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Jak Spencer

Researcher at Royal College of Art

Publications -  14
Citations -  884

Jak Spencer is an academic researcher from Royal College of Art. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sustainable design & Sustainable development. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 14 publications receiving 361 citations. Previous affiliations of Jak Spencer include University of the West of England & Loughborough University.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) : Multidisciplinary perspectives on emerging challenges, opportunities, and agenda for research, practice and policy

TL;DR: This research offers significant and timely insight to AI technology and its impact on the future of industry and society in general, whilst recognising the societal and industrial influence on pace and direction of AI development.
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The opportunities that different cultural contexts create for sustainable design: a laundry care example

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the effect of culture on household resource use and found significantly different behaviours in washing techniques, routine, consumption patterns and aspirations, and developed a methodological cultural resource as well as set of 7 design guidelines to understand the impact of designing interventions for sustainable behaviour in different cultural contexts.
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Designing Out Stereotypes in Artificial Intelligence: Involving users in the personality design of a digital assistant

TL;DR: This paper presents the findings from a short design research project with a major global accounting firm that aimed to design the personality of a digital assistant and presents how design methods such as people centred and inclusive design can be used as a tool to build a non stereotypical digital character.
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The Sustainable Development Goals

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The effect of culture on sustainable behaviour in a design context

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TL;DR: In this article, a cross-cultural comparison of everyday household behaviors from an extensive study between the UK, India and Brazil is presented, showing that culture plays a significant part on the resource impact of households due to the formation of habits and routines.