The next social revolution
Mobile communication, pervasive computing, wireless networks, collective action.
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View by Chapter: Smart Mobs and the Power of the Mobile ManyTitle: Auranet: Trust and Face-to-Face Interactions in a Wearable Community
Author: Jay Schneider et al.
Publication: Technical Report WCL-TR15, July 2001
Abstract or Excerpt: This paper continues our work on wearable communities. We examine one facet of a wearable community, the Auranet, a framework for structuring encounters in social space based on reputations and trust.
Title: The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Author: Erving Goffman
Publication: Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1959
Title: Disseminating Trust Information in Wearable Communities
Author: Jay Schneider et al.
Publication: 2nd International Symposium on Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing (HUC2K), 25-27 September 2000, Bristol, England
Abstract or Excerpt: This paper describes a framework for managing and distributing trust information in a community of mobile and wearable computer users. Trust information in the form of reputations are used to aid users during their social interactions with the rest of the community. Keywords: Wearable computing, social networks, social interaction, trust. Introduction In our modern world, the use of communication technologies like phone, fax and email has become commonplace.
Title: When Cyborgs Meet: Building Communities of Cooperating Wearable Agents
Author: Gerd Kortuem et al.
Publication: Proceedings Third International Symposium on Wearable Computers, 18-19 October 1999, San Francisco, California
Abstract or Excerpt: This paper introduces the notion of a Wearable Community as a group of wearable users who cooperate for their mutual benefit. In such a community, wearable computers act as personal agents on behalf of and in the interest of their 'owners'. These agents are goal-directed and will perform a broad array of tasks for the user, ranging from personal scheduling to task planning. We describe how personal wearable agents can be used to enable goal directed cooperation during physical encounters of people with selfish and conflicting goals, such that cooperation leads to mutually beneficial results. We discuss negotiation protocols, and describe the design and implementation of a wearable agent system, as well as a simulator for large-scale wearable communities.
Title: Out of Control
Author: Kevin Kelly
Publication: Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1994
Title: Emergent Evolution and the Development of Societies
Author: William Morton Wheeler
Publication: New York: W.W. Norton, 1928
Title: Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
Author: Steven Johnson
Publication: New York: Scribner, 2001
Title: The Social Mind
Author: Bernardo A. Huberman
Publication: Origins of the Human Brain, eds. Jean-Pierre Changeux and Jean Chavaillon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995)