{"id":77445,"date":"2025-07-03T00:27:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T04:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?p=77445"},"modified":"2025-07-03T00:27:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T04:27:18","slug":"ai-powered-assistive-technologies-are-changing-how-we-experience-and-imagine-public-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/ai-powered-assistive-technologies-are-changing-how-we-experience-and-imagine-public-space\/","title":{"rendered":"AI-powered assistive technologies are changing how we experience and imagine public space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-77446\" src=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/wearables-and-AI.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/wearables-and-AI.jpeg 680w, https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/wearables-and-AI-250x141.jpeg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>New applications and the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) with wearable devices are changing the way users interact with their environments and each other. The impacts and reach of these new technologies have yet to be fully understood.<\/p>\n<p>Connections between technologies and bodies is not a new thing for many disabled persons. Assistive technologies \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/fact-sheets\/detail\/assistive-technology\">tools and products designed to support people with disabilities<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 have played a part in mitigating built and institutional barriers experienced by disabled persons for decades.<\/p>\n<p>While not strictly considered assistive, immersive and wearable technologies have the potential to change the relationship between disabled users and their experience of place.<\/p>\n<p>For example,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=606Dzgwxl2c\">Ray-Ban\u2019s Meta glasses<\/a>\u00a0use AI to describe what the cameras are capturing using the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bemyeyes.com\/blog\/introducing-be-my-eyes-virtual-volunteer\">Be My Eyes app<\/a>. Using OpenAI\u2019s large language model, ChatGPT, this effectively turns a user\u2019s smart phone into a vision assistant.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond wearables, some technologies are more closely tied to or integrated with the body. Examples include\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucsf.edu\/news\/2023\/08\/425986\/how-artificial-intelligence-gave-paralyzed-woman-her-voice-back\">brain-computer interfaces<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/card\/2024\/05\/26\/technology\/ai-prosthetic-arm\">AI-enabled prosthetics<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sunnybrook.ca\/content\/?page=bone-anchored-hearing-aid-baha-information\">bone-anchored hearing aids<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The availability and production of environmental data from these technologies may impact how we relate to each other, how we move through and understand space, and how we engage with the physical environment around us at any given moment.<br \/>\n<center><iframe width=\"699\" height=\"393\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EG2YcVeyTNY\" title=\"Apple Vision Pro: Comprehensive Review for the Blind and Visually Impaired #AccessibilityReview\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re at a critical juncture where AI-enabled technologies used by individuals may profoundly impact our urban futures.<\/p>\n<p>What happens, for example, when wearables make any \u201cplace\u201d a digital work or play place? What does a largely private-sector, consumer-driven, AI-enabled digital intervention into a city\u2019s spaces mean for planning, zoning and taxation? What are the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unep.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/ai-has-environmental-problem-heres-what-world-can-do-about\">environmental costs of the global AI project<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>And crucially, who gets to participate in this digital reimagining?<\/p>\n<h4><strong>AI and the city<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>While access can be challenging \u2014 wearables are often costly \u2014 ableist thinking regarding the use of technology to render invisible Blind and\/or Deaf people and culture is also a problem. Some people might naively assume that all Blind and Deaf people are universally seeking a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/article\/2024\/may\/13\/deafness-cure-medical-trial-hearing-loss\">bio-technological \u201cmiracle<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are also other challenges: how a technology captures or describes its data may not match up to a user\u2019s pre-existing sense of place. Moreover, access to tech can produce some unintended consequences, including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/limpingchicken.com\/2023\/06\/08\/lisa-davies-the-rise-of-technology-has-unfortunately-affected-the-amount-of-deaf-people-socialising-in-person\/\">the erosion of in-person community building among disabled people<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hearing loss of some kind\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iris.who.int\/bitstream\/handle\/10665\/339956\/9789240021570-eng.pdf?sequence=1\">affects around 1.5 billion people<\/a>: I am one of those people. I am a disability studies scholar who wears\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nidcd.nih.gov\/health\/hearing-aids\">behind-the-ear hearing aids<\/a>\u00a0to augment my hearing experience.