Fostering Creativity in Ubiquitous Social Computing through Casual and Formal Interactions in Interdisciplinary Design Studios

本研究旨在有条不紊地探索和分类基于设计的工作室模式的各种实例，并调查以设计为中心的跨学科工作室教育对学生识别和解决现实世界无处不在的社会计算问题的能力的好处。无处不在的计算技术将数字、物理和社交空间融合到一个单一的社会计算学习空间中，这将从根本上提高学生的创造力。这个项目开发和评估了两个典型的相互联系、跨学科和协作的设计工作室，它们将促进创造性的问题寻求和问题解决。在这些工作室中，来自多个学院和系的学生，如计算机科学、信息系统、建筑、工程和管理，将组成跨学科团队，并使用协作的网络基础设施来探索和解决南加州大学的关键社会技术挑战。创造力将通过强调设计思维方法、长达一学期的设计项目和在更具互动性的环境中解决现实世界的问题来激发，在这种环境中，他们可以自由交流想法。更广泛的影响是通过在泛在社会计算中部署尖端教育基础设施和技术来实现的，这有利于未被充分代表的学生群体，从而使这些学生被定位为问题的解决方案创造者，他们将受到独特的培训，以感知和应对问题。研究表明，与计算的其他方面相比，妇女通过该提案的两个核心主题--以用户为中心的设计和社会计算--更有效地从事信息技术工作。从长远来看，这种教育模式可以吸引有创造力的年轻人走向科学技术。

This research aims to methodically explore and categorize the various instantiations of design-based studio models and to investigate the benefits of interdisciplinary design-centered studio-based education on students' ability to identify and solve real-world ubiquitous social computing problems. Ubiquitous computing technologies blend digital, physical, and social spaces into a single socio-computing learning space that will fundamentally improve students' creativity. This project develops and evaluates two prototypical interconnected, interdisciplinary and collaborative design studios that will foster creative problem seeking and problem solving. In these studios, students from multiple colleges and departments, such as computer science, information systems, architecture, engineering, and management, will form interdisciplinary teams and use collaborative cyber-infrastructure to explore and address key socio-technical challenges in USC. Creativity will be stimulated through an emphasis on a design-thinking approach, semester-long design projects and real-world problem solving in a more interactive environment where they can freely exchange ideas.Broader impact is achieved by deploying cutting-edge educational infrastructure and technologies in ubiquitous social computing that advantage under-represented student groups, so that these students are positioned as solution-creators for problems they will be uniquely trained to perceive and confront. Research has shown that women are more effectively engaged in information technology through two of the core themes of this proposal, user-centered design and social computing, than other aspects of computing. In the long term, this educational model can attract creative young people toward science and technology.