Lumen community behaviour
Signals gathered as people participate, interact and make decisions in communities using ELO products.
Explore Lumen ↗01 / A RESEARCH SYSTEM
FROM OBSERVED BEHAVIOUR
TO OPEN QUESTIONS.
Communities and games produce a stream of decisions. ELO Labs studies those signals, looks for relationships and builds experiments to find out what they might mean.
The lab brings together data gathered through Lumen, open gaming data and ELO’s developing AI model. The research starts in gaming and asks where the same understanding could matter next.
01Observe behaviour in context
02Build models around real signals
03Test what may apply elsewhere
02 / THE MATERIAL
THREE DATA
LAYERS.
Proprietary community behaviour gathered through Lumen meets gaming data and open context. Together, these inputs give ELO a richer basis for studying how people act.
CONCEPTUAL VIEW / NOT A DATASET
LUMEN COMMUNITY DATA · GAMES, DEMOS & FILES · OPEN DATA & CONTEXT
Games, demos & files
Open-source game demos, gameplay records and other available signals from play.
Open data & context
Public information to interpret a signal and place it in a wider setting.
03 / AN INTERACTIVE METHOD
HOW OUR
SIMULATION
WORKS.
They meet the scenario and react to it and to each other.
Simulation lets us explore how a group might respond to a changing situation. This animation is illustrative: it shows the question the lab studies, not a live output or measured dataset.
Explore Simulation →CONCEPTUAL MODEL / SCENARIO STUDY
HOW OUR SIMULATION WORKS: THEY MEET THE SCENARIO AND REACT TO IT AND TO EACH OTHER
04 / THE UNDERLYING INTELLIGENCE
BUILT AROUND
BEHAVIOUR.
Altiera is ELO’s developing AI model. Labs investigates how proprietary behavioural data, gaming data and context could shape what the model can understand and where it may be useful.
INPUTSLumen + game data
→ELO MODELAltiera
→R&DPatterns + experiments
→OPEN QUESTIONWhat could come next?
IN DEVELOPMENT / RESEARCH DIRECTION, NOT A PRODUCT PROMISE
05 / RESEARCH TERRITORIES
QUESTIONS WORTH
TESTING.
Not product lines. Areas where behaviour, simulation and machine intelligence might open useful questions.
Behavioural intelligence
How people communicate, cooperate, compete and decide together.
↗Machine intelligence
Specialised models shaped around behavioural data.
↗Gaming data
What play and communities reveal about behaviour.
↗Simulation
Whether observed behaviour helps explore possible behaviour.
↗Human systems
Where understanding group behaviour could matter beyond gaming.
↗06 / THE LAB INDEX
WORK IN PROGRESS
IS THE POINT.
Questions change as the research develops. These areas describe what the lab is investigating, not a release roadmap.
Community signals
Patterns inside the places people already gather.
ACTIVEAltiera
An intelligence model shaped around behaviour.
IN DEVELOPMENTGame data
Behaviour recorded inside structured worlds.
EXPLORINGSimulation
Testing questions against modelled behaviour.
EXPLORINGSTATUS DESCRIBES THE QUESTION, NOT A PRODUCT RELEASE.
07 / AN OPEN HORIZON
GAMING IS THE
STARTING POINT.
Gaming gives the lab structured environments and rich behaviour. The wider question is where this understanding of people and groups could matter beyond entertainment.
Sport
How do teams adapt under pressure?
Entertainment
How do audiences form shared momentum?
Education
How do groups learn and help one another?
Enterprise
How do people respond when a system changes?
POSSIBLE LINES OF INQUIRY. NOT A ROADMAP.
THE WORK CONTINUES
KEEP LOOKING.
ELO Labs is research and development by ELO Collective.
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