Paper Info
Title
Towards the Use of Social Computing for Social Inclusion: An Overview of the Literature.
Abstract
Social computing constitutes a new computing paradigm in an interdisciplinary research community which will strongly influence informatics systems and applications in the years to come. Indeed, from a social perspective, considerable interest in examining the influences of Social Computing (SC) for Social Inclusion (SI) arises from researchers and designers. This paper addresses the existing literature on the use of SC for SI. Previous studies have been reviewed to report affordances of SC design in five different areas: (a) for the elderly, (b) for people with disabilities, (c) for gender studies, (d) for societal change, and (e) for the preservation of cultural heritage. Results from the literature overview provide some examples of applications of new technologies that were designed to reduce social exclusion. Our review further shows that the use of different tools used by different groups of people has a positive impact for those people who are either socially included or excluded from their use. However, further research is needed in these five directions, which are analysed in this document and direct research into the gaps identified.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1007/978-3-319-91743-6_28
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
Social computing,Social inclusion,Social exclusion,Assistive technologies,Disabilities,Elderly,Gender inequalities,Educational technology,Peace
Educational technology,Social group,Informatics,Cultural heritage,Public relations,Sociology,Social exclusion,Emerging technologies,Social computing,Social change
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
10924
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
28
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vaso Constantinou111.70
Panagiotis Kosmas212.38
Antigoni Parmaxi3368.90
Andri Ioannou47721.51
Iosif Klironomos5193.72
Margherita Antona617038.07
Constantine Stephanidis71800320.47
Panayiotis Zaphiris896990.13