CreativeIT Pilot: Learning from Creativity in the Wild: Leveraging the Success of Creative Content Systems

对于创造力支持工具的研究人员和开发人员来说，视频分享网站Youtube.com和照片分享网站Flickr.com等“用户生成内容”（UGC）的在线空间特别感兴趣。这些系统是巨大的，多样化的空间，用于创造性的生产，互动，协作和挪用。 这个项目调查了特定的UGC系统，我们称之为创意内容系统（CCS），如何被数百万人用来生成和传播他们的创意产品。 更深入了解参与这些系统的动力，将有助我们为未来教资会系统的创意活动设计更有效的系统支援，并为我们提供更丰富的信息技术创意模式。该项目的智力价值来自三个贡献。 首先，这项工作将产生在线社区创造性实践的增强模型。业余/专业互动在网上社区越来越普遍，需要更好地理解和支持这些人群在创造性实践和目标受众之间的差异。 其次，研究将产生和评估下一代创意支持技术的设计建议。更好地理解业余和专业创作实践的共同和独特因素是为创意个人和创意社区开发下一代支持工具的必要先决条件。第三，这项工作将产生更多的知识，成功地促进业余活动。通过下一代CCS设计的设计建议，创意专业人士将受益于知识和技术，帮助他们利用业余创造力和贡献。利用这些系统的成功将通过鼓励本项目现有参与者和系统之外的创新和创造力产生更广泛的影响。 虽然该项目是在创造性文化活动的背景下进行的，但研究结果将更广泛地适用于增加希望招募业余贡献和志愿者的STEM相关项目的参与。 这项研究的结果将广泛传播给学术界，包括但不限于创造力和认知，CSCW和CHI。

For researchers and developers of creativity support tools, online spaces of "user-generated content" (UGC) such as the video-sharing site Youtube.com and the photo-sharing site Flickr.com are of particular interest. These systems are massive, diverse spaces for creative production, interaction, collaboration and appropriation. This project investigates how specific UGC systems, those we call Creative Content Systems (CCS), are being used by literally millions of people to generate and disseminate their creative products. A better understanding of the dynamics of participation in such systems would allow us to both design more effective system support for creative activities in future UGC system, as well as providing us with a richer model of IT-enabled creativity. The project's intellectual merit comes from three contributions. First, this work will generate enhanced models of creative practice in online communities. Amateur/professional interactions have become increasingly prevalent in online communities and the differences between these populations in creative practice and intended audiences needs to be better understood and supported. Second, the research will generate and assess design recommendations for next generation creative support technology. Generating a better understanding of the common and distinct factors of amateur and professional creative practice is a necessary precondition for evolving the next generation of support tools for creative individuals and creative communities. Third, this work will generate enhanced knowledge of successful facilitation of amateur activity. Via the design recommendations for next generation CCS design, creative professionals will benefit from knowledge and technology to help them leverage amateur creativity and contribution. Leveraging the success of these systems will lead to broader impacts by encouraging innovation and creativity beyond this project's current participants and systems. Though this project is set in the context of creative cultural activity, the findings will be more broadly applicable to increasing participation in STEM-related projects that wish to enlist amateur contributions and volunteers. The results from this study will be disseminated broadly to academic communities including, but not limited to, Creativity and Cognition, CSCW, and CHI.