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SUMMARY:The neighbourhood game - Panayotis Antoniadis (ETH)
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CONTACT:Eiko Yoneki
DESCRIPTION:The rapid advances of information and communication technologi
 es (or\nICTs) and the mass online\nparticipation have increased the expect
 ations for the long awaited visions of e-participation and e-democracy. Ho
 wever\, there are still many challenges that need to be addressed related 
 to privacy\, data ownership and control\, and various types of digital div
 ides. \nPerhaps the most fundamental\nrequirement is the need for informat
 ion exchange between parties that do not necessarily share common interest
 s\, education\, and cultural backgrounds. To achieve this\, ICT could sign
 ificantly help if designers understand in depth the way technology affects
  behaviour in the evolving hybrid (virtual and physical) space of modern c
 ities\, and communities are empowered to choose the tools that are most su
 itable for their environment and configure them according to their own val
 ues and objectives\; if they claim their "right to the hybrid city". In th
 is presentation I will introduce a research framework connecting two relat
 ively remote until today disciplines\, namely behavioural economics and ur
 ban planning\, through the mediation of computer science. More specificall
 y\, I will describe a long-term social learning process evolved around a c
 onfigurable ICT framework\, the NetHood Toolkit\, which will support a wid
 e variety of hybrid interactions between people in physical proximity. The
  definition of a specific set of formal information sharing games subject 
 to various configuration options based on the specific environment\, can t
 hen form the basis for real life experimentation with potential benefits b
 oth for understanding human behaviour and for reaching important social ob
 jectives.\n\n\nBio: Panayotis Antoniadis is a lecturer and senior research
 er at ETH Zurich. \nHis main research contributions\nto date are in the ec
 onomic modelling and incentive mechanisms for peer-to-peer systems\, inclu
 ding file sharing\, community wireless networks\, and shared virtualized i
 nfrastructures\, and in distributed scheduling algorithms for high-speed s
 witches. He is currently pursuing an interdisciplinary research agenda on 
 the role of social software and wireless networks for the design of sustai
 nable hybrid neighborhood communities (project nethood). Panayotis receive
 d his Ph.D. degree from the Athens University of Economics and Business in
  2006\, and until 2012 he was a post-doc researcher at UPMC Sorbonne Unive
 rsites in Paris.\n
LOCATION:LT2\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Builiding
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