The Social Computer project

The Social Computer is a prototype of a computing machine that is fully driven by human activity and input. The engine reacts upon bursts of activity on the social Web and autonomously engages with human users to stimulate their contributions to crowdsourcing microtasks. Currently the system can interact with users on Twitter and facebook as well as via a Chrome extension.

How to interact with the Social Computer?

The Social Computer supports a set of fundamental instructions. By responding with these instructions and your additional input to messages the Social Computer sends out via Twitter or facebook the users shape the algorithms the Social Computer runs.

Basic Instructions

Instruction	General syntax	Example usage
Prioritize message	PRIO [+1|-1]
Pass message	SHARE [userid1,userid2,...,useridN]
Enrich message	ENRICH [your message, hashtags or URIs]
Translate message	TRANS [your translation of original content]
Resolve message	RESOLVE [your message to resolve this message]

Active interfaces

• Twitter
• facebook

References

• Luczak-Roesch, Markus, Tinati, Ramine, Aljaloud, Saud, Hall, Wendy and Shadbolt, Nigel (2016) A universal socio-technical computing machine. In, 16th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE2016), Lugano, CH, 06 - 09 Jun 2016.
• Luczak-Rösch, Markus, Tinati, Ramine, O'Hara, Kieron and Shadbolt, Nigel (2015) Socio-technical computation. At The 18th ACM conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, Vancouver, CA, 14 - 18 Mar 2015. 4pp. (doi:10.1145/2685553.2698991).

Documentation

The detailed documentation is currently under development. You can access the source code of the middleware components and the Chrome extension to run with a demo instance here

If you have any questions please contact Markus Luczak-Roesch