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30 October 2012

1st Berlin Colloquium – Workshop “Patterns of participation”

by Stefan Stumpp

During the first workshop two speakers presented on the subject of “patterns of participation” from different points of view:

Sabine Thürmel from the TU München reported on the subject „The participative turn – constellations of distributed and collective action“. She focused on the interactions between humans and machines and claims that the possibilities of cooperation and interaction between humans and machines are extended and supported by means of software-controlled systems. Thürmel distinguishes between the interaction in material (service robots, robopets) and virtual environments (software agents). The presentation was followed by a vivid discussion about the meaning of the terms cooperation, interaction and participation. In the current use of software-controlled systems there is more of an interaction rather than a participation between humans and machines. In this context, it would have been an interesting question whether robots prospectively will be equipped with cognitive abilities similar to those of humans and whether a development from a human-machine-interaction towards a human-machine-participation is possible.

1st Berlin Colloquium – by http://www.videobuero.de/

During the second presentation Julia Hauck from the University of Erfurt talked about the current state of her thesis on the subject “A question of trust: The development of a model about trust from the user perspective in online-Communities”, using “mitfahrgelegenheit.de” as an example. Hauck defines online-trust as an attitude with a confident expectation in risky online-situations, so that nobody can take advantage of the users vulnerability. Due to different subjective levels of trust, online participation in the „mitfahrgelegenheit.de“  community has an impact on actions in the offline world. The aim of her thesis is to determine important contextual influences and user characteristics that are relevant for the process of developing trust in online-communities.

1st Berlin Colloquium – by http://www.videobuero.de/

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