Socially intelligent computing — A survey of an emerging field for empowering crowd

Socially Intelligent Computing (SIC) is a new emerging field that refers to the recent efforts of crowd computing to understand the ways in which systems of human intelligence across the globe and social networks can work together as efficiently as a giant machine. These systems result in new behaviors, and will prove useful as intermediaries between human intelligence and technological forms used by humans. In this paper we discuss the motivations behind crowd computing, introduce some of its concepts, and review the common methodologies employed to harness human intelligence in computing areas. We also shed some light on our research which focuses mainly on end-user crowd-based applications´ development. We present the research challenges and project on how SIC can be extended to support the end-user during the whole of the life-cycle of crowd-based applications, from requirements elicitation to evolution. Lastly, future research challenges are discussed, as well as our vision to contribute to SIC.