TY - JOUR
T1 - Human-Centered Precision Agriculture: A Conceptual Framework for Sustainable, Resilient, and Explainable Smart Farming Systems
AU - Ana Rodrigues
AU - Tiago Martins
AU - Bruno Lopes
JF - Journal of Smart Farming, Precision Agriculture and Data Science
Y1 - 2025
VL - 2
IS - 2
SP - 91
N2 - Precision agriculture is increasingly shaped by sensors, remote sensing, artificial intelligence, automated machinery, digital platforms, and data-driven decision support. However, technical capability alone does not establish whether a smart farming system is usable, locally appropriate, socially responsible, environmentally beneficial, resilient under disruption, or worthy of farmer reliance. This conceptual article proposes a human-centered precision agriculture framework that places farmers, farm workers, agricultural advisors, local knowledge, farm conditions, usability, accessibility, explainability, decision confidence, human oversight, and responsible governance at the center of system design. The framework integrates sustainability and resilience assessment with user-centered artificial intelligence, participatory design, transparent data practices, uncertainty communication, accountable decision support, and iterative learning. It distinguishes decision confidence from decision quality, explainability from guaranteed trust, participation from assured adoption, and technological potential from demonstrated sustainability or resilience. The proposed structure organizes human-centered smart farming into interconnected stages covering problem definition, stakeholder mapping, farmer-needs assessment, data and system context, sustainability and resilience requirements, explainability design, participation, oversight, governance, evaluation, and feedback. Its main contribution is a socio-technical framework for structuring research and design priorities while maintaining explicit boundaries around empirical validation, farmer autonomy, responsible implementation, and claims of system readiness.
UR - https://airpublications.com/b057833430
ER -