You can register at https://ciic.s23m.com/registration/.
In case you don't live in Auckland (New Zealand) but would like to attend, please PM me. A number of participants are joining via an interactive online meeting. I can send you access details to an online live-stream from the workshop.
Context:
The focus of the next CIIC workshop on 3 June is on human scale computing and the design of assistive technologies for humans and machines to improve filtering of information streams, collaboration, critical thinking, and learning.
This theme allows us to build on the results from the CIIC workshop in March, which focused on support for neurodiversity, individual behavioural patterns within typical work environments, and collaboration across organisational boundaries.
One set of possible concrete objectives for assistive technology is the following:
1. Create and maintain exactly one [computing] system (repository of activated knowledge), not zero, and not two or more
2. Teach the system what you value, what you believe to be facts, and the models that you use to assess new inputs – nothing more, and nothing less
3. Collaborate with your system to interact with the world as often or as infrequently as it suits your cognitive lens and communication style
4. Manage cognitive load in a timely manner, ideally before you become overwhelmed
5. Adopt a human scale definition of organisation
A technology that provides such functionality not only acts as a mirror of your conscious knowledge and understanding, but your interaction patterns with the system also reflect your specific learning style and your cognitive preferences.
Human scale computing represents an opportunity not only to improve communication between humans and software systems, but also to improve communication and trusted collaboration between humans with different kinds of minds and cultural backgrounds.
30 May 2017, 5:48 am
