Responsible robotics design-A systems approach to developing design guides for robotics in pasture-grazed dairy farming

Article Agriculture, Multidisciplinary

Farmer-centred design: An affordances-based framework for identifying processes that facilitate farmers as co-designers in addressing complex agricultural challenges

C. R. Eastwood et al.

Summary: This study describes the affordances of co-design tools and proposes an adapted framework for analyzing these affordances. The framework will benefit researchers in determining the co-design approach that fits their redesign challenges.

AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS (2022)

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Article Agriculture, Multidisciplinary

Automating Agroecology: How to Design a Farming Robot Without a Monocultural Mindset?

Lenora Ditzler et al.

Summary: This study explores the potential of robots in agroecological cropping systems and emphasizes the need to integrate the principles of agroecology into the design of automated tools. It suggests that rethinking automation is necessary in order to strike a balance between production goals and social and ecological concerns. The study highlights the importance of inclusive design processes and iterative design cycles that involve diverse actors and incorporate feedback from designers, practitioners, tools, and cropping systems.

JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL & ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS (2022)

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Article Geography

Good intentions in complex realities: Challenges for designing responsibly in digital agriculture in low-income countries

Mariette McCampbell et al.

Summary: This study contributes to debates on inclusive, participatory and responsible design by developing a framework for operationalising HCD and responsible innovation in practice, using a Rwandan case-study. The findings show that power relations and digital capacity negatively affect user inclusivity in design and highlight the importance of considering broader, long-term consequences of digital technologies in design processes. Responsible innovation theory needs to become cognizant of the complex realities in which digital innovations emerge for more responsible digital technology development.

SOCIOLOGIA RURALIS (2022)

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Article Environmental Studies

What are the priority research questions for digital agriculture?

Julie Ingram et al.

Summary: This study aims to identify key existing and emerging issues in digital agriculture and prioritize research questions through a participatory methodology. The study identifies 27 priority research questions across 7 themes and emphasizes the importance of value dimensions and social and institutional arrangements in supporting digital agriculture.

LAND USE POLICY (2022)

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Article Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence

Responsible artificial intelligence in agriculture requires systemic understanding of risks and externalities

Asaf Tzachor et al.

Summary: The rapid advancement and adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies offer great potential for global agriculture. AI applications in agriculture can improve crop management and productivity. However, the risks associated with machine learning models, expert systems, and autonomous machines in agriculture are not well understood and appreciated.

NATURE MACHINE INTELLIGENCE (2022)

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Article Geography

Perceptions of the Fourth Agricultural Revolution: What's In, What's Out, and What Consequences are Anticipated?

Hannah Barrett et al.

Summary: This article explores the association of technologies with the fourth agricultural revolution and investigates the perception and anticipated impacts of this revolution. The findings reveal that emergent, game-changing technologies are associated with the fourth agricultural revolution in media and policy documents. The benefits to productivity and the environment were prioritized, with less attention given to social consequences. However, the impacts were overwhelmingly presented positively, despite the fact that technologies also bring negative consequences.

SOCIOLOGIA RURALIS (2022)

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Article Agriculture, Multidisciplinary

Understanding the public attitudinal acceptance of digital farming technologies: a nationwide survey in Germany

Johanna Pfeiffer et al.

Summary: Research shows that the German public generally have a positive attitude towards the potential benefits of digital farming technologies, especially in terms of animal welfare and environmental protection. Most respondents also support increasing adoption rates of specific digital farming technologies with subsidies. Despite the overall positive attitude towards agriculture, many individuals expressed criticism after being confronted with the negative effects of digitalized agricultural production.

AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN VALUES (2021)

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Article Agricultural Economics & Policy

Viewpoint: The future of work in agri-food

Luc Christiaensen et al.

Summary: As countries develop, agriculture's role as a domestic employer decreases, but the broader agri-food system expands, creating new job opportunities beyond the farm. The advent of the digital revolution is reshaping the labor market, while issues such as agricultural trade and foreign labor face new challenges.

FOOD POLICY (2021)

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Article Geography

Digital transformation of agriculture and rural areas: A socio-cyber-physical system framework to support responsibilisation

Kelly Rijswijk et al.

Summary: Digital technologies are seen as an opportunity for sustainable development in agriculture and rural areas, but the transformation process can have various impacts that require responsible research and innovation approaches for better understanding and mitigation. A framework has been developed to gain insight on the relations between social, cyber, and physical aspects, and conditions for successful digital transformation have been described, focusing on design, access, and system complexity navigation. This framework provides a better understanding of moral responsibilities in digital transformation and helps identify who is responsible for the impacts.

