Collective competence: Moving from individual to collaborative expertise

Scaling Up: From Individual Design to Collaborative Design to Collective Design

This paper presents a conceptual space for collective design to facilitate development of design environments that encourage large scale participation in the next generation of challenging design tasks. Developing successful collective design starts by understanding how individual and collaborative design are supported with computing technology and then goes beyond collaborative design to struc...

About some problems related to collective expertise

Collective memory: collaborative and individual processes in remembering.

Two experiments compared collaborative and individual recall. In Experiment 1, participants encoded pictures and words with a deep or shallow processing task, then recalled them twice either individually or collaboratively. Collaborative groups recalled more than individuals, but less than nominal groups (pooled individuals), thus exhibiting collaborative inhibition. However, group recall appea...

From individual to collective dynamics in Argentine ants (Linepithema humile).

In this paper we propose a model for the formation of paths in Argentine ants when foraging in an empty arena. Based on experimental observations, we provide a distribution for the random change in direction that they approximately undergo while foraging as a mixture of a Gaussian and a Pareto distribution. By following the principles described in previous work, we consider persistence and rein...

Mandevillian Intelligence: From Individual Vice to Collective Virtue