Coexistence and Coevolution of Humans and Intelligent, Adaptive Environments

By Tarek Mokhtar and Joseph Manganelli

Humankind is now in an age wherein generations of humans have never lived without ubiquitous computing and the internet. This 'AI / IoT generation is creative, innovative and adaptable; however, the relentlessness, complexity, and volume of technological, biotechnological, healthcare, social, cultural, and emotional changes and stressors cause humans many personal, social, and environmental traumas. This book presents a vision for designing and managing the complexity and multidimensionality of the world's emerging technological and ai/robotics-enabled environments that is grounded in current methods for designing human-centred, complex, interactive systems.

This book discusses the coexistence and coevolution of humans and intelligent, adaptive environments during a transformational age during which society is confronting social, environmental, and health crises. Defining the creative strategies needed as 'heroes' of the near future, this book investigates the coexistence/coevolution concept that entails how humans should co-evolve with their 'smart artifact ecologies' by designing dynamic environments that ameliorate technology-induced trauma. In understanding the emerging AI-enabled, Non-Humanoid Social Robotics (NH-SR) and IoT-enabled environments, the reader will develop an understanding of how to design environments for future generations.

Coexistence and Coevolution of Humans and Intelligent, Adaptive Environments is a thoughtful read for graduate students, researchers and academics interested in Architecture, Systems Engineering; Computational/Robotic/Intelligent Architecture; Human Factor Engineering; Robotic Engineering; Mechatronics Engineering; Human-Systems Integration; and Human-AI-Robot Teaming. It equally speaks to social scientists, humanists, futurists, and visionary architects whose work navigates the evolving entanglements of technology, humanity, and design.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032579900
• ISBN13: 9781032579900
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"