A Literature Review on Social Creativity within Computer Mediated Design

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Social CreativityA Literature Review on Social Creativity within

Computer Mediated Design

Presented by Steven O.

Entezari


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Objectives

Learn about social creativity

Validate the impact on design

Identify themes within literature

Distances

Seeding, Evolutionary Growth, ReseedingModel

Socio-Technical Environment

Discover what the broader impact is


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Social Creativity

Creativity is usually seen as anindividual process

Creativity grows from individual and

interactions Relevant in design

Individual/Social

Not versus but and


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Social Creativity Design

Examples of social creativity withindesign

Urban Planning

Transportation Planning Interactive Art

Open Source Software (Software Design)

Help Forums


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Social Creativity Design

Medium of Design becomes important Given previous examples

Medium of design typically tends to be

computer mediated AKA Socio-Technical

Presents problems Distances between people, concepts,

technologies Needs Process To start, grow, and branch off


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THEMES WITHIN

LITERATURE

these ideas are addressed by


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Themes

Distances Spatial

Temporal

Technological Conceptual

SER Model Seed

Evolutionary Growth

Reseeding

Socio-Technical Environments


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Themes - Distances

Distances Distribution of design within a

collaborative context across spatial,

temporal, technological, and conceptualdomains

The difficulties that emerge via the fourdistances are at the root of establishing a

medium for social creativity

Literature discusses many, many pointsabout the pitfalls and promises within

these distances.


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Themes - Distances

Spatial Distanced by physical, geographic

location

Temporal Distanced by time and generation

Technological Distanced by technological abilities to

collaborate

Conceptual Distanced by stakeholder and

participatory input


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Themes SER Model

Seeding, Evolutionary Growth,Reseeding Model

Method of enhancing social creativity by

utilizing methods of social psychology tostructure the lifespan of a socially creativecommunity


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Themes SER Model

Seeding Create an initial system or community

focused within a specific domain

Evolutionary Growth Users change/modify existing system to

make it more customized

Reseeding New system/community developed when

scope is reached


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Themes - Socio-TechnicalEnvironments Context that merges social domains

Such as interactions between people andtechnology

Meta Design Moving towards informed participation

(between multiple stakeholders) bytechnologically connecting groups andindividuals

i.e. Socio-Technical Environments


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Themes Socio-TechnicalEnvironments Boundary Objects

Externalizations of ideas

Shared understanding across the 4 distances

Domain Oriented Design Evnironment Fundamental Question:

How do we avoid the situation that voices get

lost because there is too much information or

their input does not get recorded


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Broader Impact andConclusion Understanding Social Creativity will

Allow better collaboration within twoconceptual distances

Communities of Interest

Communities of Practice

Eventually eliminate bottom layer ofcreativity

By implementing it into systems and socio-technical environments


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QUESTIONS?

Thank You!

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A Literature Review on Social Creativity within Computer Mediated Design