The Adaptation and Personalization Community Group intends to explore and discuss technologies including those with which to enable adaptive science news. Science news connects society to scientific and technological progress and achievement. It simultaneously benefits multiple audience demographics: students, the … Continue reading
The Adaptation and Personalization Community Group intends to explore and discuss technologies including those with which to enable adaptive encyclopedias. With adaptive encyclopedias, end-users would be able to browse and navigate vast repositories of knowledge, finding that each article they … Continue reading
Civism is itself a technology, to be more precise it is the ultimate civilizing process social technology since ancient times. Civics is civism’s diplomatic technology to establish the rule of law (RoL) under civic studies, civic culture, and civic virtues. Civic education is civics’s educational technology (EdTech) to establish civic engagement between citizens, grassroots civil movements, … Continue reading
I would like to extend a warm welcome to our Group’s newest Chair! Felipe Ribeiro began working with civic technology in 1998 when he was 14 and started working with a UNICEF programme called School City which allowed them to … Continue reading
For whom should large-scale repositories of knowledge, e.g., Wikipedia, phrase their content: article subject-matter experts, laypeople, or students? Similarly, what about technical documentation? Digital textbooks? What if content authors could provide multiple intended audiences – differing with respect to their … Continue reading
Civic Technology and Open Government According to Wikipedia, “civic technology enhances the relationship between the people and government with software for communications, decision-making, service delivery, and political process. It includes information and communications technology supporting government with software built by … Continue reading
Introduction Automated reasoning is a branch of artificial intelligence dedicated to understanding different aspects of reasoning; moral reasoning is reasoning concerned with morality. Automated moral reasoning is a research topic pertaining to the understanding of and the modeling and simulation … Continue reading
How can software detect persuasion in rhetoric and dialog occurring between people or between people and dialog systems? In Opinion Polling Systems and Virtual Opinion Pollsters, I broached dialog systems which interact with users to collect their opinions. Presented was … Continue reading
Intelligent personal assistants (i.e. Cortana, Google Assistant, Siri) or other “bots” can schedule and perform opinion polls. Specialized artificial intelligence systems, opinion polling systems or virtual opinion pollsters, can be of use to opinion polling organizations, to news organizations and … Continue reading
Ideas to provide citizens with the convenience of voting from home, ideas pertaining to electronic and postal voting, are broached. After voting online, voters can print their ballots. Printed ballots can be designed for purposes including rapid visual inspection by … Continue reading
