ERCIM News No. 132 Special theme: "Cognitive AI and Cobots"

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ERCIM News No. 132 has just been published. This issue features a special theme "Cognitive AI and Cobots" showcasing remarkable achievements from research teams in Europe.  

This special theme was coordinated by our guest editors Theodore Patkos (ICS-FORTH) and Zsolt Viharos (SZTAKI).

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Cognitive Mimetics and Human Digital Twins – Towards Holistic AI Design
by Antero Karvonen (VTT) and Pertti Saariluoma (Jyväskylä University). p.17.

"Industry is just one example. AI will gradually change the way
people live and work and how society operates. Therefore, it
makes sense to develop AI design as a holistic process in
which social and technical aspects of intelligent technologies
can be simultaneously considered. Such new design practice
can be called holistic AI design. Cognitive mimetics and HDTs
provide key elements in such AI design." p.18.*

Cognitive Machine Argumentation
by Antonis Kakas (University of Cyprus). p.21.

Personalisation of Humanoid Robots: Serious Games for Older Adults Based on Biographical
Memories
by Benedetta Catricalà, Marco Manca, Fabio Paternò, Carmen Santoro and Eleonora Zedda (ISTI-CNR). p.28.

Food Waste Reduction in Healthcare – Challenges in Integrating Usage Data with Scorings
by Johann Steszgal (Steszgal Informationstechnologie GmbH), Peter Kieseberg (St. Pölten UAS) and, Andreas Holzinger (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna). p.37.
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Special Theme: "Data infrastructures and management". Submissions are welcome!

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*Hodges' model is ideal for initial scoping, planning, and holistic assurance throughout research, study processes and (case) formulation. The model provides ready-to-mind access to conceptual inter- multi- transdisciplinary bridges (even as we struggle to define the latter), e.g. socio-technical. 

Immediately preceding the above quotation, Karvonen and Saariluoma write:

"Arriving at this point via the cognitive mimetic route yields a deep and rich picture of human-technology co-agency in industrial processes." p.17.

A 'rich picture' (Checkland) is a feasible output of Hodges' model (extending Karvonen and Saariluoma's context). Clinically, this might comprise a 'comprehensive' assessment, or case formulation. It is bounded, guided by being situated, while the clinician's experience and patient's is built up across several encounters (appointments/home visits...). Unpopulated, initially (please see the template in the sidebar) the model serves as an aide-mémoire, an inner critical friend, helping to sustain values, and person-centredness. At a one-to-one(-group) level  integrated care, that is, parity of esteem across physical and mental health, a professional attitude and disposition to practise through unconditional positive regard remain key competencies. Each contact can act as its own 'reset', another blank sheet/slate: what can we learn together on this occasion? In some contexts this 'pause' can assist in risk management and safety - ensuring that the rich picture, and the knowledge gained thus far, does not mean things are taken for granted.

"Personalized learning has a number of levels ..." c/o MIT Technology Review

MIT Technology Review

"... There's a difference between adaptive learning and personalized learning," says Chris Dede, a professor at Harvard University in the Technology, Innovation, and Education Program. Squirrel is doing adaptive learning, which is about "understanding exactly what students know and don't know."But it pays no attention to what they want to know or how they learn best. Personalized learning takes their interests and and needs into account to "orchestrate the motivation and time for each student so they are able to make progress."

Jutta Treviranus, a professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design University who pioneered personalized learning to improve inclusivity in education, breaks it down into further. "Personalized learning has a number of levels," she says: she calls them pace, path, and destination.

If the pace of learning is personalized, students with different abilities are allowed different amounts of time to learn the same material. If the path is personalized, students might be given different motivations to reach the same objectives ("Here's why statistics is relevant to your love of baseball") and offered the material in different formats (e.g., video versus text). If the destination is personalized, students can choose, for instance, whether to learn with a vocational school or university in mind.

"We need students to understand their own learning. We need them to determine what they want to learn, and we need them to learn to learn," Treviranus says. "Squirrel AI doesn't address those things at all. It only make it more efficient to bring all of the students to the same standardized place." pp.27-28.

