IT Supported Collaborative IT Supported Collaborative Creative WorkCreative Work

Andy WilliamsGE393 – DEGApril 19, 2004

MotivationMotivation

• Need to Enhance Creativity

• Creativity is a Group Process

• Work is Increasingly IT Based

• Information is Key to Innovation

• Wealth of Information is Overwhelming

• Need to Enhance Creativity

• Creativity is a Group Process

• Work is Increasingly IT Based

• Information is Key to Innovation

• Wealth of Information is Overwhelming

OverviewOverview

• The Creative Process

• IT in Support of the Creative Process

• IT to Enhance the Creative Process

• Examples

• The Future

• The Creative Process

• IT in Support of the Creative Process

• IT to Enhance the Creative Process

• Examples

• The Future

The Creative ProcessThe Creative Process

• Preparation

• Incubation

• Illumination

• Implementation

• Preparation

• Incubation

• Illumination

• Implementation

IT in SupportIT in Support

• Support and Match non-IT Based Processes

• Support various modes: synchronous, asynchronous, and parallel

• Support and Match non-IT Based Processes

• Support various modes: synchronous, asynchronous, and parallel

Supporting PreparationSupporting Preparation

• Collect Information of Various Medias

• Organize Information

• Forum for Multiple Users

• Creativity Methods

• Collect Information of Various Medias

• Organize Information

• Forum for Multiple Users

• Creativity Methods

Supporting IncubationSupporting Incubation

• Interface to Review Information

• Ability to Walk Away and Come Back

• Ability to Interact with Others

• Interface to Review Information

• Ability to Walk Away and Come Back

• Ability to Interact with Others

Supporting IlluminationSupporting Illumination

• Means to Communicate Insight to Others

• Means to Communicate Insight to Others

Supporting ImplementationSupporting Implementation

• Capture Steps to Solution

• Facilitate Team-Based Work

• Capture Steps to Solution

• Facilitate Team-Based Work

IT to Enhance CreativityIT to Enhance Creativity

• Wouldn’t it be great if computers could…

– Help us be creative– Help us work better in teams

• Wouldn’t it be great if computers could…

– Help us be creative– Help us work better in teams

Enhancing PreparationEnhancing Preparation

• Organize Data in Unique Ways• Allow All Forms of Media• Suggest/Enhance Creativity

Techniques• Virtual Teams and Parallel

Development

• Organize Data in Unique Ways• Allow All Forms of Media• Suggest/Enhance Creativity

Techniques• Virtual Teams and Parallel

Development

Enhancing IncubationEnhancing Incubation

• Ready To Go

• Human Guided IT Incubation

• Centralized DB, Pulls From Past Work

• Ready To Go

• Human Guided IT Incubation

• Centralized DB, Pulls From Past Work

Enhancing IlluminationEnhancing Illumination

• “Mine” Data to Make Suggestions

• Fitness Judgments - Assessments

• TRIZ

• Bisociations

• “Mine” Data to Make Suggestions

• Fitness Judgments - Assessments

• TRIZ

• Bisociations

Enhancing ImplementationEnhancing Implementation

• Integrates with CAD, Project, etc.

• Estimates Value and Cost

• Reporting and Distribution of Information

• Integrates with CAD, Project, etc.

• Estimates Value and Cost

• Reporting and Distribution of Information

ReviewReview

• Tools would support current process• Tools would enhance creativity and

innovation (value-based creativity)• Support various modes: synchronous,

asynchronous, and parallel• Centralized Intelligent DB

• Tools would support current process• Tools would enhance creativity and

innovation (value-based creativity)• Support various modes: synchronous,

asynchronous, and parallel• Centralized Intelligent DB

MetaChartMetaChart

• 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.

• 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.

MetaChartMetaChart

• Relationships

• Nesting

• Connections

• Relationships

• Nesting

• Connections

MetaChartMetaChart

• Large Interactive Wall

• Objects and Freehand Input

• Tablet and PDA

• Simultaneously Peer-to-Peer and Group Based

• Large Interactive Wall

• Objects and Freehand Input

• Tablet and PDA

• Simultaneously Peer-to-Peer and Group Based

MetaChartMetaChart

• Creation – Creativity Methods

• Structuring – Tree Based Tools

• Data – Browse, Import, Export

• Creation – Creativity Methods

• Structuring – Tree Based Tools

• Data – Browse, Import, Export

i-LANDi-LAND

• More Creative Germans…

• Focus is integrating information space with architectural space

• Ad hoc teamwork

• Hypermedia functionality

• More Creative Germans…

• Focus is integrating information space with architectural space

• Ad hoc teamwork

• Hypermedia functionality

i-LANDi-LAND

• Roomware – integrated into the working environment

• DynaWall

• InteracTable

• CommChairs

• Roomware – integrated into the working environment

• DynaWall

• InteracTable

• CommChairs

i-LANDi-LAND

• Supports Brainstorming

• ‘Thoughtscapes’

• ‘Passage’ of objects and virtual world

• Supports Brainstorming

• ‘Thoughtscapes’

• ‘Passage’ of objects and virtual world

Key Graphs and DISCUSKey Graphs and DISCUS

• Innovation Support System

• Human and Computer Generated Knowledge

• Human-Human and Human-Machine Collaboration

• Innovation Support System

• Human and Computer Generated Knowledge

• Human-Human and Human-Machine Collaboration

Key Graphs and DISCUSKey Graphs and DISCUS

• Human Based and Interactive Genetic Algorithms

• Flexible Data Mining

• Chance Discovery – Key Graphs

• Human Based and Interactive Genetic Algorithms

• Flexible Data Mining

• Chance Discovery – Key Graphs

Review / SummaryReview / Summary

• Support/Enhance Group Creativity

• Hypermedia and Roomware

• Handle / Synthesize Information

• Machine-based Creativity

• Support/Enhance Group Creativity

• Hypermedia and Roomware

• Handle / Synthesize Information

• Machine-based Creativity

SourcesSources

• 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.

• 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.