HOW WE FAILED TO PLAN FOR HABITABILITY

David Oliver: How can we plan for old age if we won't discuss it honestly?

Media depictions of ageing have become polarised. On the one hand we have skydiving grannies, marathon running granddads, and national treasures such as Judi Dench and David Attenborough. And then we have “The Elderly”—hapless victims of neglect, passive recipients of care, burdens on public services, and part of a “grey tsunami.” Over the past few months, an avalanche of articles and books has...

How do we plan movements?:A geometric answer

Human movement is essentially a complex phenomenon. When humans work closely with robots, understanding human motion using robot’s sensors is a very challenging problem. This is partially due to the lack of proper consensus among researchers on which representation to use in such situations. This extended abstract presents a novel kinematic framework to study human intention using hybrid twists...

Are we on the way towards design habitability?

2. You can feel like trying to get a coke out of a vending machine, you are having some problems with it, you are working hard and finally get your can. 3. You can feel like entering a room, the room contains only one chair, no other furniture, on the chair there is leaning a small board that has some writing on it, you are bending forward in order to read it, and it says: You are not welcome h...

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How to keep plan execution healthy ?

Developing a conflict-free plan for a multi-agent system in a complex and dynamic environment is a difficult task. Moreover, it is impossible to take into account all possible events that might occur during the execution of the plan. Unexpected events may cause a plan execution to lead to conflicts: we then say that the plan execution is unhealthy. This paper presents a new model that enables a...