Individual attention-slice status updates, using social media now accessible via mobile-communications across the globe, can help provide data for... » More

Individual attention-slice status updates, using social media now accessible via mobile-communications across the globe, can help provide data for information-theory based models of evolving complexity with deep roots in the mathematical, physical, and biological sciences.

In particular, status-update tools for reporting the fraction of one's attention spent taking care of matters that look inward and outward from skin, family, and culture can provide powerful, and eventually objective, information about the impact of policy changes and disasters on neighborhood, regional, and global community health.

You can find more about this Scientific-American WCI-Electronics video by M. E. Ordway and P. Fraundorf on the web at http://newton.umsl.edu//philf/slice.html. Soundtrack is the cc-licensed Maybe by DoKashiteru.

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