Descripción del proyecto
Una nueva plataforma de redes sociales para mejorar las interacciones humanas
Internet y las redes sociales hacen que sea más fácil que nunca conectarse y comunicarse con cualquier persona en cualquier parte del mundo. Sin embargo, esto no significa que la tecnología pueda apoyar, desarrollar o mantener las relaciones sociales que trascienden a los ámbitos geográfico y cultural. En este contexto, el equipo del proyecto financiado con fondos europeos WeNet desarrollará una tecnología que favorezca unas interacciones sociales más profundas a través de una inteligencia artificial consciente de la diversidad. Construirá perfiles de diversidad basados en el comportamiento y las interacciones de las personas en el pasado. Para conectar a las personas «adecuadas», utilizará modelos de aprendizaje que construyan perfiles de diversidad. La promoción de la conciencia de la diversidad permitirá unas interacciones sociales más profundas.
Objetivo
"Diversity permeates our everyday life and covers many dimensions, such as competence, culture, gender or economic across humans and social relations. Technology has evolved to a point where humans from diverse backgrounds, cultures, and experiences have an unprecedented ability to connect with each other. Yet technology does not in-and-by-itself provide support for developing and maintaining the social relationships that transcend geographical and cultural backgrounds. WeNet addresses this gap by providing a diversity-aware, machine-mediated paradigm of social relations. The goal is connecting people that can support each other, and the key is leveraging their diversity. The WeNet paradigm includes a family of computational diversity-aware models supporting human interaction. Learning models construct diversity profiles based on people's past behaviour and interactions. A diversity-aware search builds upon these profiles to connect the ""right"" people together. To support people’s interactions, a diversity alignment mechanism lifts communication barriers to ensure that messages between humans are interpreted correctly, and a diversity-aware incentive mechanism generates incentives to motivate people to support each other. The entire paradigm is developed taking into consideration ethical guidelines. The WeNet platform provides the technological infrastructure to set out a series of studies that will be carried within universities worldwide with diverse student populations, and with the final goal of improving students' quality of life inside and outside the academic environment. Beyond universities, WeNet's innovative paradigm impacts human interactions in general, especially those that may benefit from a collaborative approach (creative industries, medical diagnosis, ...). The WeNet consortium will develop a research infrastructure that will allow the exploitation of the project results and strengthen the European innovation eco-system in a worldwide perspective."
Ámbito científico
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Programa(s)
Convocatoria de propuestas
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H2020-FETPROACT-2018-01
Régimen de financiación
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinador
38122 Trento
Italia