Solid and Social Media Bots

Solid Community Group,

Described below is a social media bot scenario where users’ social media data is processed to facilitate and to improve the performance of integrated recommender system components. I would like to request that social media bots be a supported use case scenario for Solid technologies so that social media bots can provide value to users while protecting users’ data privacy.

A recent research article of mine, Artificial Wisdom [1], pertains to search engines and recommender systems for: anecdotes, proverbs, quotations, lyrics, poetry, narratives (e.g. parables, allegories), and humor. I refer to these materials as wisdom materials.

Wisdom materials can be sent to users via a number of possible channels (e.g. social media websites, instant messenger applications, e-mail). Such materials could be provided to users daily, quote-of-the-day services, or on an as-needed basis, whenever a social media bot determines that a wisdom material could provide value to a user.

To ensure that recommended wisdom materials provide value to users, systems could utilize users’ social media posts and other content to obtain context data. Systems could process users’ posts and content including to estimate users’ affect or complex mental states. Should a user indicate that they are sad, utilizing a status update or by otherwise sharing that information, in a post, with their friends and a social media bot, the social media bot could send one or more wisdom materials to cheer up the user.

Recommender systems for wisdom materials, operating at scale, could learn and improve over the course of time. Users could be provided with a number of options for providing feedback with respect to wisdom material recommendations. Systems could also process users’ social media posts and content before, during and after encounters with recommended wisdom materials. Did a recommended wisdom material provide value to, e.g. cheer up, a user in a context?

I would like to request that social media bots be a supported use case scenario for Solid technologies so that social media bots can provide value to users while protecting users’ data privacy.


Best regards,
Adam Sobieski

[1] http://www.phoster.com/artificial-wisdom/