Developing a Utopian Model of Human-Technology Interaction: Collective Intelligence Applications in Support of Future Well-Being

Abstract

Human-technology interactions are omnipresent in daily life, a reality that must be faced to enact positive change without uprooting the technological systems that have come to define us. The present study develops a collective intelligence model for human-technology interaction (HTI) design that aims to promote peace, prosperity, and happiness through design intentionality informed by utopian targets of radical improvement in society. Participants generated ideas, clarified and consolidated them, and then developed an interpretive structure model of the most important affordances identified during the idea generation phase. Coupled with a two-pass thematic analysis of the original idea set, what emerged is a model that is informed by stakeholder users of the technologies of tomorrow. Affordance themes centered on the importance of promoting world peace through technological means, identifying and rectifying material and financial inequalities, addressing negative well-being effects in current technologies, and increasing global collaboration and eventual expansion into the cosmos.

Future-Present Learning in Place: postdigital learning at the scale of the city

“…Smart KSDT metadata Making use of RDF & OWL 21 social platform metadata properties in addition to e.g. OER Schema 22 for rich snippet results related to geocoded/place-related web entities Civic learning network interface and functional design/development might utilise the collective intelligence of citizens themselves for defining and refining their own optimum information interaction requirements, perhaps somewhat like the approach utilised by Soch et al [7] or Madsen et al [48].…”

“…Drawing on a variety of similarly themed learning city orientated research and community initiatives, this paper reflects on how we can move forward to achieve a flexible, technologically hybrid solution for civic learning, supported by a Human-Technology Interaction (HTI) integrated approach (e.g. [7]). Contributions to ideas, and highlighting possible limitations, may assist in pointing the way to future directions for realising the provision of CLNs within a new technosocial contract of knowledge and the fourth generation human right for citizen access to trustworthy epistemic information [8,9].…”

“…This is Townsend"s vision of the smart city, with its "motley assortment of activists, entrepreneurs, and civic hackers … tinkering their ways toward a different kind of utopia" [28]. The citizen-hacker led approach toward utopia is somewhat reflected in the work of Soch et al"s [7] utopian collective intelligence for "future human-technology interaction design". Conceptually, future-present postdigital learning in place considers a CLN as being a manifestation of a "city as interface" [29], where digital interactions with knowledge resources and networked communities are pervasive, platform and app agnostic, available at point of need or interest, and may be engaged with by any user at any time.…”