Enabling Crowd-Scale Deliberation For Complex Problems
Abstract
Humanity now finds itself faced with the need to solve many highly complex problems ~ such as climate change, international security, and economic issues ~ that inherently require integrating the expertise and preferences of tens, hundreds or even thousands of individuals as well as government, civic, economic and other entities (what we will call ~crowds~). Existing technologies,such as social media, for supporting such crowd-scale deliberations are notorious, however, for producing highly sub-optimal solutions at high cost.The objective of this project is to develop innovative new technologies that enable large numbers of people (10~s, 100~s or more) to deliberate (define, evaluate and agree upon solutions) much more effectively around complex and large-scale problems. Our technical approach will be to (1) integrate and extend Dr. Klein~s two flagship projects: the Deliberatorium project for eliciting solutions from crowds, and the complex negotiation project for helping crowds quickly reach pareto-optimal agreements with large solution spaces, and (2) assess and refine this work through a series of increasingly large-scale evaluations with complex real-world challenges, This work, if successful, has a very wide range of potential applications. Computer-supported deliberation mechanisms promise to help us make better decisions for critical and challenging problems ranging from design in engineering organizations to strategic decision-making inboardrooms, and from operations planning in the military to policy/legislation design in government agencies.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Jun 13, 2019
- Source ID
- N000141912362
Entities
People
- Mark Klein
Organizations
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy