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Will Collective Intelligence Change the way we Work?
We’re in the midst of a transformation in how businesses are organized. Typical corporate hierarchies are starting to look overrated, and changes in coordination technology have the power to make work and innovation even more democratic. However, according to MIT … Continue reading
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Stigmergy as a Universal Coordination Mechanism
The concept of stigmergy has been used to analyze self-organizing activities in an ever-widening range of domains, including social insects, robotics, web communities and human society. Yet, it is still poorly understood and as such its full power remains underappreciated. … Continue reading
Posted in Coordination, Self-organization, Self-organized systems, Self-organizing, Self-organizing systems, Stigmergic systems, Stigmergy
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Social Cognition, Artefacts, and Stigmergy revisited: Concepts of coordination
A number of different coordination concepts have been developed to explain how individual activities are coordinated on a social level, and the variety of concepts shows there is an interest in many domains to find such explanations. Stigmergy being one … Continue reading
Posted in Artifacts, Coordination, Social cognition, Stigmergy
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Distributed Cognition – A methodological note
Humans are closely coupled with their environments. They rely on being ‘embedded’ to help coordinate the use of their internal cognitive resources with external tools and resources. Consequently, everyday cognition, even cognition in the absence of others, may be viewed … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Coordination, Design theory, Distributed cognition, Distribution, Ethnography, Interaction
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Stigmergy in Human Practice: Coordination in Complex Work
Stigmergy is a concept of coordination that may be employed to analyse human practice in complex work settings such as the building process. However, the concept of stigmergy was not originally developed in order to describe human practice, rather it … Continue reading
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