Strategies for Empowering Collective Design

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Empowering the Community: Information Strategies for Pollution Control

Disclosure strategies, which involve public and/or private attempts to increase the availability of information on pollution, form the basis for what some have called the third wave in pollution control policy (after legal regulation--the first wave--and market-based instruments --the second wave). While these strategies have become commonplace in natural resource settings (forest certification...

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Design Templates for Collective Behavior

While sequential behavior of single objects is fairly well understood, orchestrating the collective behavior emerging from the behaviors of individual objects continues to be a challenging task. This is especially true for distributed reactive systems. The joint action paradigm is a design methodology that concentrates on the collective behavior of objects. Aspects of collective behavior are gr...

Design Considerations for Collective Remembering

This paper identifies four design issues for Collective Remembering (CR). We first review the current main areas where CR is being explored, namely organisational memory, sociable sharing and reflective sharing, and for each identify key challenges. We apply Clark’s (1996) Common Ground framework for communication to understand these different aspects of sharing. We use this framework to identi...