Anthropocentric data systems
Peter Triantafillou · Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment · 2011
Arguably, it all started with Mike Dertouzos' vision on the Information Marketplace [2]. Then, an explosion occurred. Social networks. Social computing. Social software. Groupware. Shareware. Open-source software. Personalized query answering and personalized information systems. Tagging. Folksonomies. Log and clickstream mining. Recommender systems. Crowdsourcing. Human-in-the loop and human-centered systems. Provably, these buzzwords have dominated the academic landscape within the data systems (and not only) community. There is a fundamental paradigm shift going on here. The old world, where the human was simply a passive user, has given way to a new world where humans contribute data, (storage, communication, and compute) resources, and software. Further, recently, humans take on tasks that actually alleviate and improve the jobs performed by machines and recent research from different domains have started looking into this realm where humans and computers share tasks, collaborating to achieve goals [4, 12, 11, 6, 1]!