Social Mirror
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Social Mirror is social checkup technology for people and organisations. Together with Gaia Marcus at the UK Royal Society of Arts, I developed prototype tablet software to collect information about people's relational well-being. Our first prototype collected information about the connectedness of MIT Media Lab sponsor companies.
In 2013, with funding from the Nominet Trust, the help of ace developer Laurian Gridinoc, the Knowle West Media Centre and a participating group in the National Health Service, we're running a pilot with young people and elderly people on the idea using network surveys to support "social prescriptions."
Read more:
- My article for PBS: Top 12 Social Technologies from the MIT Media Lab and Beyond
- socialmirror.org.uk/
- NHS report on Social Prescribing
- Power Lines, the RSA's excellent report on a multi-year series of social network studies they conducted on citizen-led service delivery.