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IT Supported Collaborative Creative Work

IT Supported Collaborative Creative Work. Andy Williams GE393 – DEG April 19, 2004. Motivation. Need to Enhance Creativity Creativity is a Group Process Work is Increasingly IT Based Information is Key to Innovation Wealth of Information is Overwhelming. Overview. The Creative Process

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IT Supported Collaborative Creative Work

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  1. IT Supported Collaborative Creative Work Andy Williams GE393 – DEG April 19, 2004

  2. Motivation • Need to Enhance Creativity • Creativity is a Group Process • Work is Increasingly IT Based • Information is Key to Innovation • Wealth of Information is Overwhelming

  3. Overview • The Creative Process • IT in Support of the Creative Process • IT to Enhance the Creative Process • Examples • The Future

  4. The Creative Process • Preparation • Incubation • Illumination • Implementation

  5. IT in Support • Support and Match non-IT Based Processes • Support various modes: synchronous, asynchronous, and parallel

  6. Supporting Preparation • Collect Information of Various Medias • Organize Information • Forum for Multiple Users • Creativity Methods

  7. Supporting Incubation • Interface to Review Information • Ability to Walk Away and Come Back • Ability to Interact with Others

  8. Supporting Illumination • Means to Communicate Insight to Others

  9. Supporting Implementation • Capture Steps to Solution • Facilitate Team-Based Work

  10. IT to Enhance Creativity • Wouldn’t it be great if computers could… • Help us be creative • Help us work better in teams

  11. Enhancing Preparation • Organize Data in Unique Ways • Allow All Forms of Media • Suggest/Enhance Creativity Techniques • Virtual Teams and Parallel Development

  12. Enhancing Incubation • Ready To Go • Human Guided IT Incubation • Centralized DB, Pulls From Past Work

  13. Enhancing Illumination • “Mine” Data to Make Suggestions • Fitness Judgments - Assessments • TRIZ • Bisociations

  14. Enhancing Implementation • Integrates with CAD, Project, etc. • Estimates Value and Cost • Reporting and Distribution of Information

  15. Review • Tools would support current process • Tools would enhance creativity and innovation (value-based creativity) • Support various modes: synchronous, asynchronous, and parallel • Centralized Intelligent DB

  16. MetaChart • German Research Group • Tool-Based Support for Local and Multi-Location Sessions • PC-like = Objects, Containers, Icons • Support for creativity methods – mindmapping, meta structuring, etc.

  17. MetaChart • Relationships • Nesting • Connections

  18. MetaChart • Large Interactive Wall • Objects and Freehand Input • Tablet and PDA • Simultaneously Peer-to-Peer and Group Based

  19. MetaChart • Creation – Creativity Methods • Structuring – Tree Based Tools • Data – Browse, Import, Export

  20. i-LAND • More Creative Germans… • Focus is integrating information space with architectural space • Ad hoc teamwork • Hypermedia functionality

  21. i-LAND • Roomware – integrated into the working environment • DynaWall • InteracTable • CommChairs

  22. i-LAND • Supports Brainstorming • ‘Thoughtscapes’ • ‘Passage’ of objects and virtual world

  23. Key Graphs and DISCUS • Innovation Support System • Human and Computer Generated Knowledge • Human-Human and Human-Machine Collaboration

  24. Key Graphs and DISCUS • Human Based and Interactive Genetic Algorithms • Flexible Data Mining • Chance Discovery – Key Graphs

  25. Review / Summary • Support/Enhance Group Creativity • Hypermedia and Roomware • Handle / Synthesize Information • Machine-based Creativity

  26. Sources • Streitz, et al. i-LAND: An interactive Landscape for Creativity and Innovation. CHI ’99 Summary • Schlegel, et al. MetaChart – Using Creativity Methods in a CSCW Environment. HCI Theory and Practice II. 2003. • Goldberg, et al. DISCUS: Distributed Innovation and Scalable Collaboration In Uncertain Settings. IlliGAL Report No. 2003017. June 2003.

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