Cross-disciplinary research on collective intelligence considers that groups, like individuals, have a certain level of intelligence. For example, the study by Woolley et al. (2010) indicates that groups which perform well on one type of task will perform well on others. In a pair of empirical studies of groups interacting face-to-face, they found evidence of a collective intelligence factor, a...

Models of collective animal behaviour, such as the ocking of birds, are usually based upon simulations that appear to exhibit properties of the animals in question. In this paper, we describe an alternative approach; that of automatically extracting a model of animal behaviour from video sequences of real animals. Point distribution models (PDMs) are used to describe the shape of a ock of ducks...

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1 Departamento de Fı́sica, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba–PR, 81531-990, Brazil 2 Laboratório de Fı́sica Teórica e Computacional, Departamento de Fı́sica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife–PE, 50670-901, Brazil 3 Instituto de Fı́sica, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió–AL, 57072-970, Brazil 4 Consortium of the Americas for Interdisciplinary Science, University of New Mexico,...

This contribution analyses the arguments of students in a learning activity entitled "Argue Graph". This activity is intended to make students understand the relationship between learning theories and design choices in courseware development. The analysis of arguments is centered on the effects of discussion and opinion conflict on the elaboration of arguments. We then use an adaptation of a co...

The benefice of a collective decisions process mainly rests upon the possibility for the participants to confront their respective points of views. To this end, they must have cognitive and technical tools that ease the sharing of the reasons that motivate their own preferences, while accounting for information and feelings they should keep for their own. The paper presents the basis of such a ...

Some consulting firms are implementing processes and technologies that transform individual experience into organizational knowledge, preserve it, and make it available to their employees. Advocates of knowledge management believe that these practices accelerate collective learning, improve competitiveness, and facilitate response to market changes. This paper uses a systems approach to underst...

This paper examines the social dimension of collective storytelling around a particular ludic object. We study the action role-playing game Skyrim (2011) through a mixed methodology that integrates the humanities and the social sciences. Based on extensive analysis of player generated videos, we demonstrate that the social dimension plays an all-important role in the shaping of storytelling by ...

Local-authority and collective forms of ownership still tend to dominate in the Alpine regions. This article concentrates on collective ownership or common property in the Alps and poses the question as to its importance with respect to the sustainable use of natural resources in the mountain regions. The concept of common property or collective ownership is explained in the first part of the a...

The term empathy has attracted many researchers from a variety of disciplines; however, a team’s collective empathy, which is composed of cognitive, affective, and behavioral dimensions, has rarely been addressed in the literature. In this study, we empirically investigated the relationship between the collective empathy of a team and the effectiveness of its project process. Additionally, we t...