Characterization and typologies of CAPs (Collective Awareness Platforms)

This document encompasses research activity for an evolving interdisciplinary understanding of Collective Awareness Platforms between the research team members. D1 incorporates different dimensions of (viewpoints to) collective awareness, including the market-, socio-psychological, and cognitive ones to a generic characterization of CAPs in terms of attributes such as structure, incentives, purpose, privacy issues, and reliability. Indeed, it precedes the related activity under D2 (“Collective Awareness Platforms: Privacy, incentives, and market dimensions”) which explicates these dimensions. Within the activity under D1, 68 instances of CAPs were preliminarily analyzed and, based on that, a survey was developed that is currently administered to CAPs coordinators to detect the perceived importance of other relevant dimensions such as topic, cost, payoff, privacy, reputation and community structure.