SGER: Increasing Participation and Sustaining a Research Community in "Creativity and IT"

现有的维基技术成功地鼓励了来自分散的大量个人的内容的协作开发。然而，典型的维基并不鼓励社区积极地相互协作或交流，除非他们被要求协作。这个项目确定了一个框架，用于解决典型维基技术中的缺点，该框架包含了社交计算的想法，以开发一个更关注社区的CreativeIT维基。这个项目创造了一个社会技术环境，支持研究人员、从业者和学生成为一个充满活力的社区，专注于创造力和IT，基于对现有CreativeIT维基和该领域相关研究的形成性评估。为建立和发展一种参与文化，开发了一个理论基础和经验评估框架。将拟议的研究立足于一个真实的问题提供了一个独特的机会，可以持续地评估其优势和劣势。这项研究工作有助于拓宽创意和信息技术的主题，让更多的人参与进来，并在长期未来持续努力。该项目确定了参与文化的见解、机制、指导方针和支持环境。

Existing wiki technology has successfully encouraged the collaborative development of content from a distributed and large set of individuals. However, a typical wiki does not encourage the community to actively collaborate or communicate with each other, unless they are required to collaborate. This project identifies a framework for addressing the shortcomings in typical wiki technology that encompasses ideas from social computing to develop a more community focus for the CreativeIT wiki. This project creates a socio-technical environment to support researchers, practitioners, and students to become a vibrant community focused on Creativity and IT, based on the formative evaluation of the existing CreativeIT wiki and related research in the field. A theoretically grounded and empirically evaluated framework is developed for the creation and evolution of a participation culture. Grounding the proposed research in a real problem provides a unique opportunity to assess the strengths and weaknesses on an ongoing basis. This research effort contributes to broaden the theme of Creativity and IT, involves more people to participate, and sustain the effort in the long-term future. The project identifies insights, mechanisms, guidelines, and support environments for participation cultures.