  Self - LEARNER - Person

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 INTERPERSONAL    :     SCIENCES               

HUMANITIES - ARTS ----------------------------------  SCIENCES

SOCIOLOGY  :   POLITICAL 

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Community - Group - Population

path destination purpose	pace destination path process
pace destination path practice	pace destination path policy

 

In the first instance Treviranus's three P's are located in what I feel are the most pertinent domains in bold and underlined. 'Path' is placed in the intra- interpersonal domain because as explained the learning must have meaning, sufficient to motivate the student. This might be global, sharing this domain with 'destination' as an overall goal (personal ambition - aspiration). As ever, having my cake and eating it ... what is the rationale for the secondary... occurrences? Let's take 'destination', first, in the sciences and political domains this may relate to a student's particular interest in a subject, or course of study to enter a profession at a specific university. In the sociology domain, what are the other influences on choice for the student's 'destination'? 

Individual choice is a great gift but only when it can be exercised, can it stand chance of being realised. In the group context, socially and politically is the 'path' and 'destination' (truly) open? The skills of teachers and mentors are key to the secondary execution of 'path'. Knowledge of the subject, technology, and as described the student allied with the latest educational research are essential. A teacher in a subject may prove an inspiration for a student: helping to generate an educational fusion.

'Pace' was placed in the sciences domain, to denote process, sequence, time; a curriculum delivered. In an exam there is no greater enemy than lack of time, but without the facts, knowledge, and insight to answer a question, time can make a mockery of us. Our 'pace' can also be noticed by our peers, which can be positive or negative socially and personally. 'Pace', is invariably political, as the calendar flicks whether by an analogue or digital turn. Outcomes and reports ultimately count.

The 4P's which I associate with each of the model's domains are italicised at the bottom of each domain.

Karen Hao, Born in China, taught by AI. MIT Technology Review - Allow me to introduce my selves, The Youth Issue. Volume 123, Issue 1. Jan/Feb 2020. pp.24-29.

It is interesting to reflect on the State's intervention in 2021 into tutoring and EdTech companies in China since this issue was published.

Book: Narrative Economics - "Happy Care-day to me!"

"Stories matter. It's a truism for journalists, but not much for economists. Robert Shiller, the Yale professor and Nobel laureate who predicted the housing crisis and also put behavioural economics on the map, aims to change that in a book dedicated to the thriving field of narrative economics."

Narrative Economics:
How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events

narrative medicine

INDIVIDUAL

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INTRA- INTER-PERSONAL : SCIENCES

HUMANISTIC -------------------------------------------------- MECHANISTIC

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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GROUP

(My) mental health (My) narrative	(My) physical health "While many economists are still busy creating mathematical formulas to decode and contextualise our supposedly "rational" behaviour -
... people's actions are more often based on human interest stories than hard data." narrative behavioural	(Who owns your story?) economics economics

"Novelty often catches on - Shiller explains how the "Happy birthday" song, which used the same tune as an earlier piece of music, was much more successful because it allows us to place our own name in the lyrics."

Just imagine if there was a tool in health care, social care, education - formative, professional and lifelong learning, that was generic and suited to personalisation whatever the context - whatever the name and story?

My life chances - my health career ...

Rana Foroohar, Stories of value, FT Weekend. Life&Arts, 2-3 November 2019, p.10.

GGI launches Special Interest Group on Governance at EHMA 2019

... with EHMA conference themes

individual - self

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic ----------------------------------------------- mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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group - population

personalisation (starts here?) identity (assured by self,  proxy, or advocate)	digital transformation (with socio-TECHNICAL benefits) sustainability (energy, amenities, transport, logistics; across all four domains and the spiritual dimension)
integration (social care, physical, mental health, across all four domains and including spiritual dimension) SOCIO-technical	Value-based care (measures, outcomes, policy development ...) Left to right: Andy Payne, Laura Botea and Ian Brandon at EHMA 2019 Annual Conference – Espoo, Finland.

