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