Oversight for agentic AI is often discussed as a single goal ("human control"), yet early adoption may produce role-specific expectations. We present a comparative analysis of two newly active Reddit communities in Jan--Feb 2026 that reflect different socio-technical roles: r/OpenClaw (deployment and operations) and r/Moltbook (agent-centered social interaction). We conceptualize this period as an early-stage crystallization phase, where oversight expectations form before norms reach equilibrium. Using topic modeling in a shared comparison space, a coarse-grained oversight-theme abstraction, engagement-weighted salience, and divergence tests, we show the communities are strongly separable (JSD =0.418, cosine =0.372, permutation $p=0.0005$). Across both communities, "human control" is an anchor term, but its operational meaning diverges: r/OpenClaw} emphasizes execution guardrails and recovery (action-risk), while r/Moltbook} emphasizes identity, legitimacy, and accountability in public interaction (meaning-risk). The resulting distinction offers a portable lens for designing and evaluating oversight mechanisms that match agent role, rather than applying one-size-fits-all control policies.
Federica Castellano, Michael Tophøj Sørensen, Janni Sørensen
Abstract Urban regeneration (UR) has emerged as a comprehensive term to describe strategies that seek to address challenges of urbanization and work towards related sustainability goals outlined in the 2030 Agenda. This article presents a comparative analysis of the legal frameworks in Denmark and Italy that relates to fostering UR, thereby informing the developing definition of the concept UR, with knowledge about international and European legislation. This research identifies 9 key dimensions that shape the effectiveness and efficiency. The study highlights that an integrated approach addressing all 9 aspects is essential to positioning UR as a truly transformative process, capable of rethinking cities as sustainable, resilient spaces. The analysis concludes by emphasizing the importance of a coordinated framework across member states to realise the full potential of UR in the European context, thereby providing valuable insights and leverage for policymakers and legislators in efforts to promote sustainable cities.
Cities. Urban geography, Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology
This chapter explores human creativity in AI-assisted learning environments through the lens of student agency. We begin by examining four theoretical perspectives on agency, including instrumental, effortful, dynamically emergent, and authorial agency, and analyze how each frames the relationship between agency and creativity. Under each theoretical perspective, we discuss how the integration of generative AI (GenAI) tools reshapes these dynamics by altering students' roles in cognitive, social, and creative processes. In the second part, we introduce a theoretical framework for AI agentic engagement, contextualizing agency within specific cognitive, relational, and ethical dynamics introduced by GenAI tools. This framework is linked to the concept of Mini-c creativity, emphasizing personal relevance and self-directed learning. Together, these perspectives support a shift from viewing creativity as product-oriented to understanding it as a process of agentive participation and meaning-making. We conclude with two directions for future research focused on the creative process and performance in AI-assisted learning.
Precision Medicine (PM) transforms the traditional "one-drug-fits-all" paradigm by customising treatments based on individual characteristics, and is an emerging topic for HCI research on digital health. A key element of PM, the Polygenic Risk Score (PRS), uses genetic data to predict an individual's disease risk. Despite its potential, PRS faces barriers to adoption, such as data inclusivity, psychological impact, and public trust. We conducted a mixed-methods study to explore how people perceive PRS, formed of surveys (n=254) and interviews (n=11) with UK-based participants. The interviews were supplemented by interactive storyboards with the ContraVision technique to provoke deeper reflection and discussion. We identified ten key barriers and five themes to PRS adoption and proposed design implications for a responsible PRS framework. To address the complexities of PRS and enhance broader PM practices, we introduce the term Human-Precision Medicine Interaction (HPMI), which integrates, adapts, and extends HCI approaches to better meet these challenges.
Recent studies suggest that while generative AI (GenAI) can enhance individual creativity, it often reduces the diversity of collective outputs. A well-known example of this homogenization effect is by Doshi and Hauser (2024) who found that GenAI-generated plot ideas improved story writing creativity but led to convergence across writers' outputs. This study extends their experiment, identifying the design choices behind the apparent creativity-diversity trade-off. In Phase 1, we used structured prompting with 10 diverse GenAI personas to generate 300 story plots, and confirmed the plots' diversity using text embedding analysis. In Phase 2, participants wrote stories with or without access to these plots. Results show that diverse GenAI inputs can preserve story diversity compared to a human-only baseline, with some evidence of enhancement in the 1-plot condition. Beyond addressing the diversity component of the trade-off, our findings offer broader insights for human-AI system design. Our findings suggest that the trade-off may emerge from uniform deployment practices rather than from an inherent limitation of GenAI, and that diversity can be intentionally built into AI-mediated collaboration. Our study highlights the risks of over-standardization, the importance of prompt variation, and the value of treating GenAI not as a static tool but as a configurable partner. These insights have important implications for the design of GenAI systems that support, not constrain, collective creativity.
Rune Møberg Jacobsen, Joel Wester, Helena Bøjer Djernæs
et al.
This paper investigates the impact of artificial intelligence integration on remote operations, emphasising its influence on both distributed and team cognition. As remote operations increasingly rely on digital interfaces, sensors, and networked communication, AI-driven systems transform decision-making processes across domains such as air traffic control, industrial automation, and intelligent ports. However, the integration of AI introduces significant challenges, including the reconfiguration of human-AI team cognition, the need for adaptive AI memory that aligns with human distributed cognition, and the design of AI fallback operators to maintain continuity during communication disruptions. Drawing on theories of distributed and team cognition, we analyse how cognitive overload, loss of situational awareness, and impaired team coordination may arise in AI-supported environments. Based on real-world intelligent port scenarios, we propose research directions that aim to safeguard human reasoning and enhance collaborative decision-making in AI-augmented remote operations.
Safira Anisa Dewi, Maulia Gitawati Indiswari, Rhein Sasi Kirana
et al.
Pondok Pesantren Darussalam Torjun is addressing the high incidence of early marriages, which significantly impact students' education. Data shows that 41 percent of women in Torjun Village marry before 21, leading to issues like low educational attainment, health risks, and economic challenges. To combat this, a cultural intervention program, BHUPPA-BHABHU-GHURU-RATO, was developed in collaboration with partners. The program aims to increase students' knowledge about early marriage and assertive communication, raise parental awareness of early marriage impacts, and provide a curriculum and educational media on the subject. The initiative targets 77 students, 20 parents, 5 school administrators, health center staff, religious affairs office staff, and the sub-district head. The methods include psychoeducation and the dissemination of curriculum and educational media. The program comprises two parts: community empowerment, involving activities for students, parents, school administrators, and government officials, and cadre development, focusing on peer counseling and persuasive communication training. Results showed a 16 percent increase in students' understanding of early marriage dangers, a 3 percent increase in assertive communication knowledge, and a 10 percent increase in parental awareness. The program's sustainability is supported by curriculum integration, the use of educational media, and the Anti-Early Marriage Knights system.
Irwan Djumat, Syahril Muhammad, Hasmawati Hasmawati
et al.
Sampah merupakan bagian dari kehidupan manusia. Sampah adalah benda-benda sisa yang tidak terpakai dan seharusnya mendapatkan perhatian serta penanganan yang serius. Akibatnya kerap terjadi bencana ekologi akibat kekurangseriusan manusia dalam mengelola sampah. Banjir dan penyakit yang timbul dari tumpukan sampah setidaknya bisa diminimalisir dengan aksi nyata berupa bakti sosial seperti bersih-bersih lingkungan. Oleh karena itu, kami tim dosen dan mahasiswa dari Program Studi (Prodi) Pendidikan Pancasila dan Kewarganegaraan (PPKn) Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan (FKIP) Universitas Khairun mengadakan Pengabdian Kepada Masyarakat (PKM) dengan tema “Aksi Peduli Lingkungan untuk Masyarakat Pesisir Di Kelurahan Maitara Selatan Kota Tidore Kepulauan”. Tujuannya untuk memotivasi masyarakat setempat agar mempunyai sikap peduli dan karakter yang baik (good character) dalam kehidupan sehari-hari. Adapun langkah-langkah kegiatan ini dimulai dari observasi lokasi, koordinasi dengan pemangku wilayahsetempat, pelaksanaan, serta evaluasi. Hasilnya adalah perubahan kondisi lingkungan setempat yang semakin asri dan sehat. Hal ini akan memberi pengaruh pada kehidupan jangka panjang dengan anak cucu sebagai generasi pewaris, karena mereka akan menikmati buah dari kepeduliannya terhadap lingkungan. Menjadi warga negara yang sehat, yang kuat, karena literasi lingkungannya telah dibelajarkan oleh generasi tua sejak dini.
