SoCS: Crowdsourcing Creativity: Experiments in Design

互联网使另一种设计成为可能，这种设计基于一种新现象：众包创意，许多人为了乐趣或名义上的报酬而执行小型设计任务，或者两者兼而有之。如果一群人的能量的迭代应用被用来产生、组合和完善社会和技术问题的想法和可能的解决方案呢？如果将众包的顺序应用到创意生成中，那么许多困难的设计挑战可能会得到解决。如果众包有限制，那么找到这些限制将为对等生产的增长提供更集中的路径。在这个项目的过程中，参与者将从公众中抽取，产生最初的想法，然后结合同行的许多不同想法，通过大规模的组合、评估、选择、再组合的过程，寻求解决困难和开放式的设计问题，循环这些步骤，直到一个解决方案汇集在一起。本研究的智力价值在于研究创意发现过程中的众包的实验设计和结果。这项研究更广泛的影响在于，它有可能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到我们每一个人。这个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步。

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.