Futures is an international, refereed, multidisciplinary journal concerned with medium and long-term futures of cultures and societies, science and technology, economics and politics, environment and the planet and individuals and humanity. Covering methods and practices of futures studies, the journal seeks to examine possible and alternative futures of all human endeavours. Futures seeks to promote divergent and pluralistic visions, ideas and opinions about the future. The editors do not necessarily agree with the views expressed in the pages of Futures

Futures is an international, refereed, multidisciplinary journal focused on the medium and long-term futures of cultures and societies, science and technology, economics and politics, the environment and the planet, as well as individuals and humanity. Covering methods and practices of futures studies, the journal aims to explore possible and alternative futures of all human endeavors. Futures seeks to promote divergent and pluralistic visions, ideas, and opinions about the future. The editors do not necessarily agree with the views expressed in the pages of Futures.

《Futures》是一本国际性的、经过同行评审的多学科期刊，关注文化与社会、科学与技术、经济与政治、环境与地球以及个体与人类的中长期未来。期刊涵盖未来研究的方法与实践，旨在探讨人类各项事业的可能性与替代性未来。《Futures》致力于促进对未来的多元化和多样化的视角、思想和观点。编辑们并不一定赞同《Futures》页面上表达的观点。

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Clarice Carvalho Garcia

Fashion futuring: Intertwining speculative design, foresight and material culture towards sustainable futures

Katarina Larsen

Ulrika Gunnarsson-Östling

Erik Westholm

Environmental scenarios and local-global level of community engagement: Environmental justice, jams, institutions and innovation

环境情景与社区参与的本地-全球层面：环境正义、交通拥堵、制度与创新

Víctor Sampedro-Beneyto

Asunción Agulló-Torres

Francisco José Del Campo-Gomis

Irene Arias-Navarro

Influence of Social Factors and Environmental Behaviour in the Knowledge and Opinion About Circular Economy

社会因素和环境行为对循环经济认知与观点的影响

This future-oriented study examines the opportunities and challenges offered by social robots and communication technology when aiming to decrease emotional and social loneliness in older people residing in assisted living (AL). The paper draws on prior literature on loneliness, elder care and social robots. The aim is to scan the futures regarding technology support for the frail older people in future AL. The analytical frame was built on Robert Weiss' division of relational functions: attachment, social integration, opportunity for nurturance, reassurance of worth, sense of reliable alliance, and guidance in stressful situations, and on a distinction between direct and indirect social robots. Our examinations show that social robots could tackle both emotional and social loneliness in assisted living by empowering people to engage in different forms of social interaction inside and outside the facility. However, ethical concerns of objectification, lack of human contact, and deception need to be thoroughly considered when implementing social robots in care for frail older people.

Jari Pirhonen

Elisa Tiilikainen

Satu Pekkarinen

Marjut Lemivaara

Helinä Melkas

Can robots tackle late-life loneliness? Scanning of future opportunities and challenges in assisted living facilities

机器人能解决晚年孤独吗？辅助生活设施中未来机遇与挑战的扫描

María Laura Ramírez Galleguillos

Aya Eloiriachi

Büşra Serdar

Aykut Coşkun

Exploring Intercultural Perspectives of Migration Futures in a Super-diverse City through Intercultural Participatory Futures Workshops: The Case of Istanbul

通过跨文化参与式未来工作坊探索超级多元城市中的移民未来：以伊斯坦布尔为例

Flavio Comim

Mihály Borsi

Octasiano Valerio

Oliver Raab

Measuring the future: the Youth HDI in Spain

测量未来：西班牙的青年人类发展指数

Valérie November

Catharina Landström

Studying long-term storage as material visions of the future

研究长期存储作为未来物质愿景

T. Børsen

Technology Assessment and Postnormal Science

技术评估与后常态科学

Faith Jeremiah

The Human-AI Dyad: Navigating the New Frontier of Entrepreneurial Discourse

人机共生：探索创业话语的新领域

Olivia T. Harre

Lea Holst Laursen

Hans Jørgen Andersen

Rike Neuhoff

Luca Simeone

Framing artistic practices through new materialism to ensure multispecies futuring in the built environment

通过新唯物主义构建艺术实践以确保建筑环境中的多物种未来

Abbreviation
Journal Impact	3.04
Quartiles(Global)	REGIONAL & URBAN PLANNING(Q2)

ISSN	0016-3287, 1873-6378
h-index	98

Publication Information	Publisher: Elsevier Ltd，Publishing cycle: ，Journal Type: journal，Open Access Journals: No
Basic data	Year of publication: 1968，Proportion of original research papers: 97.00%，Self Citation Rate:20.00%， Gold OA Rate: 45.93%

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