The future of collaborative working

In 20 years how would analysts collaborate to report on a major global event as it happens? What kind of technologies would be available to augment this work? Research Questions

The Environment

Van Dam, Andries, (1997). "Post-WIMP user interfaces." Communications of the ACM, 40.2 (1997): Harper, R. H. (2008). Being human: Human-computer interaction in the year Microsoft Research Limited. Benko, H., Jota, R., & Wilson, A. (2012). MirageTable: freehand interaction on a projected augmented reality tabletop. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems (pp ). ACM. Evolving Hardware

Van Dam, Andries, (1997). "Post-WIMP user interfaces." Communications of the ACM, 40.2 (1997): Harper, R. H. (2008). Being human: Human-computer interaction in the year Microsoft Research Limited. Benko, H., Jota, R., & Wilson, A. (2012). MirageTable: freehand interaction on a projected augmented reality tabletop. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems (pp ). ACM. Evolving Hardware

Van Dam, Andries, (1997). "Post-WIMP user interfaces." Communications of the ACM, 40.2 (1997): Harper, R. H. (2008). Being human: Human-computer interaction in the year Microsoft Research Limited. Benko, H., Jota, R., & Wilson, A. (2012). MirageTable: freehand interaction on a projected augmented reality tabletop. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems (pp ). ACM. Evolving Hardware

Van Dam, Andries, (1997). "Post-WIMP user interfaces." Communications of the ACM, 40.2 (1997): Harper, R. H. (2008). Being human: Human-computer interaction in the year Microsoft Research Limited. Benko, H., Jota, R., & Wilson, A. (2012). MirageTable: freehand interaction on a projected augmented reality tabletop. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems (pp ). ACM. Evolving Hardware

Challenges Collaboration Dealing with massive data streams: Refining data Credibility of sources Expertise and knowledge

“I” Intention “We” Intention “I” Intention

Collaborative Group Member Selection Technology assisted selection Professional recommendation

Handling Massive Data: AI

Conceptual Semantic Networks Represent knowledge in a machine-readable form to allow automated inferences based on relationships between things rich data queries Retain knowledge within a system Integrate data from disparate sources Connect data conceptually to allow easier collaboration and sharing

Artificial Neural Networks Attempt to model the connective features of the human brain Learn by adjusting to changes in an information environment according to certain algorithms and laws. Can find patterns in data, even when the data is incomplete, ambiguous, complex or noisy. Can analyse the data and network activity in CSNs to analyse data and model outcomes including human behaviours. Stevens, R., & Casillas, A. (2006). Artificial neural networks. In Automated Scoring of Complex Tasks in Computer Based Testing: An Introduction. Lawrence Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ,

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