Participation, awareness and learning

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1 Participation, awareness and learning Vittorio Loreto Sapienza University of Rome & ISI Foundation, Torino

2 We are greater than the sum of our ambitions... B. Obama, Nov. 7th 2012

3 complexity in social systems crowd behaviour

5 complexity in social systems crowd behaviour mobility

7 complexity in social systems communication and language crowd behaviour opinion dynamics mobility cultural assimilation

8 Birth rates Birth rates Mobile phones diffusion Cell phones

9 complexity in social systems communication and language crowd behaviour opinion dynamics mobility social spreading phenomena cultural assimilation

10 gossip trends hits viruses news innovation domino effect

11 complexity in social systems communication and language crowd behaviour opinion dynamics mobility social spreading phenomena cultural assimilation

12 Techno-social systems Social dynamics ICT-based social-communities

13 in vivo social networks Sociopatterns.org (courtesy of C. Cattuto)

14 the complexity user level cognitive, behavioural community level social, interactive

15 New ICT-driven opportunities Understand and control information dynamics social annotations, social bookmarking search engines recommendation systems collaborative editing (wiki, blogs, forum,...) collaborative filtering... Web as a laboratory for social sciences opinions formation consumers behaviors, marketing strategies cultural trends, globalization birth and evolution of communication systems language evolution... Raise awareness and participation Monitoring of common resources and environment Monitoring of societies Feedback to policy makers Sustainable development...

16 Social annotation resource user { tags } post

17 ing ajax animation api apple architecture art article articles audio bittorrent blog bloggi r business calendar cms code collaboration color comics community computer computers coo database del.icio.us design development diy download downloads dvd econom il english entertainment environment fashion film finance firefox flash flickr fonts food forum n funny gadgets gallery game games geek google graphics gtd guide hack hacks ha e hosting howto html humor icons illustration images imported information inspira od japan java javascript jobs language learning library life lifehacks links linux l del.icio.us agement map maps marketing math media microsoft mobile money movie movies mp3 rking news online opensource osx p2p perl personal philosophy phone photo ph shop php plugin podcast politics portfolio privacy productivity programming reference cipes religion research resource resources reviews rss ruby rubyon arch security seo server service shop shopping social software spyware statis y tips tool tools toread travel tutorial tutorials tv typography ubuntu unix usab web web2.0 webdesign visualization webdev wiki windows wordpress w

18 aspects of tagging exposure to resource resource categorization user 2 user 1 tagging tag "A" tag "B" user 3 tag "C" user 4 tag "D" user 5 exposure to tags

19 Æ Every Aw a re Social computation Populations of users facing collectively difficult problems using a small cognitive overhead

22 A new platform for web-based experiments

it will allow virtually any researcher to realize his own experiment with minimal effort, paving the way of the use of the web as a standard laboratory for social sciences.

23 it will allow virtually any researcher to realize his own experiment with minimal effort, paving the way of the use of the web as a standard laboratory for social sciences. it can be a strong basin of attraction for people willing to participate to experiments, making in this way recruitment much easier than for single-experiment platforms. research areas: opinion and language dynamics, decision making, game-theory, geography, human mobility, economics, psychology, etc...

24 Coordination game (Schelling s focal points)

25 Focal points map

26 Optimal route in a city Beat Google in velocity exploiting traffic information

27 Æ Aw a re Every Citizen Science...individual volunteers or networks of volunteers, many of whom may have no specific scientific training, perform or manage research-related tasks such as observation, measurement or computation.

Æ Every Aw a re GPS helps Pygmies defend

28 Æ Every Aw a re GPS helps Pygmies defend forest J. Lewis (UCL) Figure 1: Interface device used for the Pygmie Community Memory developed by Jerome Lewis. It aids in the management of areas in the Congo rainforest. 10 Lewis, J. From abundance to scarcity. indigenous resource management and the industrial extraction of forest resources. some issues for conservation. African Studies Seminar, Edinburgh. (2004).

29 Innovative learning schemes learning nowadays should be more synonymous of ability to carefully read the environment we live in and to identify the most important instruments to adapt to it and take decisions (learning how to learn).

30 ÆEvery Tell me, ÆEvery I forget. Show me, I remember. Involve me, I understand. Aware Chinese proverb Participation objective/subjective monitoring interaction with policy makers enhanced awareness / learning new ICT tools behavioural changes Aware

31 ÆEvery Turn citizens into sensors Aware Objective vs. Subjective monitoring Measured Quantities Opinions Perceptions Impressions Personal Experiences

32 Æ Aw a re Every Noise pollution

34 ÆEvery Aware Beginners Users Estimation [db] Experts Real Measurement [db]

35 ÆEvery Aware Air-quality

36 Æ Aw a re Every Air-quality

37 Main themes Main challenges social computation participatory sensing citizen science data science complex systems modeling how awareness emerges and what affects it? what triggers large-scale behavioural shifts (incentives)? how do we model and make sense of all this? learning /// opinion dynamics /// decision making how do we devise new platforms for social discourse?

38 Thank you

Global System Science

Global System Science Main Contact: Ralph Dum Digital Science DG CONNECT European Commission Peter Baudains, Steven Bishop University College London www.gsdp.eu Why? We face global challenges that include: