WORKSHOP: Infrastructure Needs to Support Creativity-based Technology Research

基于创造力的技术研究面临的最具挑战性的问题源于对“创造力”的含义以及如何描述或建模的大量假设、概念、描述、解释和定义。“创造力”是创新的关键，创新可以定义为从一个层次到另一个层次的质的飞跃。很明显，对“创造力”的研究只有同时被视为基础研究和应用研究才能存在。这正是科学、艺术和技术可以交汇的地方，对所有人都有最大的好处。科学技术与人类创造力和创新之间的这种相互交流需要超越学科界限来理解。要使对“创造力”的研究和理解在科学和技术的创新方法中取得成果，并在潜在的非科学环境中相互参与基础研究，需要一个真正开放和跨学科的框架。迄今为止，在这一领域得到支持的倡议——利用研究、开发和生产，涵盖自然科学、计算机科学和信息学、工程和人文学科（包括美术、表演和应用艺术）、教育科学、心理学和哲学——前景光明，并产生了新的见解。由于这些研究项目在设计上和必要性上必须跨越学术和研究的界限，它们需要持续的支持，以便在它们自己的领域以及在它们更直接的范围之外的其他研究中实现、集中、协调和传播它们的活动和成果。本次研讨会的目标是用具体的术语定义一个平台，以维持跨学科和跨学科的研究、合作和交流，在创造力、技术、研究和创新的交叉点上整合可量化和定性定义的范式。这一领域的研究可以归入“基于创造力的技术研究和基于技术的创造力研究”的标题下。与国际上已建立的支持该领域的平台和网络基础设施相比，美国很少有支持平台，如专题讨论会、会议、出版物或基于互联网的资源，致力于在基于创造力的技术研究中建立沟通和连续性。本次研讨会的活动将建立在先前支持基于创造力的技术研究的NSF研讨会的成果之上，也将建立在NSF CISE IIS CreativeIT计划（2007年至2010年）三年任期内资助的研究项目之上。本次研讨会的目标是：1)确定基础设施需求中的关键问题，以支持基于创造力的技术研究；2)针对分布式网络基础设施的开发、管理和成员参与制定具体计划，以持续支持该领域；3)确定将向可能的支持机构和基金会提出建议的领先机构。根据这些结果，可以定义以下行动：1)初步定义关键机构的网络结构，这些机构可以向美国国家科学基金会和/或其他资助实体提出建议，以支持该网络结构；2)作为现有研究项目延伸的合作研究建议，目前仅限于一个中心或一个子领域，其他中心可能具有互补的研究专长和能力；3)未来任务的承诺、时间表和结构，以巩固本次研讨会提出的倡议，目标是建立一个由中心、研究人员和创造性从业者组成的网络。

The most challenging problem facing creativity-based technology research stems from the multitude of hypotheses, concepts, descriptions, interpretations and definitions of what "creativity" means and how it can be described or modeled. It is understood and accepted that "creativity" holds the key to innovation, which can be defined as a qualitative jump from one level to another. It becomes obvious that research into "creativity" can only exist if it is seen as fundamental research and applied research at the same time. This is exactly the point where science, art and technology can intersect with the greatest benefit to all. This reciprocal interchange between science and technology and human creativity and innovation needs to be understood beyond discipline boundaries. To bring research and understanding of "creativity" to fruition for innovative approaches in science and technology and to reciprocally engage fundamental research in potentially non-scientific environments requires a truly open and cross-disciplinary framework. Initiatives supported so far in this area - drawing on research, development and production and spanning natural sciences, computer science and informatics, engineering and humanities including fine, performing and applied arts, educational science, psychology and philosophy - are promising and have yielded new insights. As these research projects by design and necessity have to cross academic and research boundaries, they need sustained support to enable, focus, coordinate and disseminate their activities and results within their own field as well as to other research outside of their more immediate scope. The goal of this workshop is to define in concrete terms a platform that sustains cross-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary research, collaboration and exchange in the integration of quantifiable and qualitatively defined paradigms at the intersection of creativity, technology, research and innovation. This area of research can be subsumed under the heading of "creativity-based technology research and technology-based creativity research". In contrast to established platforms and network infrastructures to support the field in international arenas, there are few supported platforms - such as symposia, conferences, publications or internet-based resources - that are dedicated to establish communication and continuity in creativity-based technology research in the United States. Activities in this workshop will build upon results from prior NSF workshops in support of creativity-based technology research, and also upon research projects funded during the three-year tenure of the NSF CISE IIS CreativeIT program from 2007 to 2010. Objectives for this workshop are to: 1) Identify key issues in infrastructure needs to support creativity-based technology research; 2) Develop concrete plans toward the development, management and constituent involvement in a distributed network infrastructure for the sustained support of the field; and 3)Identify leading institutions that will move forward on proposals to possible supporting agencies and foundations. Based on these outcomes, the following actions may be defined: 1) Initial definition of a network structure of key institutions that can develop a proposal to the NSF and/or other funding entities to support the network structure; 2) Collaborative research proposals as an extension of existing research projects, which are currently limited to one center or to one sub-field where other centers may have complementary research expertise and capacity; 3) Commitment, timeline and structure of future tasks required to consolidate the initiatives coming out of this workshop with the goal of developing a network of centers, researchers and creative practitioners.