Our paper “Recognizing Hospital Care Activities with a Pocket Worn Smartphone” received the Best Paper Award at the 6th International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications and Services (MobiCASE 2014). This has been a joint effort of the German Research Centre Continue reading
Introduction: Worldwide, societies are seeing rapid change in modes of social interaction and organization. These new interaction modes are predicated on emerging forms of information infrastructure together with rapidly evolving devices, systems, and applications that are ever more deeply interwoven Continue reading
Abstract. Advances in human computation bring the feasibility of utilizing human capabilities as services. On the other hand, we have witnessed emerging collective adaptive systems which are formed from heterogeneous types of compute units to solve complex problems. The recently Continue reading
About: The book focuses on Social Collective Intelligence, a term used to denote a class of socio-technical systems that combine, in a coordinated way, the strengths of humans, machines and collectives in terms of competences, knowledge and problem solving capabilities Continue reading