Representing the Virtual: Using AAS to Expose Digital Assets

The Industry 4.0 Asset Administration Shell provides a standardized mechanism for collaboration between digital systems in the factory. Digital data within factories is typically stored in databases, we explore the requirements of providing an AAS as an interface to the data contained within the aforementioned databases. Based on these...

A Systems Integral Approach in Exploring Creative Innovation in Culinary Research: The Example of Seaweed in the Context of the New Nordic Cuisine

Creativity and innovation in culinary research have gained steady academic interest over the last decade. The scholastic interest in creative innovation ranges from its artistic value to culinary creations, gastronomic experiences, and food science and technology. Creative innovation is important for food enterprises to succeed in a highly...

Data-driven Update of AGROVOC Using Agricultural Text Corpora

AGROVOC is a well-known multilingual controlled vocabulary covering the fields of agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and food. It is used for dataset annotation, indexing of literature, and automated text tagging, and its effective use depends on its continuous update. Currently, updates are done manually by a dispersed community of editors. In...

Pupil Diameter as Implicit Measure to Estimate Sense of Embodiment

We explore pupil diameter (PD) as estimator of Sense of Embodiment (SoE) using data of three user studies. We hypothesize that pupil diameter reflects SoE in a direct and indirect way. If individuals feel strongly embodied, presenting an emotional stimulus like a threat to the surrogate will produce a strong response, as if the stimulus would be...

Method for Rapid Ethical Deliberation in Research and Innovation Projects

There are many and diverse methods available that can help researchers, designers, developers, and engineers integrate ethics in their research and innovation projects. In practice, however, they can find this challenging. They may believe that such methods are difficult and time-consuming, or that ethics hinders innovation and creativity....

Transdisciplinary AI Observatory—Retrospective Analyses and Future-Oriented Contradistinctions

In the last years, artificial intelligence (AI) safety gained international recognition in the light of heterogeneous safety-critical and ethical issues that risk overshadowing the broad beneficial impacts of AI. In this context, the implementation of AI observatory endeavors represents one key research direction. This paper motivates the need...

Artificial creativity augmentation

Divergent effects of detachment from work a day-level study on employee creativity

Detachment from work during non-work time is generally related to a decrease in work-related strain. However, it might also hamper employees’ generation of new and useful ideas about work by completely shutting off work-related thoughts and/or feelings outside of work. In this day-level study, we used a within-person design to investigate the...

Toward physiological indices of emotional state driving future ebook interactivity

Ebooks of the future may respond to the emotional experience of the reader. (Neuro-) physiological measures could capture a reader's emotional state and use this to enhance the reading experience by adding matching sounds or to change the storyline therewith creating a hybrid art form in between literature and gaming. We describe the theoretical...

Let's share a story: Socially-enhanced multimedia storytelling

User-generated audio-visual content is becoming the most popular medium for information sharing and social storytelling around a live event. This paper introduces an online multimedia storytelling ecosystem comprised of purpose-built user applications, a collaborative story authoring engine, social context integration, and social-aware media...

Virtues in participatory design: Cooperation, curiosity, creativity, empowerment and reflexivity

In this essay several virtues are discussed that are needed in people who work in participatory design (PD). The term PD is used here to refer specifically to an approach in designing information systems with its roots in Scandinavia in the 1970s and 1980s. Through the lens of virtue ethics and based on key texts in PD, the virtues of...

Creatief gedrag gekleurd. Hoe ontmoetingsruimten creativiteit kunnen beïnvloeden

Cooperation, curiosity and creativity as virtues in participatory design

In this essay, I explore how virtue ethics can help to better understand design processes. Three virtues are discussed that people need in order to become participatory design virtuosos: cooperation, curiosity and creativity.

Effects of meeting room interior design on team performance in a creativity task

This study examines the effects of spatial characteristics of meeting rooms on the divergent phase in the creativity process of a group and on the mood states arousal and psychological safety. Thirty participants (12 male and 18 female) were randomly allocated to 10 mixed-gender three-person groups. They performed two creativity tasks in three...

Mediacampaign - A multimodal semantic analysis system for advertisement campaign detection

MediaCampaign's scope is on discovering and inter-relating advertisements and campaigns, i.e. to relate advertisements semantically belonging together, across different countries and different media. The project's main goal is to automate to a large degree the detection and tracking of advertisement campaigns on television, Internet and in the...

Effects of the office environment on health and productivity 1: Effects of coffee corner position

New technology will make it possible to have access to information everywhere. As a result "face to face" communication with colleagues could reduce and creativity and health could be influenced negatively. In this paper a coffee corner is changed and the effect on communication is tested by measuring the number of conversations at the coffee...

Participation: The key to intelligent manufacturing improvement

This paper describes the background and objectives of the IST project “Organizational Aspects of Human-Machine Coexisting Systems” (HUMACS), that develops and pilot-demonstrates a Participative Simulation environment for Integral (i.e., logistics, technology and human factors) Manufacturing enterprise renewal (PSIM). In the short run, HUMACS...