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