Workshop Collective Adaptation in Very Large Scale Ubicomp: Towards a Superorganism of Wearables (Ubicomp15)

Description

This 2nd workshop (after the UBICOMP 2014 WS in Seattle) asks questions on the potentials and opportunities of turning massively deployed wearable systems to a globe-spanning superorganism of socially interactive personal digital assistants. While 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	07 Sept 2015
Event type	Conference
Location	JapanShow on map