This paper offers a critical review on conditions and impacts of AI/ML in society, with a
dedicated overview of the European AI policy framework. Through the analysis of policy …

This paper reviews the findings of several engineering researchers and practitioners on the
topic of design for the developing world. We arrange these findings into nine guiding …

Many innovation projects are currently organized as co-design processes (ie, as processes
of creative cooperation). The term codesign can refer, for example, to the organizing of open …

Have you ever hit the big blue button to activate automatic doors? Have you ever used an
ergonomic kitchen tool? Have you ever used curb cuts to roll a stroller across an …

Experts seem to agree that in the past decades little scholarly attention has been paid in
development and design scholarship to ethics and global justice issues. The subject is …

This article critically appraises 'engineering for development'initiatives and seeks to imagine
new models of interaction that incorporate social justice goals more effectively. In recent …

Background Problem solving is considered to be a central activity of engineering practice.
While some studies have shown how various beliefs affect students' abilities to solve …

Health technology is a pivotal locus of change and controversy in health care systems, and
The Problem of Health Technology offers a comprehensive and novel analysis of the topic …

Design toolkits that aim to to promote equity offer designers simplified approaches to
creating more equitable technology. However, it is important to understand how equity is …

A human-centered design thinking approach has been applied to a course at the MIT D-Lab
on creating low-cost prosthetic and assistive devices for the developing world. Teams of …