This document summarizes a workshop on envisioning things as citizens in near future cities. The workshop will include an introduction to the Partnerships in Cities of Things (PACT) program, group assignments to discuss the interplay between human and non-human citizens, and sharing of results. Upcoming research on intelligent artifacts that can connect to networks, collect data, act proactively, and behave socially will also be discussed. Open questions consider how people will adapt to things outside of their control and how to design appropriate interactions between humans and things.

4. Envisioning Things As Citizens
in near future cities

5. Program
workshop
Intro PACT (IS, 20 min)
Group assignment (15 min)
Share results (15 min)
Next steps in research (ML, 10 min)

6. Partnerships in Cities of Things

7. Iskander
Smit
Maria Luce
Lupetti
@iskandr @mlucelupetti
Elisa
Giaccardi
@elisagiaccardi
Nazli
Cila
@nazli_cila

9. Some of the
activities
- Postdoc research (AMS funded)
- Hackathon IoT Rotterdam
- Workshop BorderSessions
- Project Digital Design Master HvA
- Project Minor Interactive environment
- Master Graduation research projects
Louise Hugen, Sen Lin, Petek Tezcan
- Delft Design Lab Cities of Things
- Paper NordiCHI future scenarios
- Paper CHI (in review)
- Workshop ThingsCon (planned)

10. Affective Things
Iohanna Nicenboim, Elisa Giaccardi, 2017

12. Roboats
AMS & MIT Senseable Cities Lab

13. Text
second part
Rush Hour _ Black Sheep Films

14. Things with agency
Intelligent, fed by the cloud, in conversation with humans

15. Intelligent artefact
- Connect with existing network
- Collect realtime data
- Act proactively
- Behave socially

16. Cities of Things
How can things connect to existing data and cloud services in the
smart city and act in concert with people?

17. Smart city
paradigms
#1 Data dashboard
#2 Adaptive infrastructure
#3 City of Things

18. Paradigm #1
The smart city as a dashboard
- Sensing and collecting data
- Awareness building
- Then back to policy and regulation

19. Air Quality apps
Plume Air Report

20. Three types of
the sensing city
The Control Room
A focus on operational excellence and
serving economic values mainly
The Creative City
The city as an innovation lens, to
develop new services
The Smart Citizen
A city as political and civic
community
Martijn de Waal, 2017

22. Paradigm #2
The smart city as
an intelligent infrastructure
- Mitigation (sensing + actuation)
- Opportunity for concerted action

23. Roboats flexible infrastructure
MIT Senseable City Lab

24. Adaptive lighting
Hoekenrodeplein Amsterdam

25. Paradigm #3
Cities of Things
- Things as social entities
- Cannot be controlled (like humans)
but can be governed
- Need for social contracts
(pacts, agreements)

26. Delivery pods
Starship technologies

27. Things as social entities
Data-enabled artefacts with
performing capabilities
Able to:
- Connect with existing networks of data
- Sense and collect real time data
- Act proactively
- Behave socially

28. Co-performance as
conceptualization
Artifacts have artificial body/minds capable of
performing social practices next to people.
Issues related to the appropriateness of an interplay
between human and artificial body/minds is
addressed in terms of changing divisions of roles and
responsibilities between human and artificial
performers
Kuijer, L., & Giaccardi, E. (2018). Co-performance: Conceptualizing the Role of Artificial
Agency in the Design of Everyday Life. Proc. CHI 2018. ACM Press: New York.

29. Things as citizens as design inquiry
Graduation research Louise Hugen, 2018

30. Louise Hugen, 2018

33. Smart cities of today
Monitoring…
Quantifying…
Replacing…
Partially efficient,
fixed solutions
Smart cities of tomorrow
Including…
Complementing…
Redistributing…
Appropriate,
fluid solutions

34. Open
questions
How much are we prone to accept and adapt to
things that behave out of our control?
How can we design for appropriate interplays
between humans and things?
What are the appropriate: Morphologies, Non-
Verbal Behaviors, Interaction Schemas for Things
as Citizens?

35. Ideation of a future scenario characterized
by provocative design concepts.
TaCIT
Things as Citizens Ideation Toolkit

36. TaCIT // M. L. Lupetti // Delft University of Technology
Aim of TaCIT
Identify different strategies
PREMISE
Identify different roles and values
Point out critical issues

37. New methods and tools
Envisioning workshop with TaCIT

38. New relationships
and interactions
Ideation and design
Sketches by Xueliang Li

39. Future scenarios
Paper NordiCHI M.L. Lupetti et al
Near Future Cities of Things: Addressing Dilemmas through Design Fiction

40. Dilemmas
Responsibility
private – public
Priority
human – system
Relationship
tool – social partner
Adaptation
human – thing
Delegation
partial - total

41. Dilemmas
Responsibility
private – public
Priority
human – system
Relationship
tool – social partner
Adaptation
human – thing
Delegation
partial - total

42. Delivery pods

44. Let’s start!

45. The friendly
delivery robot
3 or 4 groups
Discuss how the interplay between
human and non-human citizens will be.
Visualize in a sketch

46. Partnerships in Cities of Things