Collaborative Proposal: DHB: Dynamics of Idea Generation in Individual and Group Brainstorming: A Multi-disciplinary Approach Using Network Models and Behavioral Experiments

合作提案：DHB：个人和团体头脑风暴中创意生成的动态：使用网络模型和行为实验的多学科方法

• 批准号: 0729470
• 负责人: Simona Doboli
• 金额: $ 15.63万
• 依托单位: Hofstra University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-10-01 至 2012-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0729470&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Proposal; DHB; Dynamics; Idea

This collaborative project by a team of researchers at Hofstra University on Long Island, New York, the University of Cincinnati, and the University of Texas at Arlington represents a comprehensive study of the creative idea generation process in groups and organizations. The modern global economy is increasingly competitive, and there is growing pressure on science, industry, business and government to produce novel ideas and innovative solutions for difficult problems. Because most real-world problems are highly technical or involve the integration of information across a number of domains of expertise, almost all efforts to generate creative, effective solutions must be collaborative at many levels. In recent years, social psychologists have studied creative idea generation in small groups in a variety of settings, and have identified the factors that seem to facilitate or hinder innovation in organizations. However, it is now important to develop ways for systematically optimizing group creativity, and that is the ultimate goal of this research project. A model of idea generation in individuals, based on current knowledge of how the brain retrieves information from memory and organizes that information into both familiar and novel combinations, will be used as the basis for experimental studies of creative idea generation in groups and teams. Extensions of the model based on the theory of complex networks will be used to suggest ways to enhance innovation at the level of larger organizations. The research team itself is an example of effective collaboration among diverse individuals, with computer scientists, engineers, and cognitive and social psychologists pooling their expertise to study a complex and important problem.

这个合作项目由纽约长岛霍夫斯特拉大学、辛辛那提大学和阿灵顿德克萨斯大学的研究人员组成，代表了对群体和组织中创意产生过程的全面研究。现代全球经济竞争日益激烈，科学、工业、商业和政府面临越来越大的压力，需要为难题提出新颖的想法和创新的解决方案。因为大多数现实世界的问题都是高度技术性的，或者涉及到跨多个专业领域的信息集成，所以几乎所有产生创造性的、有效的解决方案的努力都必须在许多层面上进行协作。近年来，社会心理学家研究了各种环境下小群体的创意产生，并确定了促进或阻碍组织创新的因素。然而，现在重要的是开发系统地优化团队创造力的方法，这是本研究项目的最终目标。一个基于当前关于大脑如何从记忆中获取信息并将这些信息组织成熟悉的和新的组合的知识的个人想法产生模型，将被用作团体和团队创造性想法产生的实验研究的基础。基于复杂网络理论的模型扩展将用于建议在更大的组织层面上加强创新的方法。该研究团队本身就是不同个体之间有效合作的一个例子，计算机科学家、工程师、认知和社会心理学家汇集了他们的专业知识来研究一个复杂而重要的问题。