MAGIC in The Science of Complex Systems

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MAGIC in The Science of Complex Systems

• Jeffrey Johnson
• Department of Design Innovation
• The Open University
• www.design.open.ac.uk/johnson
• j.h.johnson_at_open.ac.uk

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Complexity Science Multimedia
Art
Games
Interactivity Creativity
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Complexity Science needs MAGIC - Health
organisms cancer, (dis)organisation? - Peace
Iraq Iran?, Water? Nuclear Technology? -
Internet Evolution? Ultimate Google? Poverty?
- Cities Transport?, Housing?, Services? -
Climate Change CO2 ? Economies? Development?
- Design and Policy? Designing the Future? -
Economics, Management, Business, Markets, etc,
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• Complexity Science needs MAGIC
• reconstructing the dynamics of systems from data
  
• - point predictions impossible in CS? new
  science
• - CS are computationally irreducible - just
  formulae - simplistic
• - CS behaviour emerges from interaction

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• Complexity Science needs MAGIC
• reconstructing the dynamics of systems from data
  
• - point predictions impossible in CS? new
  science
• - CS are computationally irreducible - just
  formulae - simplistic
• - CS behaviour emerges from interaction
• simulation is a major tool
• - can you trust it? representation? models?
  transformation?

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• Complexity Science needs MAGIC
• reconstructing the dynamics of systems from data
  
• - point predictions impossible in CS? new
  science
• - CS are computationally irreducible - just
  formulae - simplistic
• - CS behaviour emerges from interaction
• simulation is a major tool
• - can you trust it? representation? models?
  transformation?
• visual analytics
• - seeing communicating
• graphics precedes formal science

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Complexity Science Multimedia HCI for
Gigantic distributed data sets
Art Games
Interactivity
Creativity
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Complexity Science Multimedia HCI for
Gigantic distributed data sets
Art Exploring-challenging Art
as Science Games
Interactivity
Creativity
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Complexity Science Multimedia HCI for
Gigantic distributed data sets
Art Exploring-challenging Art as
Science Games Simulation of
Artificial Realities
Interactivity Creativity
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Complexity Science Multimedia HCI for
Gigantic distributed data sets
Art Exploring-challenging Art as
Science Games Simulation of
Artificial Realities
Interactivity Could-be Worlds
Creativity
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Complexity Science Multimedia HCI for
Gigantic distributed data sets
Art Exploring-challenging Art as
Science Games Simulation of
Artificial Realities
Interactivity Could-be Worlds
Creativity New Science !
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Thank you
Professor Jeff Johnson j.h.johnson_at_open.ac.uk