Designing smart city systems that include societal values
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Digital Detox: Disconnect to Reconnect
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Pilot City Soundscapes
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Beta procurement tool for cities to safeguard autonomy
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Smart city systems can help solve urban challenges. But when collecting data, what public values are involved? The Responsible Sensing Lab explores how to integrate social values in the design of sensing systems in public space.
In January 2021 the Responsible Sensing Lab was officially launched during an interactive livestream event. In essence the Lab is a testbed for conducting rigorous, transparent, and replicable research on how our smart technologies placed in public space can be designed in a way that makes the smart city ‘responsible’.
Our projects
Digital Detox: Disconnect to Reconnect
This project seeks to explore and implement creative strategies to help young people disconnect from their phones and reconnect with the world around them.
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Pilot City Soundscapes
The Responsible Sensing Lab's Listening to our Cities project investigates the effect of sound on the urban environment. The test setup at the Marineterrein helps to further refine the accuracy of the sensors.
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Beta procurement tool for cities to safeguard autonomy
Cities increasingly rely on technology provided by market parties, also when it comes to procurement decisions. We developed a prototype decision aid to help municipalities incorporate strategic autonomy into their procurement processes for digital services.
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Consortium Smart Doorbells
The Smart Doorbell Consortium is committed to the responsible use of smart doorbells. It explores the needs and concerns of citizens and investigates both regulatory and design-based solutions to address privacy and security risks. The initiative also aims to establish an international consortium to create a comprehensive list of functional requirements for manufacturers to design safer products.
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Winners Call for Proposals: Responsible Solutions in the Smart City
We have two winners for our Call for Proposals: 'Responsible Solutions in the Smart City'!
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mmWave Results
We have relaunched the mmWave pilot at Marineterrein to better understand the technology and its application for monitoring crowds in the urban infrastructure. Our Researcher Girish will share his first results.
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3 findings Shuttercam pilot ArenA
The Shuttercam project tested two prototypes on location at the Johan Cruijf ArenA in Amsterdam. How do professionals, activists and passersby react to this intervention? Here we dive into 3 results from the experiment.
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