Designing Events for Social Interaction

Designing Virtual Environments for Social Interaction

The Distributed Legible City (DLC) is an interactive multi-media art installation enabling a number of ‘cyclists’ to participate in a shared virtual environment. In this paper we describe the evolution of the DLC guided by ethnographic study. We consider the implications and problems associated with designing a virtual environment where the requirements to ‘support social interaction’ are ambig...

Designing shared virtual environments for social interaction

The Distributed Legible City (DLC) is an interactive multi-media art installation enabling a number of ‘cyclists’ to participate in a shared virtual environment and to tour together around three city representations. In this paper we describe the evolution of the DLC guided by ethnographic study. In particular we consider the implications and problems associated with designing a virtual environ...

Designing for Social Interaction- Physical, Co-located Social Computing

Designing Mechanisms for Trust-based Interaction in Social Networks

In this thesis, we build an agent-based framework to model trust-based interaction among people in a social network. We assume that trust is one person’s expectancy that another person will behave in a way that a good outcome for both people is achieved. The social network is represented by a weighted graph in which the nodes are the agents and the links reflect the strength of trust relationsh...

Social Relationships for Designing Agent Interaction in JADE

Current agent platforms do not provide agents the means for reasoning about expected behaviours during interactions. This lack is due to the absence of design primitives to explicitly shape interaction patterns as first-class resources. This work presents 2COMM4JADE, a framework based on JADE and CArtAgO platforms that allows definition of social relationships among parties, represented by soci...