Hybrid Human-Machine Computing (HHMC): From Human Computation to Social Computing and Beyond
The main aim of this workshop is to bring researchers in different disciplines but with common interests in HHMC together to build a more interdisciplinary community so that truly interdisciplinary collaboration and innovative research ideas can be promoted. We hope to identify concrete ways to sustain such activities by creating a long-term research network of some kind in the UK, in Europe and globally.
When we talk about “computing” we often mean computers do something (for humans), but due to the more and more blurred boundary between humans and computers, this old paradigm of “computing” has changed drastically e.g. in human computation humans do all or part of the computing (for machines), and in social computing people’s social behaviours are intermingled with computer systems so computing happens with humans and computers at the same time while humans are using computers to live their lives (e.g. when using social media such as Twitter and/or Facebook). To some extent we see more and more a hybrid human-machine computing (HHMC) world where both humans and machines are working with and for each other.
Both human computation and social computing are relatively young but very active research subjects in many different disciplines. In general, such research is still rather fragmented and researchers working in different disciplines often do not see what people in other disciplines do. If we look at the bigger concept of HHMC, we will see an even more fragmented landscape, e.g., computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) mostly limited to the human-computer interface community (which is an area in computer science), and computational social science whose impact is mostly limited to social sciences. The main aim of this workshop is to bring researchers in different disciplines but with common interests in HHMC together to build a more interdisciplinary community so that truly interdisciplinary collaboration and innovative research ideas can be promoted. We hope to identify concrete ways to sustain such activities by creating a long-term research network of some kind in the UK, in Europe and globally.
The event is organized in association with the Surrey Centre for Cyber Security at the University of Surrey. The meeting has received funding from the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Surrey and will be funded partly by a number of related EPSRC and EU research projects of the co-organisers.
ORGANISER
Dr Shujun Li, Department of Computer Science and Surrey Centre for Cyber Security, University of Surrey.
Workshop Report
The report for this workshop is available to download below.
