Abstract
Human interaction is increasingly mediated through technological systems, resulting in the emergence of a new class of socio-technical systems, often called Social Machines. However, many systems are designed and managed in a centralised way, limiting the participants’ autonomy and ability to shape the systems they are part of.
In this paper we are concerned with creating a graphical formalism that allows novice users to simply draw the patterns of interaction that they desire, and have computational infrastructure assemble around the diagram. Our work includes a series of participatory design workshops, that help to understand the levels and types of abstraction that the general public are comfortable with when designing socio-technical systems. These design studies lead to a novel formalism that allows us to compose rich interaction protocols into functioning, executable architecture. We demonstrate this by translating one of the designs produced by workshop participants into an a running agent institution using the Lightweight Social Calculus (LSC).
In this paper we are concerned with creating a graphical formalism that allows novice users to simply draw the patterns of interaction that they desire, and have computational infrastructure assemble around the diagram. Our work includes a series of participatory design workshops, that help to understand the levels and types of abstraction that the general public are comfortable with when designing socio-technical systems. These design studies lead to a novel formalism that allows us to compose rich interaction protocols into functioning, executable architecture. We demonstrate this by translating one of the designs produced by workshop participants into an a running agent institution using the Lightweight Social Calculus (LSC).
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Diagrammatic Representation and Inference |
Subtitle of host publication | Diagrams 2018 |
Editors | Peter Chapman, Gem Stapleton, Amirouche Moktefi, Sarah Perez-Kriz, Francesco Bellucci |
Publisher | SpringerLink |
Pages | 765-769 |
Number of pages | 4 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-3-319-91376-6 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-3-319-91375-9 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2018 |
Event | 10th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams - Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Duration: 18 Jun 2018 → 22 Jun 2018 http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2018/ |
Publication series
Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
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Publisher | Springer, Cham |
Volume | 10871 |
ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 1611-3349 |
Conference
Conference | 10th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams |
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Abbreviated title | Diagrams 2018 |
Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
City | Edinburgh |
Period | 18/06/18 → 22/06/18 |
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