一类新研究正在进行,如果一间办公室里的座位、墙壁,甚至咖啡壶的位置都是由数据决定的,会发生什么?我们能够利用有关人的数据来改变物理现实,甚至是实时地改变,从而改善人们在工作或生活中的表现吗?一个正在发展中的领域“增强社交现实”提出了这样的问题。举个简单的例子。数年前,我与媒体实验室桑迪·彭特兰(Sandy Pentland)的人类动态研究团队一道,创造了一个我称之为“增强小隔间”的东西:两张办公桌由一块 A new kind of research is going on. What happens if the location of a seat, a wall, or even a coffee pot in an office is data-driven? We can change the physical reality with data about people, and even change in real time So as to improve people’s performance at work or in life? A growing area “Social empowerment” raises such questions. Give a simple example. A few years ago, I worked with the Human Dynamics Research Team at Sandy Pentland in the Media Lab to create what I would call a “cubicle”: two desks