Digitalising for sense-making
Date and time: 16 January 2025, 13:00-14:00
Speaker: Dr Luis de Miranda, Stockholm School of Economics
Title: Digitalising for sense-making
Where: Digital Futures hub, Osquars Backe 5, floor 2 at KTH main campus OR Zoom
Directions: https://www.digitalfutures.kth.se/contact/how-to-get-here/
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Zoom: https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/69560887455
Host: Rahim Rahmani, rahim@dsv.su.se
Administrator: Mario Romero
Abstract: No matter the enhancement of product design and manufacturing through automation, connectivity, integration, modelling, simulation and data handling, industries will continue to be stopped in many of their deployment intentions by factors that are not technological, chief among them human factors.
This is in part because human purpose, personal philosophies and creativity are not understood and not integrated in the models. Some more or less inevitable reductionism in digitalization of human behavior leaves aside a “noise” in which we find jewels like the bodily sense, the sense of self, the sense of belonging, the sense of the possible, the sense of purpose and the worldview, which are the six elements of the SMILE_PH method (Sense-Making Interviews Looking at Elements of Philosophical Health).
The SMILE_PH method, implemented at Vattenfall R&D between 2023 and 2024, is currently being advanced to incorporate data science, enabling a more comprehensive and personalized approach to philosophical health and quality of life. By leveraging AI-driven analysis and a growing global network of philosophical counsellors, we aim to create a data-informed wisdom of the crowd, revolutionizing how we understand and enhance human well-being across six key dimensions: body, self, belonging, possibility, purpose, and philosophical sense.
In this talk, I will present this method, its implementation at Vattenfall R&D, and the ongoing application of data science to the SMILE_PH framework. I will also discuss how these approaches can be integrated into industry practices to create more holistic, human-centered technological advancements that consider the full spectrum of human experience and potential.
Bio: Dr Luis de Miranda is a researcher affiliated with the Center for Wellbeing, Welfare and Happiness at the Stockholm School of Economics. He is a visiting Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies of the University of Turku.
Luis published several books, including Being and Neonness (MIT Press), Philosophical Health: A Practical Introduction (Bloomsbury) and conducted interdisciplinary studies with, among others, computer scientists and medical doctors. In 2019, he initiated the network Philosophical Health International. He also helps international corporations such as Vattenfall or Teaminside find meaning and purpose in the workplace and strategies.