Designing convivial digital cities: a social intelligence design approach

Caire, Patrice

doi:10.1007/s00146-009-0201-x

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“…In ongoing work, such as 'designing convivial digital cities' (Caire, 2009), we raise the question whether social intelligence design could be used to designing convivial digital cities. We look at digital cities from a social intelligence point of view, and, as an initial step towards obtaining measures for conviviality, present a case study describing interactions between users and agents using dependence graphs.…”

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“…These ideas are further developed by Lamizet (2004) who characterises conviviality as both 'institutional structures that facilitate social relations and technological processes that are easy to control and pleasurable to use'. An important use for conviviality today is for digital cities as a mechanism to reinforce social cohesion and as a tool to reduce miscoordinations between individuals (Caire and van der Torre, 2009a;Caire, 2009;Caire, 2008).…”

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How to import the concept of conviviality to web communities

Caire

2010

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While conviviality has simultaneously been defined in the literature as individual freedom realised in personal interdependence, rational and cooperative behaviour and normative instrument, no model has yet been proposed for computer science. In this article, we raise the question of how to import the concept of conviviality to web communities. Firstly, we analyse the concept of conviviality for social science, multi-agent systems and intelligent interface; we show the distinction among various kinds of use of conviviality, the positive outcomes such as social cohesion, trust and participation but also the negative aspects that emerged when conviviality becomes an instrument of power relations. Secondly, we look at the challenges conviviality raises for computer science, starting with a discussion on the misconceptions about conviviality. We then discuss the role of conviviality in multi-agent systems, for example, as a useful high-level modelling concept for organisations and communities. Thirdly, we consider conviviality for computer science environments and discuss the role of awareness, also pointed out by mixed-initiative interaction design; furthermore, we discuss the importance of guidelines to address privacy challenges raised by new technologies. Fourthly, we look at the normative aspect of conviviality as described in the literature, and find that social norms for conviviality parallel legal and institutional norms for digital cities. Finally, we introduce the idea of conviviality measures based on agents' interdependencies.

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How to import the concept of conviviality to web communities

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2010

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“…Tools for conviviality are concerned in particular with dynamic aspects of conviviality, such as the emergence of conviviality from the sharing of properties or behaviors whereby each member's perception is that their personal needs are taken care of [23,24].…”

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Enhancing Cooperation in Distributed Information Systems Using Conviviality and Multi-Context Systems

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Bikakis

2011

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. Modern information systems are characterized by the distribution of information and services among several autonomous heterogeneous entities. A major requirement for the success of such systems is that participating entities cooperate by sharing parts of their local knowledge. This paper presents a novel approach for modeling and enhancing cooperation in distributed information systems, which combines two formal models from the field of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: a conviviality model and Multi-Context Systems. Our aim is two-fold. First, we develop a combined model for context-based representation and cooperation. Second, we provide the means for measuring cooperation leading to the design and evaluation of more convivial systems.

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“…Empathy can also be considered to be equivalent to conviviality that allows individuals to identify with each other thereby experiencing each other's feelings, thoughts, and attitudes and hence is deemed a central concept to design a community [7]. From a synthesis of many researchers' work on empathy, Levenson and Ruef (1992) identify three different qualities of empathy: (a) knowing what another person is feeling, (b) feeling what another person is feeling, and (c) responding compassionately to another person's distress [8].…”

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Empathy and Mobile Applications

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Drigas

2017

Int. J. Interact. Mob. Technol.

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Abstract-Mobile devices, such as mobile phones and personal digital assistants, have gained wide-spread popularity and are part of the everyday life of billions of people. Today's mobile phones represent a rich and powerful computing platform, given their sensing, processing, social and communication capabilities. Empathy is the ability to identify with and understand another person's situation and feelings. Our ability to empathize affects how well we communicate our thoughts and feelings with others, how well we understand others, and how comfortable people feel communicating with us. Mobile devices have made a huge step in trying to cultivate empathy to people and different social groups through interesting applications.Keywords-mobile devices, mobile applications, empathy, social media, games, health, emotions, emotional/affective agents, elderly people, social change IntroductionMobile devices are shaping-up users' lifestyles by adding new dimensions to the concept of socializing, performing actions and forming new habits [1]. As summarized by Fogg and Eckles (2007) [2], "mobile phones will soon become the most important platform for changing human behavior". Oinas-Kukkonen (2008) [3] argues that ubiquitous information systems are shaping up the creation and dissemination of information in new ways hence creating opportunities to foster healthier lifestyle.Furthermore mobile applications which is software, developed to run particularly on mobile phones (smartphones) and tablet computing devices, have the potential to bring a new perspective to people's life in many sectors. The diffusion of mobile phones into our lives is an evidence of their popularity. The ever-growing liking and adoption of mobile phones (e.g. Blackberry, iPhone, Google Android, Nokia Windows Phone) is reflective of their mammoth potential to promote health and general wellbeing of users. Portability, continuous data streaming, advanced computing power and easy dissemination of applications give them an edge over other forms of iniJIM

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Designing convivial digital cities: a social intelligence design approach

Cited by 14 publications

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How to import the concept of conviviality to web communities

How to import the concept of conviviality to web communities

Enhancing Cooperation in Distributed Information Systems Using Conviviality and Multi-Context Systems

Empathy and Mobile Applications

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