SGER: Developing Ethnographic Evaluations for Creativity Support Tools

SGER：为创造力支持工具开发民族志评估

• 批准号: 0633843
• 负责人: Ben Shneiderman
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Maryland, College Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-08-15 至 2008-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0633843&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SGER; Developing; Ethnographic; Evaluations; Creativity

Domain experts who are doing work at the frontiers of knowledge often need to use advanced user interfaces for information visualization. Although principles of design for these new tools are emerging, the PI argues that evaluation of efficacy by controlled experimental studies is inadequate to deal with exploratory usage, rather that new evaluation methods based on longitudinal and ethnographic strategies must be developed. Furthermore, the PI contends that a growing number of software tools do more than increase productivity; they are designed to support creativity. The PI believes that a new advanced visualization tool he is developing to support exploration of social networks falls into this latter category. In this project, he will employ Multi-dimensional In-depth Long-term Case studies (MILCs) to study the tool's efficacy when it is used by a team of 4-6 professional sociologists, working within the newly formed National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland, engaged in the collection of data and analysis of the social networks of terrorist organizations. This represents a unique opportunity to test and refine both the visualization tool and the evaluation methods. Project outcomes will, through development of improved guidelines for conducting MILCs, lay the foundation for scaling up to larger evaluations in more ambitious projects that blend individual and social creativity.Broader Impacts: The new tool the PI is developing will make contributions to information visualization design principles. In addition, the longitudinal and ethnographic studies to be conducted as part of this project will lead to refinement of both the MILC approach and the PI's tool. The improved evaluation methods and new visualization tool will, in turn, be of benefit to numerous research and industry groups.

在知识前沿工作的领域专家通常需要使用高级用户界面进行信息可视化。 虽然这些新工具的设计原则正在出现，PI认为，控制实验研究的疗效评价是不够的，以处理探索性的使用，而是必须开发基于纵向和人种学策略的新的评价方法。 此外，PI认为越来越多的软件工具不仅仅是提高生产力;它们旨在支持创造力。 PI认为，他正在开发的一种新的高级可视化工具，以支持社交网络的探索福尔斯后一类。 在这个项目中，他将采用多维深入长期案例研究（MILC）来研究该工具的有效性，当它被一个由4-6名专业社会学家组成的团队使用时，该团队在马里兰州大学新成立的国家恐怖主义研究和对恐怖主义的反应联盟（START）内工作，从事收集数据和分析恐怖组织的社交网络。 这是一个独特的机会来测试和完善可视化工具和评估方法。 项目成果将通过制定更好的MILC实施指南，为将个人和社会创造力相结合的更雄心勃勃的项目扩大到更大规模的评估奠定基础。更广泛的影响：PI正在开发的新工具将有助于信息可视化设计原则。 此外，作为该项目的一部分，将进行的纵向和人种学研究将导致MILC方法和PI工具的改进。 改进的评估方法和新的可视化工具将反过来有利于许多研究和工业团体。