Human Factors in Cyber-Physical Social Systems: Leveraging Social Sensor Data
Sulayman K. Sowe, Koji Zettsu · Frontiers in artificial intelligence and applications · 2016
Cyber-Physical Social Systems (CPSS) are transforming how we live and interact with the physical world by semantically linking devices, data, and people. However, while tremendous progress have been made in modelling various CPSS physical components such as sensors and actuators, the involvement of humans in CPSS poses additional challenges for conceptual modelling experts and systems designers. Part of the problem is due to the fact that, even though humans sense, actuate, and process information like other CPSS component, they do these things differently. Furthermore, it is difficult to exactly know, in advance, how the human entity will interact with a CPSS. In this paper, we present a framework for modelling human's involvement in CPSS. Use cases, lessons learnt, and challenges we face in using the framework to develop a CPSS for research and development in the environmental sciences are also discussed.