Human Design: Building Computation around Human Networks
Speaker: Alex (Sandy) Pentland , MIT Media Lab
Date: October 2 2003
Time: 4:00pm
Location: NE43-941
Humans and machines are interacting ever more closely, and this is changing both the structure of human organizations and the experience of the participants. My research group and I are therefore asking how technology can enhance the individual in order to produce organizations that are more creative and efficient, and that better support the individual's personal experience. Our work focuses at three scales:
· the individual, where we are augmenting people with wearable computers that enhance their memory, skills, and situational awareness,
· the group, where we are using wearables and ubiquitous infrastructure to engage group social dynamics and expertise, allowing `smart’ networks to support group performance
· the nation, were we are developing active network technologies that support social goals such as improved health, learning, and entrepreneurship
We are finding that there is great opportunity for technology to produce organizations that are more creative and efficient, but also that there are dangerous possibilities for intrusion into the individual's personal life.
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