Transcript IT Supported Collaborative Creative Work

IT Supported
Collaborative Creative
Work
Andy Williams
GE393 – DEG
April 19, 2004
Motivation
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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
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The Creative Process
IT in Support of the Creative Process
IT to Enhance the Creative Process
Examples
The Future
The Creative Process
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Preparation
Incubation
Illumination
Implementation
IT in Support
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Support and Match non-IT Based
Processes
Support various modes: synchronous,
asynchronous, and parallel
Supporting Preparation
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Collect Information of Various Medias
Organize Information
Forum for Multiple Users
Creativity Methods
Supporting Incubation
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Interface to Review Information
Ability to Walk Away and Come Back
Ability to Interact with Others
Supporting Illumination
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Means to Communicate Insight to
Others
Supporting Implementation
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Capture Steps to Solution
Facilitate Team-Based Work
IT to Enhance Creativity
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Wouldn’t it be great if computers
could…
– Help us be creative
– Help us work better in teams
Enhancing Preparation
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Organize Data in Unique Ways
Allow All Forms of Media
Suggest/Enhance Creativity
Techniques
Virtual Teams and Parallel
Development
Enhancing Incubation
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Ready To Go
Human Guided IT Incubation
Centralized DB, Pulls From Past Work
Enhancing Illumination
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“Mine” Data to Make Suggestions
Fitness Judgments - Assessments
TRIZ
Bisociations
Enhancing Implementation
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Integrates with CAD, Project, etc.
Estimates Value and Cost
Reporting and Distribution of
Information
Review
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Tools would support current process
Tools would enhance creativity and
innovation (value-based creativity)
Support various modes: synchronous,
asynchronous, and parallel
Centralized Intelligent DB
MetaChart
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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.
MetaChart
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Relationships
Nesting
Connections
MetaChart
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Large Interactive Wall
Objects and Freehand Input
Tablet and PDA
Simultaneously Peer-to-Peer and
Group Based
MetaChart
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Creation – Creativity Methods
Structuring – Tree Based Tools
Data – Browse, Import, Export
i-LAND
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More Creative Germans…
Focus is integrating information space
with architectural space
Ad hoc teamwork
Hypermedia functionality
i-LAND
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Roomware – integrated into
the working environment
DynaWall
InteracTable
CommChairs
i-LAND
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Supports Brainstorming
‘Thoughtscapes’
‘Passage’ of objects and virtual world
Key Graphs and DISCUS
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Innovation Support System
Human and Computer Generated
Knowledge
Human-Human and Human-Machine
Collaboration
Key Graphs and DISCUS
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Human Based and Interactive Genetic
Algorithms
Flexible Data Mining
Chance Discovery – Key Graphs
Review / Summary
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Support/Enhance Group Creativity
Hypermedia and Roomware
Handle / Synthesize Information
Machine-based Creativity
Sources
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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.