Improving Productivity in Citizen Science through Controlled Intervention

This work was presented at HAIDM 2015. The 2015 workshop on Human-Agent Interaction Design and Models was co-organised by SmartSociety. Abstract: The majority of volunteers participating in citizen science projects perform only a few tasks each before leaving the system. Continue reading →

Worth Fixing: Personalizing Maintenance Alerts for Optimal Performance

This work was presented at HAIDM 2015. The 2015 workshop on Human-Agent Interaction Design and Models was co-organised by SmartSociety. Abstract: Preventive maintenance is essential for the smooth operation of any equipment. Still, people occasionally do not maintain their equipment Continue reading →

Programming Model Elements for Hybrid Collaborative Adaptive Systems

Abstract: Hybrid Diversity-aware Collective Adaptive Systems (HDA-CAS) is a new generation of socio-technical systems where both humans and machine peers complement each other and operate collectively to achieve their goals. These systems are characterized by the fundamental properties of hybridity Continue reading →

SmartSociety – A Platform for Collaborative People-Machine Computation

Abstract: Society is moving towards a socio-technical ecosystem in which physical and virtual dimensions of life are intertwined and where people interactions ever more take place with or are mediated by machines. Hybrid Diversity-aware Collective Adaptive Systems (HDA-CAS) is a Continue reading →