<\/p>\n<p>My hearing aids use AI and machine learning to sense and adjust my sound environment. They help me cope with the ways in which the places of my everyday life \u2014 such as my home or the lecture hall \u2014 are generally\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1057\/dev.2008.17\">configured for people without hearing loss<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When I use my hearing aids, I find that the city has never sounded so wonderful, and yet sometimes irritatingly loud. The sound of birds is one thing; the grinding sound of a breaking subway is another entirely.<\/p>\n<p>Cumulative exposure to noisy indoor and outdoor places of the city poses\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/23748834.2019.1577204\">auditory health risks<\/a>, such as noise-induced hearing loss or tinnitus, and can contribute to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/crmjdm2m4yjo\">poor health more broadly<\/a>. I have to be careful about ongoing noise exposure, and by adjusting the volume of my hearing aids, I can turn down the city when I want to.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Future bodies and urban futures<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>AI-powered technologies can exacerbate issues of access, privilege and freedom of movement. This happens both through who is able to purchase and use devices, as well as through\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/d41586-018-05469-3\">data and their applications<\/a>. Data may be\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ruhabenjamin.com\/race-after-technology\">biased in terms of race<\/a>, gender, sexuality and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ainowinstitute.org\/publication\/disabilitybiasai-2019\">disability<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s00146-023-01735-9\">Scientific research<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/philpapers.org\/rec\/DELHRL\">media representations<\/a>\u00a0tend to highlight the benevolent possibilities of technologies for \u201crepairing\u201d bodies conceived as being functionally medically deficient.<\/p>\n<p>Much less is said about disabled persons controlling the narrative, taking up key roles in the messy terrain of AI, machine learning and data governance, and in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/14649357.2022.2035545\">planning and design<\/a>\u00a0of future cities.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Digital modelling<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>We are also witnessing growing interest in the digital twinning \u2014 creating highly accurate digital models \u2014 of everything from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineering.com\/elite-marathoners-heart-beats-in-a-digital-twin\/\">human hearts<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_yFCl0MHUcQ\">entire cities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Whether rendered at the scale of the body or city, the motivation for twinning appears centred on planning and performance optimization \u2014 a quest for perfection. Like any model, we are dealing with an abstraction from reality. City twins seem to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/despite-legislative-progress-accessible-cities-remain-elusive-218495\">fail to capture many of the fine grain environmental barriers experienced by disabled persons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Ownership limits<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Not everyone can, should or wishes to be technologically \u201cassisted\u201d or augmented. There are medical, identity and culture, affordability, legal,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/10400435.2019.1593259\">moral and ethical<\/a>\u00a0concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Other issues raised by brain-computer interface research, for example, include concerns about legal capacity and ownership of the self, including ownership of device-generated data.<\/p>\n<p>In a study on the impact of neural technologies, researchers shared the legal repercussions relating to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/doi.org\/10.1088\/1741-2552\/ab39cd\">two disabled people deprived of voting rights in Spain<\/a>. The person who recovered the ability to communicate autonomously using their finger and a computer had their rights restored, while the other, who used a human intermediary, did not.<\/p>\n<p>Legal questions also arise regarding\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/1037969X241233349\">how liability is assigned when augmented bodies are injured or cause injuries to others<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Where does the person end and the technology begin, and vice versa? Who gets to decide?<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Future technologies<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>As the use of AI and assistive technologies increases in everyday urban life, we will need to address these questions sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n<p>And if disabled persons are not adequately involved in these discussions and decisions, then cities will be less \u2014 rather than more \u2014 accessible.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Author Bio:<\/strong> Ron Buliung is Professor, Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New applications and the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) with wearable devices are changing the way users interact with their environments and each other. The impacts and reach of these new technologies have yet to be fully understood. Connections between technologies and bodies is not a new thing for many disabled persons. 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