JOURNAL OF RURAL STUDIES (2021)

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Article Ethics

A comparative, sociotechnical design perspective on Responsible Innovation: multidisciplinary research and education on digitized energy and Automated Vehicles

David J. Hess et al.

Summary: This study develops a comparative sociotechnical design perspective for interdisciplinary teams, focusing on technical and governance challenges and their interplay. With a triple comparative perspective, the research explores issues across different technological systems, societal implications, and continents, providing insights on values, solution portability, and policy harmonization potential. Through international collaboration, the study offers practical applications for research and teaching.

JOURNAL OF RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION (2021)

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Article Agriculture, Multidisciplinary

Revitalizing agricultural sciences with design sciences

Lorene Prost

Summary: This perspective article discusses the design issues in agricultural sciences and the importance of dialogue with design sciences. Through examples of Decision Support Systems design and agricultural systems design, the article highlights the methodological and conceptual contributions that design sciences can make to agricultural sciences. It emphasizes the need for design sciences to revitalize agricultural sciences in order to effectively support farmers and agricultural stakeholders on the path to sustainability.

AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS (2021)

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Article Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science

Legal Complexities of Animal Welfare in Australia: Do On-Animal Sensors Offer a Future Option?

Jaime Manning et al.

Summary: The concept of animal welfare has evolved to consider the physiological, behavioral, and health needs of animals, with internationally recognized frameworks like the five freedoms and five domains providing guidelines for evaluating practices. The use of technology has the potential to improve animal monitoring, management, and productivity, while also supporting legislative compliance and driving overall improvements in animal welfare.

ANIMALS (2021)

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Article Social Issues

The impact of automation and artificial intelligence on worker well-being

Luisa Nazareno et al.

Summary: The study found that automation risk has complex impacts on workers, reducing stress but possibly leading to worse health conditions and minimal or negative effects on job satisfaction. These impacts are more concentrated on workers facing the highest levels of automation risk.

TECHNOLOGY IN SOCIETY (2021)

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Article Social Issues

Design for well-being: The fourth generation of technology development

Mahdi Kafaee et al.

Summary: This paper explores the relationship between well-being and technology, dividing technology development into different generations. In the highest generation, technology development focuses on reducing side effects. The author introduces the fourth generation of technology development, where well-being is the main criterion in the design process. The pursuit of physical pleasure and convenience in modern society can decrease well-being, so considering well-being as the ultimate goal in technology development is suggested.

TECHNOLOGY IN SOCIETY (2021)

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Review Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science

Review: Anticipating alternative trajectories for responsible Agriculture 4.0 innovation in livestock systems

C. R. Eastwood et al.

Summary: This paper discusses the impact of technological change on livestock systems and emphasizes that digital technologies are leading the development of the fourth agricultural revolution. Future trajectories for achieving sustainability and animal welfare outcomes in Agriculture 4.0 are proposed, with an emphasis on the importance of responsible innovation processes.

ANIMAL (2021)

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Article Green & Sustainable Science & Technology

Digital Agriculture and Labor: A Few Challenges for Social Sustainability

Louisa Prause

Summary: Academic and political discussions on the digitalization of agriculture have mainly focused on ecological sustainability, neglecting social sustainability aspects, particularly labor. Digital technologies are bringing new forms of labor control and intensification of work processes, with risks of working-class fragmentation along age lines. The importance of designing agricultural policies that foster fair and equitable working conditions is emphasized in the results.

SUSTAINABILITY (2021)

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Article Geography

Robot-ready: How apple producers are assembling in anticipation of new AI robotics

Katharine Legun et al.

Summary: This paper discusses how apple growers are anticipating new robotic technologies and how they are practically assembling their orchards in preparation, and how these actions impact ecological systems, labor relations, and farm capitalization.

JOURNAL OF RURAL STUDIES (2021)

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Article Environmental Studies

Agriculture 4.0: Making it work for people, production, and the planet

David Christian Rose et al.

Summary: This article emphasizes the importance of incorporating social sustainability into agricultural revolutions, proposing a framework of multi-actor co-innovation to guide responsible socio-technical transitions. By increasing the involvement of people in agricultural innovation systems and following responsible innovation principles, the likelihood of achieving social sustainability in this technological revolution can be enhanced.

LAND USE POLICY (2021)

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Article Agriculture, Multidisciplinary