Critical Challenges and Interfaces to Autonomous Systems

[mozfest-bot]

[ ID ] b12e184f-e572-4b7b-9d83-d06be9bf5509

[ Submitter's Name ] Tommy Nillson [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] University of Nottingham

[ Space ] cities [ Secondary Space ]

[ Format ] learning-lab

Description

The complexity of the Internet of Things means that a growing number of tasks in the future smart home will have to be handed over to computational agents and autonomous systems. Automation is problematic however, creating risks to privacy and impacting trust. This proposal seeks to engage the Mozilla community in understanding the dilemmas that emerge when connected spaces become autonomous. Workshop participants will be introduced to a range of storyboards illustrating utopian and dystopian visions of a future autonomous home. By encouraging participants to reflect on these envisioned futures, our aim is to spark a discussion that will help uncover some of the critical challenges confronting autonomous systems and the kinds of interfaces that are needed by human beings to control these systems. In addition to making an engaging contribution to the Mozilla Festival, the results of the workshop will inform development of the Autonomous Internet of Things http://a-iot.org

Agenda

The session will take a workshop format, presenting and discussing a range of scenarios with participants. The session will be recorded on audio to enable subsequent analysis if the conversation with and between participants.

Participants

Whether 3 or 30 the format will be same, as outlined above.

Outcome

Key outcomes are participants insights into the challenges or dilemmas occasioned by autonomous systems and the controls they see as being important to put place. These outcomes will inform development of autonomous systems in the AIoT project http://a-iot.org

[thornet]

tentative fit for kitchen zone

[cubicgarden]

Great fit for the Home/Kitchen