Wednesday, October 12, 2005
ACM News Service:
"'Social Computing Drives Emerging Applications'
PC Magazine (09/28/05); Hines, Matt
Experts at MIT's Emerging Technologies Conference expect a new era of intrapersonal communications to arise from the advent of social networks and applications that assess personal behavior and gauge basic human traits such as honesty and likeability. MIT Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences Dr. Sandy Pentland noted that MIT and other institutions are developing voice recognition software that can already determine whether a person is lying over the phone, failing to engage an audience's interest, or more likely to break up with their spouse. "By engaging in reality mining, or paying attention to patterns of movement, activity or a person's tone of voice, to examine the way people truly feel, we can build better forms of social software," said Pentland. Dodgeball.com creator Dennis Crowley pointed to the emergence of geographically aware social networks thanks to a resurgence in locative technologies, Dodgeball being a case in point; the social networking application enables people to hook up by sharing personal information through their computers and wireless devices. Meanwhile, Del.icio.us Web site founder Joshua Schachter said the rapid adoption of email, instant messaging, and mobile devices is converging to pave the way for new applications that try to take advantage of human intelligence to some degree. IT.com CEO Mark Cordover said he anticipates the development of new social rules that address challenges to privacy and eavesdropping opportunities presented by social computing applications. Many conference presentations cited socially beneficial technologies: Entrepreneur Nolan Bushnell detailed his latest brainchild, an educational software system designed to make learning more fun and interactive by exploiting kids' love of video games.
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"'Social Computing Drives Emerging Applications'
PC Magazine (09/28/05); Hines, Matt
Experts at MIT's Emerging Technologies Conference expect a new era of intrapersonal communications to arise from the advent of social networks and applications that assess personal behavior and gauge basic human traits such as honesty and likeability. MIT Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences Dr. Sandy Pentland noted that MIT and other institutions are developing voice recognition software that can already determine whether a person is lying over the phone, failing to engage an audience's interest, or more likely to break up with their spouse. "By engaging in reality mining, or paying attention to patterns of movement, activity or a person's tone of voice, to examine the way people truly feel, we can build better forms of social software," said Pentland. Dodgeball.com creator Dennis Crowley pointed to the emergence of geographically aware social networks thanks to a resurgence in locative technologies, Dodgeball being a case in point; the social networking application enables people to hook up by sharing personal information through their computers and wireless devices. Meanwhile, Del.icio.us Web site founder Joshua Schachter said the rapid adoption of email, instant messaging, and mobile devices is converging to pave the way for new applications that try to take advantage of human intelligence to some degree. IT.com CEO Mark Cordover said he anticipates the development of new social rules that address challenges to privacy and eavesdropping opportunities presented by social computing applications. Many conference presentations cited socially beneficial technologies: Entrepreneur Nolan Bushnell detailed his latest brainchild, an educational software system designed to make learning more fun and interactive by exploiting kids' love of video games.
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