SoCS: Crowdsourcing Creativity: Experiments in Design

互联网使一种不同的设计成为可能，这是基于一种新的现象：众包创意，许多人为了乐趣或名义上的报酬或两者兼而有之而执行小型设计任务。如果一群人的能量被用来产生、联合收割机和提炼想法以及解决社会和技术问题的可能方案，那会怎么样？如果众包在创意产生中的顺序应用效果良好，那么许多困难的设计挑战可能会得到解决。如果众包有局限性，那么找到这些局限性将为同行生产的增长提供一条更有针对性的道路。在这个项目的过程中，参与者，从公众中抽取，将产生初步的想法，然后联合收割机的许多不同的想法，他们的同行，寻求解决困难和开放式的设计问题，通过一个大规模的组合，评估，选择和组合的过程，通过这些步骤循环，直到解决方案的收敛。本研究的智力价值在于研究创意发现过程中众包的实验设计和结果。这项研究的更广泛影响在于它潜在地利用人类的智力来解决具有挑战性的问题，这些问题的解决方案将影响我们每一个人。该项目具有潜在的变革性，因为重要问题的众包可能会以数量级的速度加速我们在紧迫的社会和技术问题上的进展。

The Internet makes possible a different kind of design, based on a new phenomenon: crowdsourcing creativity, where many individuals perform small design tasks for fun, nominal compensation, or both. What if the iterative application of a crowd's energy is used to generate, combine and refine ideas and possible solutions to social and technical problems? If the sequential application of crowdsourcing to idea generation works well, then many difficult design challenges might be addressed. If crowdsourcing has limits, then finding these limits will provide a more focused path for the growth of peer production. During the course of this project, participants, drawn from the general public, will generate initial ideas, then combine the many different ideas of their peers, seeking to solve difficult and open-ended design problem through a large scale process of combination, evaluation, selection, and combination again, cycling through these steps until a solution is converged upon. The Intellectual Merit of this research lies in the design and results of experiments that study crowdsourcing in the idea discovery process. The Broader Impact of this research lies in its potential harnessing of human intellectual power to attack challenging problems whose solution will affect every one of us. The project is potentially transformative, in that the crowdsourcing of important problems might accelerate by orders of magnitude our progress on pressing social and technological issues.