Enhancing Group Social Perceptiveness through a Swarm-based Decision-Making Platform

• DOI: 10.24251/hicss.2019.061
• Publication Date: 2019-03-29T19:08:34Z
• Authors: David Askay; Lynn Metcalf; Louis Rosenberg; Gregg Willcox
• Keywords: Swarm intelligence; Group Decision Making; Swarm Robotics; Collective Intelligence; Flock

Swarm Intelligence is natural phenomenon that enables social animals to make group decisions in real-time systems. This process has been deeply studied fish schools, bird flocks, and bee swarms, where collective intelligence observed emerge. The present paper describes swarm.ai—a collaborative technology swarms of humans collectively converge upon a decision as system. Then we the results study investigating if groups working "human swarms" can amplify their perceptiveness, key predictor intelligence. Results showed reduced perceptiveness errors by more than half when operating swarm. A statistical analysis revealed with 99.9% confidence had significantly higher either individuals alone or through plurality vote.