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Envisioning Uncertain Futures
This book contains a collection of projects and scenarios dealing with new risks from emerging technologies, future peace keeping operations, and water distribution issues by combining analysis with dialogue. Special attention is paid to the methodology of narrative scenarios, and the role of imagination in the generation of these scenarios. Appearing as short stories, narrative scenarios include a great amount of explicit and implicit knowledge and they need story telling skills to become consistent, coherent as well as compelling and convincing pictures of the future.
Terrorism and the Internet
Intends to analyze the abuse of the internet for terrorism and crime purposes under two new perspectives: the persuasion and involvement of women and children as specific target user groups, and the development of new strategies to use extremist web forums as an open book in order to understand and gain insight into terrorist thinking.
Urban Disaster Resilience and Security
This edited book investigates the interrelations of disaster impacts, resilience and security in an urban context. Urban as a term captures megacities, cities, and generally, human settlements, that are characterised by concentration of quantifiable and non-quantifiable subjects, objects and value attributions to them. The scope is to narrow down resilience from an all-encompassing concept to applied ways of scientifically attempting to ‚measure’ this type of disaster related resilience. 28 chapters in this book reflect opportunities and doubts of the disaster risk science community regarding this ‚measurability’. Therefore, examples utilising both quantitative and qualitative approa...
Standards of Futures Research
Foresight, futures studies, but also technology assessment and trend research are characterized by a research perspective directed towards the future. These results in fundamental peculiarities have to be taken into account in the conception of studies and in practical research work. The contributions to this anthology offer guidance for scientists and practitioners and describe the criteria and standards by which the quality of results and processes in futures studies can be assessed.
Beyond Tomorrow
Shows German Science Fiction's connections with utopian thought, and how it attempts Zukunftsbewältigung: coping with an uncertain but also unwritten future.
Standards und Gütekriterien der Zukunftsforschung
Zukunftsforschung, Foresight, Futures Studies, aber auch Technikfolgenabschätzung und Trendforschung zeichnen sich durch eine auf die Zukunft gerichtete Forschungsperspektive aus. Daraus ergeben sich grundsätzliche Besonderheiten, die es bei der Konzeption von Studien und der praktischen Forschungsarbeit zu berücksichtigen gilt. Die Beitragsautorinnen und -autoren bieten eine Orientierungshilfe und beschreiben die Gütekriterien und Standards, an denen die Qualität von Ergebnissen und Prozessen der Zukunftsforschung festgemacht werden kann.
Roboter für Assistenzfunktionen : Konzeptstudien für die Interaktion in der Praxis
Der Einsatz von aktuellen Robotertechnologien im Alltag wird zunehmend möglich. Doch es ergeben sich Herausforderungen: Sicherheit, rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen, Zuverlässigkeit und Geschäftsmodelle müssen unter speziellen Bedingungen betrachtet werden. Auch Akzeptanz und Interaktion zwischen Mensch und Roboter sind zentral für den Erfolg. Dieser Sammelband fasst 15 Studien aus der BMBF Förderlinie “Roboter für Assistenzfunktionen: Interaktion in der Praxis” zusammen. - The performance and flexibility of robot technologies make it possible to bring robots to everyday life. This creates many challenges: safety, legal regulations, reliability, reusability, and business models must be considered under special conditions. The acceptance and interaction of humans and robots are of central importance for the success of the applications. This collection summarises 15 studies from the BMBF-funded program "Robots for Assistance: Interaction in the Field."
