Routines, habits, work patterns and social practices are all concepts that to some extend try to encapsulate the idea of behavior that is repeated regularly and tends to occur unconsciously. These patterns of behavior often go unnoticed by the persons exhibiting it, because they do not need to engage in self-analysis when undertaking routine tasks.
This lack of consciousness of people performing routines makes it interesting and challenging to captures them in a computational model. There are two ways of looking at routines: the ostensive (how people conceptualise and reason about routines) and the performative (what people actually do when performing what we might call routines). These two layers make the modelling more complex.
Nonetheless modeling habits and routines recently has moved high on the modeling agenda, e.g. in terms of modeling the effect of policies designed to change “bad” behavior (e.g. away from non-green habits). Models incorporating he notion of routines and habits might be especially helpful in illuminating the mechanisms underlying the emergence and evolution of these social phenomena and this might give insights on how to change the patterns of what we do.
We invite contributions from all research disciplines that either:
describe computational models of routines, work patterns, habits, social practices and related concepts, or
discuss modeling approaches for social concepts such as routines, work patterns, habits, social practices and related concepts
describe case studies or data sets that would be particularly amenable to their modelling