Two years anniversary responsible Sensing Lab
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Thijs Turèl is as AMS Program Manager part of the project team of Human Values for Smarter Cities. Next to AMS Thijs co-founded the Responsible Sensing Lab. The Responsible Sensing Lab explores how to integrate social values in the design of sensing systems in public space.
On February 16 the Responsible Sensing Lab celebrated it’s 2 year existence with a symposium at Pakhuis de Zwijger. During the event the participants talked about what responsible sensing means, and discussed what should be done to design better, more democratic, and more responsible digital future cities.
The first speaker Ger Baron discussed the current state of Smart Cities. Followed by a keynote from Prof. Dr.ir. Peter-Paul Verbeek about democratizing the ethics of smart cities and a talk show with Responsible Sensing Lab’s Thijs Turel and Sam Smits about the achievements of the Responsible Sensing Lab so far and a look ahead. The event finished with two research sessions, about the challenge of broad inclusion of citizens in living labs and about Contestable AI.