TY - GEN
T1 - Supporting creativity with awareness in distributed collaboration
AU - Farooq, Umer
AU - Carroll, John M.
AU - Ganoe, Craig H.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Based on qualitative analysis of three groups collaborating on a research task in a distributed setting, we identify four breakdowns in creativity: (1) Minority ideas were under-considered; (2) Novel ideas were easily lost; (3) There was a lack of critical evaluation of perspectives; (4) Reflexivity was weak during convergence. We propose two design strategies, illustrated with mock-ups, to support creativity with awareness: (1) Automatically summarize and recommend ideational activities from system logs; (2) Allow collaborators to enter status of work activity, making these activity updates visible on social and temporal dimensions. Our analysis also suggests an integrated framework of metrics to evaluate creativity as a long-term collaborative activity.
AB - Based on qualitative analysis of three groups collaborating on a research task in a distributed setting, we identify four breakdowns in creativity: (1) Minority ideas were under-considered; (2) Novel ideas were easily lost; (3) There was a lack of critical evaluation of perspectives; (4) Reflexivity was weak during convergence. We propose two design strategies, illustrated with mock-ups, to support creativity with awareness: (1) Automatically summarize and recommend ideational activities from system logs; (2) Allow collaborators to enter status of work activity, making these activity updates visible on social and temporal dimensions. Our analysis also suggests an integrated framework of metrics to evaluate creativity as a long-term collaborative activity.
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U2 - 10.1145/1316624.1316630
DO - 10.1145/1316624.1316630
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:63349085231
SN - 9781595938459
T3 - GROUP'07 - Proceedings of the 2007 International ACM Conference on Supporting Group Work
SP - 31
EP - 40
BT - GROUP'07 - Proceedings of the 2007 International ACM Conference on Supporting Group Work
T2 - 2007 International ACM Conference on Supporting Group Work, GROUP'07
Y2 - 4 November 2007 through 7 November 2007
ER -