SID2008

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Social Intelligence Design (SID) as a research and practice field attempts to integrate and understand the interactions between designing and social intelligence.

It involves multiple disciplinary approaches concerning design and implementation of systems and environments, ranging from group/team oriented collaboration support systems that facilitate common ground building, goal-oriented interaction among participants, to community support systems that support large-scale online-discussion.

SID also involves processes associated with the cognitive and social psychological understanding of social intelligence, providing means for predicting and evaluating the nature and consequences of communication media on the nature of discussions, interaction dynamics, and decision making.

SID encompasses also pragmatic considerations from economy, sociology, ethics and many other fields, for social intelligence design has a direct relation with the society. For SID, all these aspects work complementarily to each other and must be integrated intimately, for good systems cannot be built without good understanding and vice versa.

Some themes of SID have been:

1. Natural Interactions - covering theory, modeling and analytical frameworks that have been developed with Social Intelligence Design in mind, including situated computation, embodied conversational agents, sociable artifacts, socially intelligent robots.

2. Collaboration Technologies and tools - covering innovations to support interactions within communities, covering a range from knowledge sharing systems, multi-agent systems and interactive systems.

3. Communities - covering community media, communication patterns in online communities, knowledge-creating, network and anonymous communities.

4. Multidisciplinary perspectives – exploring SI at the intersection of different disciplines, such as, people-place-process, place-technology-interaction, that bring technology, work spaces, social behaviors and process aspects together.

5. Application Domains - including design, workspaces, education, e-commerce, entertainment, digital democracy, digital cities, policy and business.

The following graphic by Prof. Toyoaki Nishida in Trento at last year´s SID workshop shows the social intelligence at varying granularity:

This is the seventh workshop on the subject of social intelligence design. Selected papers will be considered for publication in a special Journal issue as has been done with previous SID workshops (SID 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006).

The first workshop SID 2001 (http://www.ii.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/sid/sid2001/), was held in Matsue, Japan in 2001, in conjunction with the annual JSAI Conference. SID 2001 established a forum for key themes in this area, such as, how new technologies mediate human communication and collaboration across geographical and cultural divides. Selected papers from the workshop were published in Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence LNAI 2253: "New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence", edited by Takao Terano, Toyoaki Nishida, Akira Namatame, Yukio Ohsawa, Shusaku Tsumoto, and Takashi Washio, Springer Verlag, December 2001.

SID 2003 (http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Management/News-and-Events/conferences/SID2003) was held at the Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom in 2003. Selected papers were revised and published in a special issue of the AI & Society Journal, Volume 19, Number 1, January 2005, edited by Renate Fruchter, Duska Rosenberg, and Toyoaki Nishida.

SID 2004 (http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/Conferences/sid04/sid04.html) was organized under the auspices of the Centre of Telematics and Information Technology (CTIT) of the University of Twente, the Netherlands, by the Human Media Interaction group of the CTIT. Selected papers were revised and published in a special issue of the AI & Society Journal, Volume 20, Number 2, March 2006, edited by Anton Nijholt and Toyoaki Nishida.

SID 2005 ( http://pbl.stanford.edu/News/SID2005.html) was held in Stanford. Workshops papers were selected and refereed for a special issue of the AI & Society Journal.

SID 2006 (http://www.team1mile.com/asarin/sid2006/) was held in Osaka. Workshops papers were selected and refereed in a special issue of the AI & Society Journal.

SID 2007 (http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/sid07/) was held in Trento, Italy. it focused on three key factors in SID 2007: (1) Development, operation, and evaluation of support systems or tools for SID; this includes support systems and tools both for mediated remote interacton and support for face-to-face interaction; (2) Observation and modeling of psychological and behavioral processes with the aim of obtaining computational models of behavior and interaction; (3)Social intelligence implemented in interfaces, embodied agents, storytelling environments, (serious) gaming and simulation.