Simulating Mutual Support Networks of Human and Artificial Agents

2018 ◽  
pp. 202-214
Author(s):  
Lenin Medeiros ◽  
Tibor Bosse ◽  
Jan Treur
Keyword(s):  
Support Networks ◽  
Artificial Agents ◽  
Mutual Support

scholarly journals Taking Care of Us from the Neighborhoods in Times of Quarantine. Citizen Solidarity Practices in Vallcarca, Barcelona (Spain)

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-245
Author(s):  
Ana Belén Cano-Hila ◽  
Rafel Argemí-Baldich
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Support Networks ◽  
Support Network ◽  
Mutual Support ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Care And Support ◽  
The World ◽  
The City

In the last weeks and months, COVID-19 has challenged and changed societies and social life around the world. In the case of Spain, the health crisis generated by the COVID-19 pandemic led to the declaration of a state of alert by the central government, which involved partial home confinement. Given this exceptional situation, neighborhood activation through mutual support networks has been very important in the city of Barcelona. This article describes and analyses, based on the method of autobiographical imagination, the example of a citizen solidarity practice Xarxa de Suport Mutu Vallcarca [Vallcarca mutual support network] in the Vallcarca neighborhood. Its main objective is to carry out actions of social support to palliate the effects of the confinement, fundamentally in the areas of care and support, as well as childhood and education. From 2008, the creativity of the neighborhoods and citizens has been a relevant motor and multiplier for social protection and change.

scholarly journals ON THE VERGE OF COLLAPSE. FRUSTRATION EXPERIENCES WITH NETWORKED MEDIA AND THE ROLE OF SOCIAL SUPPORT

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corinna Peil
Keyword(s):  
Transformation Process ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Support Networks ◽  
Mutual Support ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Commercial Media ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Media Environments

This proposal investigates experiences of frustration with networked media from a users’ perspective. It explores how these experiences are resolved and what role helping friends and family members play in this process. Experiences of frustrations refer to concrete problems in the use of networked media. The examination of their causes and elimination helps to better understand the socio-technical logics of commercial media technologies as well as their impact on everyday life. This study seeks to offer insights into societal power relations with regard to succeeding in and shaping the ongoing digital transformation process. It thus contributes to the wider field of digital inequalities research. Theoretically, my considerations are guided by the concept of media deconvergence which highlights the disorder and messiness of converging media environments. Furthermore, I am inspired by the domestication approach and by “broken world thinking" (Jackson 2014), which takes disruptions and failures as a starting point for analyzing socio-technical change. Insights into novel forms of expertise and changing constellations of support and neediness were gained on the basis of a qualitative study consisting of visualizations of support networks and their written reflection and explanation as well as guided interviews about expertise and mutual support in media usage.

Online Mutual Support for College Students

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Freeman ◽  
C. Barker ◽  
N. Pistrang
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Mutual Support

Role of Support Networks on Psychological and Academic Outcomes for Immigrant Youth

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Selcuk R. Sirin ◽  
Dalal Katsiaficas ◽  
Taveeshi Gupta ◽  
Gina Shedid
Keyword(s):  
Academic Outcomes ◽  
Immigrant Youth ◽  
Support Networks

An Electronic Study Form to Support Collaborating Agents in the Management of Clinical Knowledge

1999 ◽  
Vol 38 (03) ◽  
pp. 154-157
Author(s):  
W. Fierz ◽  
R. Grütter
Keyword(s):  
Procedural Knowledge ◽  
Health Care Provision ◽  
Markup Language ◽  
Artificial Agents ◽  
Care Provision ◽  
Clinical Knowledge ◽  
Extensible Markup ◽  
Implementation Level ◽  
Biological Organisms ◽  
Representation Of Knowledge

AbstractWhen dealing with biological organisms, one has to take into account some peculiarities which significantly affect the representation of knowledge about them. These are complemented by the limitations in the representation of propositional knowledge, i. e. the majority of clinical knowledge, by artificial agents. Thus, the opportunities to automate the management of clinical knowledge are widely restricted to closed contexts and to procedural knowledge. Therefore, in dynamic and complex real-world settings such as health care provision to HIV-infected patients human and artificial agents must collaborate in order to optimize the time/quality antinomy of services provided. If applied to the implementation level, the overall requirement ensues that the language used to model clinical contexts should be both human- and machine-interpretable. The eXtensible Markup Language (XML), which is used to develop an electronic study form, is evaluated against this requirement, and its contribution to collaboration of human and artificial agents in the management of clinical knowledge is analyzed.

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