Collective Wearables: The Superorganism of Massively Deployed Wearables

Description

his workshop asks the questions on the potentials and opportunities of turning massively deployed wearable systems to a globe spanning super­organ­ism of socially interactive personal digital assistants. While the individual wearables are of heterogeneous provenance and typically act autonomously, it stands to reason that they can (and will) self-organize into large scale cooperative collectives, with humans being mostly out-of-the-loop. A common objective or central controller may thereby not be assumed, but rather volatile network topologies, co-dependence and internal competition, non-linear and non-continuous dynamics, and sub-ideal, failure prone operation. We refer to these emerging massive collectives of wearables as a "super­organ­ism", since they exhibit properties of a living organism (like e.g. 'collective intelligence') on their own.

Period	13 Sept 2014
Event type	Conference
Location	United StatesShow on map