Ivan Durango, Jose A. Gallud, Victor M. R. Penichet
In an age defined by rapid data expansion, the connection between individuals and their digital footprints has become more intricate. The Human-Data Interaction (HDI) framework has become an essential approach to tackling the challenges and ethical issues associated with data governance and utilization in the modern digital world. This paper outlines the fundamental steps required for organizations to seamlessly integrate HDI principles, emphasizing auditing, aligning, formulating considerations, and the need for continuous monitoring and adaptation. Through a thorough audit, organizations can critically assess their current data management practices, trace the data lifecycle from collection to disposal, and evaluate the effectiveness of existing policies, security protocols, and user interfaces. The next step involves aligning these practices with the main HDI principles, such as informed consent, data transparency, user control, algorithm transparency, and ethical data use, to identify gaps that need strategic action. Formulating preliminary considerations includes developing policies and technical solutions to close identified gaps, ensuring that these practices not only meet legal standards, but also promote fairness and accountability in data interactions. The final step, monitoring and adaptation, highlights the need for setting up continuous evaluation mechanisms and being responsive to technological, regulatory, and societal developments, ensuring HDI practices stay up-to-date and effective. Successful implementation of the HDI framework requires multi-disciplinary collaboration, incorporating insights from technology, law, ethics, and user experience design. The paper posits that this comprehensive approach is vital for building trust and legitimacy in digital environments, ultimately leading to more ethical, transparent, and user-centric data interactions.
Mirroring non-verbal social cues such as affect or movement can enhance human-human and human-robot interactions in the real world. The robotic platforms and control methods also impact people's perception of human-robot interaction. However, limited studies have compared robot imitation across different platforms and control methods. Our research addresses this gap by conducting two experiments comparing people's perception of affective mirroring between the iCub and Pepper robots and movement mirroring between vision-based iCub control and Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU)-based iCub control. We discovered that the iCub robot was perceived as more humanlike than the Pepper robot when mirroring affect. A vision-based controlled iCub outperformed the IMU-based controlled one in the movement mirroring task. Our findings suggest that different robotic platforms impact people's perception of robots' mirroring during HRI. The control method also contributes to the robot's mirroring performance. Our work sheds light on the design and application of different humanoid robots in the real world.
Of the 958 settlements founded in North America since the Amish arrived in the 1730s, 272 are now extinct. This research note provides a summary of those failures to sustain the life of an Amish community, and includes an appendix listing settlement extinctions by state and in chronological order. The article concludes with a discussion about the value of understanding community failures as an important, but often ignored, dimension of the Amish story in North America.
تتسم المدن بالتغير المستمر بشكل تكيفي لتتجاوز الأزمات الطبيعية والمجتمعية التي تواجهها، يتم هذا التغير والتطور باستحداث آليات متنوعة لمواكبة التغير المستمر. وشهدت مصر سلسلة من التغيرات والتحديات الاقتصادية الاجتماعية، ومن أحدث ما واجهته مصر والعالم جائحة فيروس كورونا المستجد (كوفيد-19). وتعد المجتمعات ذات الدخل المنخفض الأكثر تأثراً بالأزمات والتغيرات والأقل قدره على معالجة التغيرات والتكيف معها، ووفقاً لتقديرات البنك الدولي لعام 2020 بلغت نسبة السكان ذوي الدخل المنخفض بمصر نحو 26.1%.
