SGER: INVESTIGATING REQUIREMENTS FOR SUPPORTING SCIENTIFIC CREATIVITY IN COLLABORATORIES

科学协作的一个前沿是计算机支持的协作工作(CSCW)，通常在协作室中进行编码和支持：提供对科学家、工具、数据库和仪器的远程访问的计算基础设施。科学协作的一个核心方面和原因是创造力，但我们还没有清楚地了解协作和科学创造力之间的关系。该项目将对创造力的基础科学和衡量创造力的经验科学作出贡献。在人机交互(HCI)环境中，更具体地说，在现实世界的CSCW环境中，对创造力的研究和理论将推动心理学中这一传统领域的发展，这一领域倾向于关注静态的、往往不现实的任务情景。其次，该项目将开发可重复使用的分布式科学协作中的创造力度量和度量。下一代CiteSeer协作实验室(由美国国家科学基金会计算研究基础设施基金0454052同时资助)将用于确定和概括在分布式环境下支持创造性科学协作的需求；开发和验证一个多方面的框架，以评估作为嵌入式和长期活动的创造力；对创造力纵向过程中发生的关键事件和故障进行编码和抽象。广泛影响本项目的目标是提高下一代CiteSeer协作实验室中创造性协作交互的质量。CEISE社区研究实践中的两个明显趋势是使用基于互联网的合作(主要通过电子邮件)和使用数字资源，如ACM数字图书馆。下一代CiteSeer项目在基于CiteSeer的协作环境中将这两种趋势结合在一起。这个项目将有助于加强我们对这一基础设施如何促进创造力的理解；这些成果可能会很好地转化为类似的努力。CiteSeer一直是CEISE社区的一个有价值的研究工具。CiteSeer使用情况的日志分析表明，拉美裔服务机构和历史上的黑人学院和大学都很好地使用它。这些机构在很大程度上缺乏对学术文献的充分接触。该项目将通过课程和独立学习项目为本科生和研究生提供额外的服务性学习机会，将他们的正规教育与实际应用结合起来，走向CiteSeer这样的现实世界系统。

A frontier for scientific collaboration is computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW), often codified and supported in collaboratories: computing infrastructures providing remote access to scientists, tools, databases, and instruments. A central aspect of and reason for scientific collaboration is creativity but we do not yet have a clear understanding of the relationship between collaboration and creativity in science. This project will contribute to the basic science of creativity and to the empirical science of measuring creativity. Studies and theories of creativity in human computer interaction (HCI) contexts, and more specifically in real-world CSCW contexts, will advance this traditional area in psychology, which has tended to focus on static, and often unrealistic task situations. Second, this project will develop reusable metrics and measures of creativity in distributed scientific collaboration.The Next Generation CiteSeer collaboratory (supported under a concurrent NSF Computing Research Infrastructure grant 0454052) will be used to identify and generalize requirements to support creative scientific collaboration in the context of distributed settings; develop and validate a multi-faceted framework to evaluate creativity as an embedded and long-term activity; codify and abstract critical incidents and breakdowns that occur during the longitudinal process of creativity.Broader impactsThe goal of this project is to enhance the quality of creative collaborative interactions in the Next Generation CiteSeer collaboratory. Two obvious trends in the research practices of the CISE community are its use of Internet-based collaboration (primary through email) and its use of digital resources, such as the ACM Digital Library. The Next Generation CiteSeer project brings these two trends together in a collaboratory environment for CiteSeer-based collaboration. This project will help to enhance our understanding of how this infrastructure can facilitate creativity; findings that may transfer well to similar efforts. CiteSeer has been a valuable research tool for the CISE community. Log analysis of CiteSeer usage shows that it is well used by Hispanic Serving Institutions and by Historically Black Colleges and Universities. These are institutions that for the most part lack adequate access to the scholarly literature. The project will provide additional service learning opportunities through classes and independent study projects for students, both undergraduate and graduate, to integrate their formal education with its practical application toward a real-world system such as CiteSeer.