{"id":3666,"date":"2025-05-19T17:01:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T08:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/?p=3666"},"modified":"2025-05-19T17:01:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T08:01:45","slug":"en092","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/events\/en092\/","title":{"rendered":"The 1st BAIRAL Research Meeting for Fiscal Year 2025 <br> \u201cWatching and Being Watched: When Environmental Design Meets Crime Prevention\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u25c7<\/strong><strong>BAIRAL<\/strong><strong>\uff08<\/strong><strong>B\u2019AI RA League<\/strong><strong>\uff09<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>BAIRAL is a study group by young research assistants (RA) of the B\u2019AI Global Forum of the Institute for AI and Beyond at the University of Tokyo. Aiming to achieve gender equality and a guarantee of rights for minorities in the AI era, this study group examines relationships between digital information technology and society. BAIRAL organizes research meetings every other month with guest speakers in a variety of fields.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u25c7Date &amp; Venue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u30fbDate: W<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ednesday<\/span>, <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">June 11, 2025, <\/span>5:00 &#8211; 6:30 pm (JST)<br \/>\n\u30fbVenue: Online via Zoom\uff08No registration required\uff09<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/u-tokyo-ac-jp.zoom.us\/j\/88272485472?pwd=v8bO6rKKCYPsCLbbNbUOF3dFwpovmd.1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/u-tokyo-ac-jp.zoom.us\/j\/88272485472?pwd=v8bO6rKKCYPsCLbbNbUOF3dFwpovmd.1<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meeting ID: 882 7248 5472<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Passcode: 318962<br \/>\n<\/span>\u30fbLanguage: English<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u25c7Guest Speaker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Sihan YANG, Project Researcher, Collaborative Community Design Lab, University of Tokyo<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u25c7Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Japan is widely regarded as a safe country with relatively low crime rates, where traditional policing coexists with increasing technology-driven interventions. Notably, crime prevention has never been merely a judicial matter; it is also deeply entangled with the field of environmental design. The idea of looking into the relationship between public security and urban landscape could be traced back to Jane Jacobs\u2019 \u2018eyes on the street\u2019 in 1961. Subsequent theories such as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Defensible Space<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED)<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> have significantly shaped contemporary approaches to environmental criminology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0In recent decades, the proliferation of sensors, actuators, and surveillance devices in everyday environments has added a new layer to the nexus of factors involved in crime prevention. To explore security issues in the context of smart cities, the speaker conducted fieldwork in Kakogawa City, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. This involved an environmental assessment based on a newly designed CPTED evaluation framework, as well as a questionnaire survey examining residents\u2019 perceptions of safety, participation in crime prevention activities, and acceptance of public surveillance. The results will be discussed, grounded in local observations and contextual detail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Put simply, a more dynamic understanding of the relationship among people, devices, and environments is needed to inform the experience of watching and being watched, and to form a robust foundation for developing smart safer cities. More critically, it was in 2022 that Japan\u2019s crime rate marked the end of a 20-year decline and has shown a consistent upward trend since. This calls for reflection on what each of us, as ordinary individuals, can do, and what we can no longer ignore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u25c7Organizer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>B\u2019AI Global Forum, Institute for AI and Beyond at the University of Tokyo<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u25c7Inquiry<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Priya Mu (Research assistant of the B\u2019AI Global Forum)<br \/>\npriya-mu[at]g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u25c7BAIRAL\uff08B\u2019AI RA League\uff09 BAIRAL is a study group by<\/p>\n<div class=\"continue-reading-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/events\/en092\/\" class=\"continue-reading\">Continue Reading<i class=\"ion-ios-arrow-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[62,368,366,367],"class_list":["post-3666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-bairal","tag-crimepreventiondesign","tag-smartsurveillance","tag-urbansafety"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3668,"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666\/revisions\/3668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}