SGER: INVESTIGATING REQUIREMENTS FOR SUPPORTING SCIENTIFIC CREATIVITY IN COLLABORATORIES

科学协作的前沿是计算机支持的协作工作（CSCW），通常在协作实验室中编纂和支持：计算基础设施提供对科学家、工具、数据库和仪器的远程访问。科学合作的一个核心方面和原因是创造力，但我们对科学合作和创造力之间的关系还没有一个清晰的认识。这个项目将有助于创造力的基础科学和测量创造力的实证科学。在人机交互（HCI）背景下，特别是在现实世界的CSCW背景下，对创造力的研究和理论将推动这一传统心理学领域的发展，该领域倾向于关注静态的，通常是不现实的任务情境。其次，该项目将开发分布式科学协作中可重用的创造性度量标准和度量方法。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并行拨款0454052支持）将用于识别和概括需求，以支持分布式环境下的创造性科学协作；开发和验证一个多方面的框架来评估创造力作为一种嵌入式和长期的活动；编纂和抽象在创造力纵向过程中发生的关键事件和故障。更广泛的影响该项目的目标是提高下一代CiteSeer合作实验室创造性协作互动的质量。CISE社区研究实践的两个明显趋势是使用基于互联网的协作（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项目将这两种趋势结合在一个基于CiteSeer的协作环境中。这个项目将有助于加深我们对基础设施如何促进创造力的理解；这些发现可能会很好地转化为类似的努力。CiteSeer一直是CISE社区的一个有价值的研究工具。对CiteSeer使用情况的日志分析表明，西班牙裔服务机构和历史上的黑人学院和大学都很好地使用了CiteSeer。这些机构在很大程度上缺乏获得学术文献的充分途径。该项目将通过课程和独立研究项目为本科生和研究生提供额外的服务学习机会，将他们的正规教育与实际应用相结合，应用于CiteSeer等现实世界系统。

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.