Invited Speeches

Cyber-Individual (Cyber-I) is the counterpart of a real individual (Real-I) in the physical world. It is a comprehensive digital description and an alive entity of an individual human, and can be regarded partially as a Real-I´s digital clone residing in the digital cyber world, as if another you in another world. Emphases of Cyber-I research are to systematically study comprehensive individual modeling based on ubiquitous data aggregations, and to make individual-aware applications for provisions of desired services to everyone living in the hyper world. Certainly, this research covers, intersects, overlaps with, and even joins other related studies in AI, user modeling, agent technology, virtual reality, robotics, and so forth. Features of Cyber-I are that (1) it enables a Real-I to have a new form of existence in the cyber world and experience a symbiotic relationship with its Cyber-I, (2) it demands for individual human modeling which is far beyond conventional user modeling, (3) it provides a long-term and integrated research area to aggregate multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies as well as a variety of technologies, and (4) it brings new computing modes for personalized services (e.g., individual-aware search engine) and other novel applications (e.g., suitable service discovery, life prolong and community simulation).