democratisation of urban space through resistance a...

Full Review Biomarkers: more than just markers!*

In the strive for optimal indicators of kidney damage, nephrologists may at times feel entangled in a molecular jungle. Contrary to cardiologists that succeeded in establishing highly sensitive biomarker molecules for hypoxic cellular damage, nephrologists await well-performing ‘damage’ indicators. Reasons for this are ample and mostly relate to the complex composition of the functional units a...

Planning in Dynamic Worlds: More Than External Events

Hardly any environment is a static domain in which an agent is the only one who is changing states of the world. Thus, many events occur that are not a direct consequence of an agent’s actions. Besides events that occur in full independence of an agent, there are events that can be influenced indirectly, e.g., by asking other agents to perform specific tasks. Even in the absence of other agents...

More than ramps: accessible health care for people with disabilities.