SOCIONICS: Introduction and Potential

SOCIONICS is an interdisciplinary research framework which has been recently established for six years by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Up to 16 projects cooperating in a tandem-structure with at least one partner from Computer Science and one from Sociology will form a virtual research unit powered by the DFG. This report gives a brief introduction to Socionics and its basic research questions. A short discussion about the potentials and applications of a socionic based technology is presented.