Good Governance Institute – European Health Management Association (EHMA) Good Governance Institute Special Interest Group on Governance


My source:
https://twitter.com/GoodGovernInst/status/1145982812962590720

Yes, Nursing is both an Art and Science but ...

... we don't want facsimile care


individual

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic -- NURSING AS ART & SCIENCE -- mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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group

	iterate, iterate process, process repeat, repeat recurse
Pedro Paricio - 'The Duel' Halcyon Gallery, 1 July 2018

See also:

Pedro Paricio
[Dear Sir, Thank you for your amazing work and to Halcyon Gallery for the opportunity to view and photograph the above. Just a suggestion - the text on your site e.g. 'biography' is small and not very readable against the background.]

BBC News: NHS still reliant on 'archaic' fax machines

ERCIM News No. 114 Special Theme "Human-Robot Interaction"

ERCIM News 114

Dear ERCIM News Reader,

ERCIM News No. 114 has just been published at https://ercim-news.ercim.eu/

featuring the Special Theme"Human-Robot Interaction", coordinated by Serena Ivaldi (Inria) and Maria Pateraki (ICS-FORTH)

The section "Research and Innovation" reports on news about research activities and innovative developments from European research institutes.

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"Assistive robots and healthcare applications within the context of HRI are discussed in Cesta et al. (page 18), Hindriks et al. (page 20) and Efthimiou et al. (page 21). Cesta et al. present a cognitive architecture combining human perception and AI techniques to infer knowledge about the status of a user and the environment and plan personalised assistive robot actions for elderly people. Hindriks et al. report on their first experiments on a social robot that supports collection of patient data in a hospital, to reduce the workload of nurses. Efthimiou et al. are developing a multimodal user-centred HRI solution that encourages trust and acceptance of assistive robots for elderly people." p.7.

p. 35 Corpus Conversion Service: A Machine Learning Platform to Ingest Documents at Scale
by Michele Dolfi, Christoph Auer, Peter W J Staar and Costas Bekas (IBM Research Zurich)

Next issue:
No. 115  July 2018
Special Theme: "Digital Twins"

Person-centred care [PCC]: is it really happening? c/o National Voices

individual

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic --------------------------------------- mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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group

PCC = what’s important to the individual, is co-ordinated around their needs and involves them in decisions. "To be person-centred, that care needs to work together to wrap around all the needs of the individual in a holistic way. Sadly, our report found that neither the NHS nor adult social care can demonstrate co-ordination of care, despite ‘integrated care’ being a key goal of all national and local leaders over the past five to 10 years. The way health and care services work must change to reflect the needs of the population. It would be a start to recognise that co-ordination of care is an important factor, and that we need to be measuring whether it is happening."	(many) Definitions = 5 key indicators of pcc:  good information, good communication, involvement in decisions,  care co-ordination  and care planning. Service user reported data from 19 nat. surveys NHS:  in primary care, only 39% of patients said their GP was ‘very good’ at involving them in decisions. What’s more, personalised care planning doesn’t really happen. Only 3% of GP patients with one or more long-term conditions reported having a written care plan, suggesting that opportunities to deliver personalised care in the NHS are being missed.
"Personalisation of care is more advanced in adult social care than in the NHS, with 89% of adult social care users reporting that the care and support they received helped them to have control over their daily life. Similarly, 63% of people using a social care personal budget said that this had improved their ability to make everyday decisions. Participation and control of decisions is well-established in adult social care, with just over 90% of those using community adult social care saying they were involved in decisions about their care and support needs." (See original post - report for important additions)	20+ years policy  England Care Act 2014 National Voices coalition of health and care charities  report ‘Person-centred care in 2017' No National data on this... "It is clear from our report that a strategic overhaul of how care is measured is needed. Rather than single-service, single-setting, activity measures, more credence needs to be given to the experiences of the people who rely on services. Only then can we help local systems succeed in offering personalised, integrated and holistic care. Whilst there have been some advances in the delivery of person-centred care, there is still a long way to go before the policy rhetoric matches the reality experienced by people."