MOVE: Measuring Ontologies in Value-seeking Environments: CSCW for Human Adaptation

Abstract

The interest in sharing the Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom (DIKW) continuum has been amplified by the latest multi-scale social changes including but not limited to pandemics, economic crises, climate change, and racial issues. This workshop aims to inspire research and discussion on measuring sharing of the DIKW continuum, including through computer-mediated methods, represented by its ontologies. The implied suggestion is that there are ways to improve human adaptation by social technologies that enable rapidly finding solutions for complex global situations. We therefore invite research on (1) ontologies as a medium that enables comparing and measuring the DIKW continuum, (2) ontologies and their convergence or divergence with the values that motivate and determine DIKW sharing, (3) properties and dynamics of ontologies shared via social technologies in their relation to human adaptation.