Current debates about increasing polarization of the online public sphere stress the role of AI-mediated information access in creating and/or amplifying “filter bubbles” and “echo chambers”. Such polarizing developments have been linked to both the biased way in which AI algorithms provide recommendations, as well as to well-known cognitive limitations and biases that hinder people from being able or willing… read more →

The research project CHEST – Collective enHanced Environment for Social Tasks will be integrating social media, crowdsourcing and collective intelligence techniques to support social innovation. Starting in February 2014, the CHEST Challenge will promote the generation of breakthrough ideas which promise substantial societal benefits by using modern Information Technology, carrying out two rounds of open calls for ideas which try… read more →

CUbRIK is a 36 month Collaborative Project involving 15 partners, partially funded by the European Commission. The Social Fashion Trend Intelligence application is one of two application demonstrators of the CUbRIK project. Integrating machine, human and crowd-sourced tasks, the application provides fashion trend analysis tools for small and medium businesses in the fashion industry, enabling them to identify insights into… read more →

The SoHuman Workshop Series aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines to explore the challenges and opportunities of applying social media to designing novel applications of collective intelligence, with a special focus on crowdsourcing and human computation. By emphasizing practical challenges and experiences with real-world applications, the workshops will stimulate the discussion on best practices in this… read more →