COINs17
7th International Conference on Collaborative Innovation Networks
RESILIENCE THROUGH COINs

September 14th -17th 2017
Detroit, Michigan, USAWorkshops
Optimizing Impact: Why Not Me?
Kavya Davuluri and Sergio Rodriguez
Description - Through this workshop, participants are able to understand what social
innovation is, what the process behind it is, how attainable it is for all, and how vital it is to ourworld. The workshop is a condensed version of all the workshops within the annual Social
Innovation Challenge at Wayne State University. Initially, a dyadic encounter allows us togenerate the sense of community needed for innovation to thrive. Following an understandingof immersive engagement, participants participate in a visioning session to discover deeper
capacities and ideas before they understand the aspects to being an innovator. Ultimately, weask the question of all participants to stop waiting for someone else to change the world, tounderstand and grasp social entrepreneurship, and to ask themselves, “Why not me?”1) 10
minutes: Participants enter room, picking up an index card with a number on it. Everyone adds
three to the number on their card, and has to find the person with that number. Any left overpeople match up with each other.
Workshop Facilitators:• Kavya Davuluri was born in a small village in India 20 years ago. Today, she finds herself apsychology, Spanish, and public health student at Wayne State University. Kavya is also asocial innovator; she founded OptimizeWayne, is creating a pipeline program for Detroit highschool students, and is developing an innovation program to be based out of TechTown withthe Office of Economic Development. She is an avid reader, lame-joke cracker, and enjoys
taking online personality questionnaires, meditating, and hearing others’ stories.
• Sergio Rodriguez is from Grosse Pointe Park where he attended Grosse Pointe SouthHighschool and recently graduated with a B.S. in Biomedical Physics from Wayne State
University. Throughout his undergraduate studies, Sergio pursued casual labor jobs to pay forhis college tuition and was able to graduate debt free. He decided to start his company,
ToDoolie, because he saw it as an opportunity for students to save for their monetary goals
while helping homeowners in need. In his free time he enjoys grappling, playing with his cat
Felix and taking long walks on the beach.
Maximum Number of Participants: preferably no more than 35.

Measuring and Increasing the Happiness of COINs with the Happimeter
Pascal Budner, Joscha Eirich and Peter Gloor
Description: In this two-hour workshop we will introduce a novel device, the happimeter, toinstantaneously measure individual happiness. We are using commercially available
smartwatches to build a body sensing system that can measure individual mood states andinteractions between people. It consists of a Pebble smartwatch, and a smartphone app. We areintegrating the smartwatch with each user’s smartphone to access the phone’s location sensing
and data transmission capacity, as well as its processing power. The smartwatches provide dataon the body movement through accelerometer, lighting level and heart rate. Unlike sociometricbadges, which we have used in earlier experiments, the watches are designed to be worn
constantly, naturally and non-intrusively, and their rechargeable batteries have robust charge
length. Their displays also enable easy two-way communication to give status updates towearers.
Workshop Facilitators: Pascal Budner is a graduate student in information systems at the facultyof management, economics, and social sciences at the University of Cologne, where he also
obtained his undergraduate degree. Joscha Eirich is a graduate student in business administration
with emphasis on statistics at the University of Bamberg, where he also obtained hisundergraduate degree. Peter Gloor is a research scientist at the MIT Center for CollectiveIntelligence, where he leads a project on Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs).
Maximum number of participants: 40Workshop length: 2 hours
Generating Societal Vision based on the Social Systems Theory
Haruka Mori, Norihiko Kimura, Takashi Iba, Yuzuki Oka, Konomi Munakata, Namino Sakama,Kazuki Toba
Description: In this workshop, we provide an opportunity to learn the essence of the significant
sociological theory, and to practice our new method to generate a vision from it. This method
enables you to imagine the influence of the innovation to various areas outside the target domainof the innovation. In our era, many technological innovations and social issues being occurredthan ever, our society has been being increasingly complex and opacity, which makes it difficult
to see through the societal future.In order to design a society of a better future, it is essential tohave visions of the future society to aim for, as these intense changes and complicated problems
arise. In this context, we present the method of generating future society visions while
understanding society as a whole, referring to the social system theory by the sociologist Niklas
Luhmann. The theory considers society as an autopoietic system whose element iscommunication, and modern society as a set of functional systems, such as politics, economics,law and science. To analyze these systems, Luhmann adopts the functional method, which ischaracterized as equivalent functionalism, making possible to seek and compare another virtualfunctionally equivalent alternatives. What we will do is to present the visions based on thefunctions and communication of each functionally differentiated system. Drawing visions of decentered modern society will be possible by (1) analyzing the problem from the viewpoint of eachfunctional system, (2) drawing each vision, (3) comparing and integrating them. You will
experience how to generate vision toward the future with a worksheet utilizing social systemtheory. You will collaborate with other participants to brainstorm ideas for societal vision throughexamining current systems. We will compare and integrate the visions from each system's
viewpoint which the participants have worked on, to get the vision of societal wholeness.
Benefits for participants:• Be able to understand the framework of the social systems theory• Be able to see the effect of innovation you work on to other domains• Be able to involve people to draw a vision to aim for• Be able to live your life with your vision
Workshop length: 2 hours
Maximum Number of Participants: 20Workshop Facilitators• Haruka Mori, Faculty of Policy and Management, Keio University, Japan• Norihiko Kimura, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, Japan• Takashi Iba, Faculty of Policy and Management, Keio University, Japan
Support Members• Yuzuki Oka, Faculty of Environment and information Studies, Keio University, Japan• Konomi Munakata, Faculty of Environment and information Studies, Keio University,Japan• Namino Sakama, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, Japan• Kazuki Toba, Faculty of Policy and Management, Keio University, Japan
Short Bio of the Workshop Facilitators:
Haruka Mori studies in the Faculty of Policy Management at Keio University. While she studies
under Professor Takashi Iba, she had been creating practical patterns aiming to make peoples’
lives more lively and creative. She is one of the authors of Project Design Patterns, which waspublished in AsianPLoP2016 and PUARL2016, and also as a book in 2016. Through her life in Chinaand India, she got interested in the quality of being creative. She works on media arts, digital
fabrication, design and ad tech.
Norihiko Kimura is a student who belongs to the Graduate School of Media and Governance. Heis a member of Professor Takashi Iba’s laboratory. He researches on the methodology for creating
future vision of community and society. He has organized some future language workshops forcampus building and community building. He has also researched on the process of creating
pattern language called agile pattern creation, in Student Build Campus Project, which is a new
campus-planning project of Keio University (2015).
Takashi Iba is an associate professor in the Faculty of Policy Management at Keio University. He
received a Ph.D. in Media and Governance from Keio University. He is the president ofCreativeShift Lab, Inc. and a board member of The Hillside Group. Collaborating with his students,
Dr. Iba created many pattern languages concerning human actions like Learning Patterns (2014),

Presentation Patterns (2014), Collaboration Patterns (2014), Words for a Journey (2015), ProjectDesign Patterns (2016) and also academic books in Japanese such as the bestselling Introduction
to Complex Systems (1998).