Enhancing Resilience of Smart Cities through Cognitive Computing Technology
Summary:
| The resilience of a modern society comprises both infrastructure and social resilience. Social and cognitive factors are essential for making a populated area such as a city, more resilient. Smart cities allow for the integration of cognitive computing technology and cognitive engineering approaches with the goal of improving the quality of human decision-making, e.g., less error-prone and faster. This simultaneously fosters sense-making and cognition at organizational and community levels, and helps to prevent, mitigate, respond to and recover from potential disruptions. We will demonstrate and discuss examples including improving cognitive resilience in control rooms through cognition-aware human computer interaction, and detecting weak signals in social networks. In addition, we will show how social media can be integrated with machine learning and natural language processing techniques to obtain public opinions towards government policies, which can be used as effective feedback for policy adjustment so as to achieve improved social resilience. |
Speakers:
Jonas Jörin
Kezhi Mao
Martin Raubal
Majeed Khader