TY - GEN
T1 - On the design of collective applications
AU - Dron, Jon
AU - Anderson, Terry
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - In this paper we define collective applications as those that employ the aggregated behaviours of individuals in a crowd to shape their environment and to provide structure and influence in that environment. Collectives occur in most systems that aggregate usergenerated content, whether or not that is the intention of the designers or contributors. We identify the necessary features of such applications and observe that they pose a particularly wicked set of design problems, because important characteristics of the system, including processing and presentation, reside outside the program in the behaviour of the crowd itself. We suggest some tentative approaches to dealing with these problems.
AB - In this paper we define collective applications as those that employ the aggregated behaviours of individuals in a crowd to shape their environment and to provide structure and influence in that environment. Collectives occur in most systems that aggregate usergenerated content, whether or not that is the intention of the designers or contributors. We identify the necessary features of such applications and observe that they pose a particularly wicked set of design problems, because important characteristics of the system, including processing and presentation, reside outside the program in the behaviour of the crowd itself. We suggest some tentative approaches to dealing with these problems.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=70849089820&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/CSE.2009.469
DO - 10.1109/CSE.2009.469
M3 - Published Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:70849089820
SN - 9780769538235
T3 - Proceedings - 12th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, CSE 2009
SP - 368
EP - 374
BT - Proceedings - 12th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, CSE 2009 - 2009 IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, SocialCom 2009
T2 - 2009 IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, SocialCom 2009
Y2 - 29 August 2009 through 31 August 2009
ER -