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Observing social machines part 1: what to observe?

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David De Roure,

Clare Hooper,

Megan Meredith-Lobay,

Kevin Page,

Ségolène Tarte,

Don Cruickshank,

Catherine De RoureAuthors Info & Claims

WWW '13 Companion: Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web

Pages 901 - 904

https://doi.org/10.1145/2487788.2488077

Published: 13 May 2013 Publication History

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As a scoping exercise in the design of our Social Machines Observatory we consider the observation of Social Machines "in the wild", as illustrated through two scenarios. More than identifying and classifying individual machines, we argue that we need to study interactions between machines and observe them throughout their lifecycle. We suggest that purpose may be a key notion to help identify individual Social Machines in composed systems, and that mixed observation methods will be required. This exercise provides a basis for later work on how we instrument and observe the ecosystem.

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WWW '13 Companion: Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web

May 2013

1636 pages

ISBN:9781450320382

DOI:10.1145/2487788

General Chairs:
Daniel Schwabe
PUC-Rio - Brazil
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Virgílio Almeida
UFMG - Brazil
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Hartmut Glaser
CGI.br - Brazil
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Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Yahoo! Labs - Spain & Chile
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Sue Moon
KAIST - South Korea

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