تعتمد زيادة قدرة المجتمعات وخاصة ذات الدخل المنخفض على التكيف ومواجهة الأزمات على أسباب متعددة، أحد أهمها مدى فعالية منظومة ادارة العمران. وتساهم الحوكمة التكيفية في تمكين المجتمعات المحلية للتصدي للأزمات سواء المحلية أو العالمية، وفي تحقيق المرونة وتعزيز قدرة المجتمع على التكيف بفاعلية مع المتغيرات المختلفة. لذا يهدف البحث للتوصل لكيفية دمج أبعاد الحوكمة التكيفية بمنظومة إدارة العمران بمؤسسات التنمية العمرانية بمصر خاصة لمشروعات تنمية المجتمعات ذات الدخل المنخفض. وتحديد أوجه القوة التي تساهم في إمكانية تطبيقها وأوجه القصور الواجب مراعاتها وتحسينها.
للوصول لذلك الهدف يقوم البحث بالتعرف على مفهوم الحوكمة التكيفية وأبعادها والنماذج النظرية المتعلقة بها بالمراجعة التحليلية للدراسات النظرية، بالإضافة إلى تحليل نماذج من التجارب العالمية المطبقة لمعايير الحوكمة التكيفية، لتحديد مدى امكانية تطبيق تلك المعايير بمؤسسات التنمية العمرانية بمصر، كما تم اجراء استبيان للخبراء بمجال التخطيط العمراني وإدارة العمران لتحديد أولويات تطبيق معايير الحوكمة التكيفية بالسياق المصري. وتتلخص نتائج البحث في الوصول لإطار لتطبيق الحوكمة التكيفية بمؤسسات التنمية العمرانية بمصر، والذي قد يساهم في تحسين أوضاع المجتمعات ذات الدخل المنخفض لتكون اكثر مرونة وقدرة على التكيف والصمود ضمن الإطار المؤسسي لإدارة العمران بمصر.
Cities are constantly adapting to deal with the natural and societal crises they are experiencing. This adaptation requires developing various mechanisms to keep pace with ongoing changes. Egypt has experienced a range of social and economic changes and challenges. (COVID-19) is the most recent crisis in Egypt and the whole world. Low-income communities are the most affected by crises and changes while being the least able to adapt to them, furthermore, Egypt's low-income population was about 26.1% according to the World Bank estimation for 2020.
Achieving more resilient communities, particularly low-income, is dependent on multiple factors. The efficiency of the urban management system is one of the most crucial factors, Adaptive governance empowers communities to respond to both local and global crises, increases resilience, and enhances society's ability to adapt to changing factors.
The research aims to examine how to integrate the adaptive governance aspects in the management system of Egyptian urban development institutions, especially for low-income community development projects. In addition, identify the strengths and weaknesses of applying adaptive governance.
Based on the analytical theoretical approach the research reviews literature of adaptive governance definition, aspects, and theoretical models. International case studies have been selected and analyzed to determine the applicability of adaptive governance indicators to Egyptian urban development institutions. In addition, an expert questionnaire was conducted as an empirical study, to examine ranking of the adaptive governance indicators according to priority in the Egyptian context. The paper ends with a framework for adaptive governance application in the Egyptian urban development institutions. Which could be applied and enhanced the resilience of the low-income communities.
Cities. Urban geography, Urbanization. City and country
Catholijn M. Jonker, Luciano Cavalcante Siebert, Pradeep K. Murukannaiah
With the growing capabilities and pervasiveness of AI systems, societies must collectively choose between reduced human autonomy, endangered democracies and limited human rights, and AI that is aligned to human and social values, nurturing collaboration, resilience, knowledge and ethical behaviour. In this chapter, we introduce the notion of self-reflective AI systems for meaningful human control over AI systems. Focusing on decision support systems, we propose a framework that integrates knowledge from psychology and philosophy with formal reasoning methods and machine learning approaches to create AI systems responsive to human values and social norms. We also propose a possible research approach to design and develop self-reflective capability in AI systems. Finally, we argue that self-reflective AI systems can lead to self-reflective hybrid systems (human + AI), thus increasing meaningful human control and empowering human moral reasoning by providing comprehensible information and insights on possible human moral blind spots.
