An Instructional Tool to Foster Creativity in the Software Engineering Process

培养软件工程过程中创造力的教学工具

• 批准号: 0757434
• 负责人: Rosanne Gamble
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Tulsa
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-06-01 至 2011-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0757434&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Instructional; Tool; Foster; Creativity; Software

Curriculum standards for Computer Science (CS) education typically lack creative approaches to Software Engineering, focusing on technological solutions rather than innovative design. Software Engineering is a highly creative endeavor that challenges CS student abilities to establish an innovative vision and to craft an outstanding product. Accountability for and contribution to creative initiatives are not part of grading methods in typical Software Engineering course. This project develops a collaborative framework that encourages and captures the creative discourse of a software project team as they form a vision, acquire useful technology, and implement a non-trivial product to satisfy customer requirements using the definition and analysis of an idea network. Generating and manipulating the network based on ideas as the core creative concept will provide both a visual feedback and a peer response to the creative discourse needed within the software development process. Reinforcement learning techniques are adapted for generating incremental rewards during software development to motivate, recognize, and require creativity, using the idea network as a communication and exploration medium. Real life situations often require learning from environmental feedback or reinforcements, with or without the presence of knowledgeable supervisors who can prescribe the best course of action. This project develops an approach to encouraging and rewarding creativity in a collaborative process that will be applicable to a broad range of collaborative and learning environments.

计算机科学（CS）教育的课程标准通常缺乏对软件工程的创造性方法，侧重于技术解决方案而不是创新设计。软件工程是一个高度创造性的努力，挑战计算机科学学生的能力，建立一个创新的愿景和制作一个优秀的产品。在典型的软件工程课程中，对创造性活动的责任和贡献并不是评分方法的一部分。这个项目开发了一个协作框架，鼓励并捕捉软件项目团队的创造性话语，因为他们形成了一个愿景，获得了有用的技术，并实现了一个重要的产品，以满足客户的需求，使用了一个想法网络的定义和分析。以创意为核心创意概念来生成和操纵网络，将为软件开发过程中所需的创意话语提供视觉反馈和同行响应。强化学习技术适用于在软件开发过程中产生增量奖励，以激励、识别和要求创造力，使用思想网络作为交流和探索媒介。现实生活中的情况往往需要从环境反馈或强化中学习，无论是否有知识渊博的主管在场，他们都可以规定最佳的行动方案。本项目开发了一种在协作过程中鼓励和奖励创造力的方法，该方法将适用于广泛的协作和学习环境。