Socio-inspired ICT

Ferscha, Alois; Farrahi, Katayoun; Hoven, Jeroen van den; Hales, David; Nowak, Andrzej; Lukowicz, Paul; Helbing, Dirk

doi:10.1140/epjst/e2012-01700-6

Cited by 15 publications

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“…We further hypothesize that pervasive/wearable computing technologies will make collective intelligence so deeply embedded in our activities [4] to make it impossible, in the near future, to distinguish about what aspects of our "intelligence" are to be attributed to us as individuals, to us as member of the world society, or to us as a organs of a continuous and worldwide socio-technical super-organism.…”

Section: Collective Intelligence and Super-organismsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The superorganism of massive collective wearables

Ferscha¹,

Lukowicz

Zambonelli

2014

Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct Publication

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Personalized wearable ICT systems presented in fashionable and appealing lifestyle-designs have gained critical user acceptance, and comprise momentum to bring wearable computing to a socio-technical mass phenomenon within the next few years. Early indicators for this expected wearable systems "tsunami" are the "spring tide" of 5.3 billion mobile phone platforms (i.e. mobile subscribers) as of the end of 2013, an assessed market potential for 300 million smart watches in 2014, and a possible market for more than 200 million smart eye-wear systems in 2015 [1].This workshop asks the questions on the potentials and opportunities of turning these massively deployed wearable systems to a globe spanning super-organism of socially interactive personal digital assistants. While the individual wearables are of heterogeneous provenance and typically act autonomously, we can assume that they can (and will) self-organize into large scale cooperative collectives, with humans being mostly out-of-the-loop [2]. We may not assume a common objective or central controller, but rather volatile network topologies, co-dependence and internal competition, non-linear and non-continuous dynamics, and sub-ideal, failure prone operation. We could refer to these emerging massive collectives of wearables as a "super-organism" [7], since 1077 UBICOMP '14 ADJUNCT, SEPTEMBER 13 -17, 2014, SEATTLE, WA, USA it exhibits properties of a living organism (like e.g. 'collective intelligence') on its own. In order to properly exploit such super-organisms, we need to develop a deeper scientific understanding of the foundational principles by which they operate.

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Section: Collective Intelligence and Super-organismsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The superorganism of massive collective wearables

Ferscha¹,

Lukowicz

Zambonelli

2014

Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct Publication

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“…in car-following behavior) quantified by trajectory observations recorded by means of GPS and cellular phone. Herding behavior concepts are applied to car drivers, energy and good consumers to investigate the effects of leader followers on the same lane, on the same power grid or commodity chain supply [18,19,20].…”

Section: Scientific Vision and State Of The Artmentioning

confidence: 99%

Complexity Aided Design: the FuturICT Technological Innovation Paradigm

Carbone,

Ajmone-Marsan,

Axhausen

et al. 2013

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In the next century, planet earth will don an electronic skin. It will use the Internet as a scaffold to support and transmit its sensations. This skin is already being stitched together. It consists of millions of embedded electronic measuring devices: thermostats, pressure gauges, pollution detectors, cameras, microphones, glucose sensors, EKGs, electroencephalographs. These will probe and monitor cities and endangered species, the atmosphere, our ships, highways and fleets of trucks, our conversations, our bodies-even our dreams ....What will the earth's new skin permit us to feel? How will we use its surges of sensation? For several years-maybe for a decade-there will be no central nervous system to manage this vast signaling network. Certainly there will be no central intelligence...some qualities of self-awareness will emerge once the Net is sensually enhanced. Sensuality is only one force pushing the Net toward intelligence". These statements are quoted by an interview by Cherry Murray, Dean of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Professor of Physics. It is interesting to outline the timeliness and highly predicting power of these statements. In particular, we would like to point to the relevance of the question "What will the earth's new skin permit us to feel?" to the work we are going to discuss in this paper. There are many additional compelling questions, as for example: "How can the electronic earth's skin be made more resilient?"; "How can the earth's electronic skin be improved to better satisfy the need of our society?";

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Section: Scientific Vision and State Of The Artmentioning

confidence: 99%