Derlis Salinas Rodríguez, Ana Paola González Burgo
The enormous advances in women’s training and their interest in continuing to participate in the labor market could lead to the early disappearance of the traditional inequalities between women and men in the labor market. Still, the fact is that it has not occurred thus. In other words, the dramatic transformation of women’s labor supply has not translated into an equivalent improvement in their position in the labor market. If you look at the different inequality indicators, you see that the situation has evolved, but the data are stubborn and the differences persistent. And these inequalities seem more unjust today than yesterday, precisely because of the enormous effort made by women, says Larrañaga (2005). Decent work deficits and gender inequality gaps persist in labor participation, occupational segregation, income, job insecurity, women’s participation in decision-making positions, influence and power, and the distribution of unpaid time spent by men and women caring for the family. This paper proposes a quantitative methodology using the data presented in the Permanent Comparable Household Survey of 2021, focused on the age group of 21 to 50 years. This paper aims to analyze and highlight the differen ces between men and women in the labor market and to find the main factors that determine the inequality gap in the inactivity rate or what situations or data may contribute to explaining the high percentage of inactivity in women between 21 and 50 years of age compared to men. On average, women between the ages of 21 and 50 have a 24% higher inactivity rate than men.
Economic growth, development, planning, Human settlements. Communities
This research investigation explores how, through the use of architectural narrative informed by translation theory, the built environment can be conceived and imagined as a vessel linking the past with the present and future, in turn solidifying a stronger sense of place-duration within human settlements. The project argues that by consolidating these links in post-industrial sites, visitors and residents can be better equipped to understand their unique contexts while being provided with stronger forms of place-engagement for surviving communities.
The township of Waihi, at the base of the Coromandel Peninsula, has a mining history spanning three centuries. Here, the land has been inexorably violated in the search for gold and silver. Mining operations are planned to continue through until 2035 when the landscape, exhausted of extractable mineral worth, will then begin a stage of rehabilitation. This design-led investigation envisages Waihi and its post-industrial potential at this point. The research proposes an axial intervention spanning mine, town and adjacent maunga or mountain, on which are threaded and counterposed various architecture ‘moments’ that speak to diverse temporalities and narrative histories. These rehabilitation efforts anticipate an ‘afterlife’ capable of emerging from, and in key ways overcoming, the scars and truncated memories accruing in this place. The result imagines an architecture where stories of the changing landscape can sustain long into the future.
Teshome Bekana, Endegena Abebe, Zeleke Mekonnen
et al.
Abstract Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease that disproportionately affects the poorest people in tropical and subtropical countries. It is a major parasitic disease causing considerable morbidity in Ethiopia. Despite significant control efforts, schistosomiasis transmission is still widespread in many rural areas of the country. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and intensity of intestinal schistosomiasis among schoolchildren, as well as to identify schistosomiasis transmission sites in Gomma District, southwestern Ethiopia. Between October 2018 and September 2019, cross-sectional parasitological and malacological surveys were conducted in the study area. The study comprised 492 school-children aged 6 to 15 years old from four primary schools in Gomma District. To identify and quantify eggs of Schistosoma mansoni from the children, stool specimens were collected and processed using double Kato-Katz thick smears. Water bodies adjacent to human settlements in the study area were surveyed for snail intermediate hosts of S. mansoni. Morphological identification of collected snails was conducted, followed by examining their infection status using a dissecting microscope. The overall prevalence of S. mansoni infection was 73.8% (95%CI: 69.9–77.7%) and 41.6% of them had moderate-to-heavy infections. The prevalence of S. mansoni infection differed considerably by age group, with the older age groups (12–15) having a higher prevalence than the younger age groups (6–11) (p < 0.001). The prevalence of infection also varied significantly among schools; Dedo Ureche had the highest prevalence (86.9%) (p = 0.034), while Goga Kilole had relatively the lowest prevalence of S. mansoni infection (59.6%) (p = 0.003). A total of 1463 Biomphalaria pfeifferi snails were collected from 11 survey sites throughout the study area, with 357 (24.4%) of the snails shedding schistosomes cercariae. Despite intensified efforts to scale up mass drug administration in Ethiopia, this study reported high levels of S. mansoni infection among schoolchildren and snail intermediate hosts in rural communities in Gomma. Such a high infection rate warrants pressing needs for targeted and integrated interventions to control the disease in the area.