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Topics include the US government permitting use of a part of the wireless spectrum that promises to improve mobile communications, a worm that attacks industrial plants, a muscle-based interface, and pajamas with sensors that monitor babies' vital signs and behavior.
Technology-mediated social participation systems can dramatically change the way science, government, healthcare, entertainment, and enterprise operate. Using research from several fields, we can learn how to design better TMSP systems and to better integrate lessons learned in practice back into theory.
Researching and evaluating social media initiatives is essential to encourage usage, continually improve the tools and policies governing their use, and develop governance processes that incorporate social media participation in its many forms.
Technology-mediated social-participation systems, such as Wikipedia and TopCoder, allow a vast user base to collaborate to solve difficult problems. TMSP could be applied to many current social issues, but doing so requires new theory and infrastructure for social design.
The paper mentions that social media technologies that began as discretionary and playful have the potential to transform national issues including healthcare, the environment, and media literacy. These loftier goals require a closer look at challenges such as privacy and the ethical use of technology.
Computer scientists are working with biomedical researchers, policy specialists, and medical practitioners to usher in a new era in healthcare. A recently convened panel of experts considered various research opportunities for technology-mediated social participation in Health 2.0.
The role of HP Labs, the central research arm of Hewlett-Packard, is to look beyond the roadmap of currently offered products and services and solve some exciting technical problems that will be critical to customers. The paper mentions that active collaboration with academic, commercial, and government partners augments and accelerates knowledge creation and technology transfer.
Extensive research is needed to build upon currently used media and tools to foster wider participation, address national priorities, and deal with potential dangers associated with technology-mediated social participation.
An ambitious TMSP education program which recognizes that learners fall into multiple categories, will facilitate training people to participate in the complex interplay between social participation and technical systems.
Users' computing behavior is very complex, and capturing it fully is a true Grand Challenge. Yet it seems obvious that if we can predict that behavior more accurately, we could design more energy-efficient systems. We must leverage behavioral information in both directions. On one hand, we need to understand how people interact with computers and design software and hardware that make interaction...
Despite several outstanding issues, Web services technology is ideal for solving systems integration problems. Systems integration refers to the seamless interconnection of data and control flows among legacy and other applications to support transaction-intensive processes. This is a significant issue for organizations as they attempt to reduce cycle times, face increasing competition, and respond...
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