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Children are the builders of the future and crucial to how the technologies around us develop. They are not voters but are participants in how the public spaces in a city are used. Through a workshop designed around kids of age 9-12, we investigate if novel technologies like artificial intelligence can be integrated in existing ways of play and performance to 1) re-imagine the future of civic spaces, 2) reflect on these novel technologies in the process and 3) build ways of civic engagement through play. We do this using a blend AI image generation and Puppet making to ultimately build future scenarios, perform debate and discussion around the futures and reflect on AI, its role and potential in their process. We present our findings of how AI helped envision these futures, aid performances, and report some initial reflections from children about the technology., Comment: This is a position paper presented at the "CHI 2024 Workshop on Child-centred AI Design, May 11, 2024, Honolulu, HI, USA."

The perspective-taking in social cognition is an ability that makes third-person judgments about the intentions, beliefs and thoughts of others. We aimed to investigate gender differences in the neural structure differences in (non) emotional perspective-taking ability.Thirty healthy adults (15 females and 15 males) received anodal and sham transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) (2 mA, 15 min) over the right temporoparietal junction (rTPJ) and ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC).Participants underwent a pain visual analog scale, a visuospatial perspective-taking task (VPT) and a self-referential attribution task during stimulation.Findings revealed significant differences between vmPFC and rTPJ anodal tDCS stimulation in emotional perspective-taking.Primarily the vmPFC increased emotional perception in comparison with the rTPJ cite.This emotional perception pattern was significant only for men. The rTPJ enhanced the males' non-emotional perspective ability performance compared to their female contributors.The results indicated that both the rTPJ and vmPFC are associated with self-referential processing (SRP).The vmPFC increased Self Emotional bias negatively while rTPJ increased it positively.The vmPFC and rTPJ play a role in (non) emotional perspective-taking in men.While the vmPFC increased men's emotional perspective-taking compared to rTPJ.The rTPJ excitatory stimulation enhanced males' performance compared to females.Moreover, it indicated that the rTPJ posterior cluster activation in men is higher than in women., Comment: this is an undergraduate research project