A New Academic Workshop to Generate Co-Creation between Researchers and Citizens

Abstract

In this study, we propose a new design of academic workshop to generate co-creation between researchers and citizens. Co-creation was defined as "people with diverse backgrounds conduct creative activities together to achieve common goals and/or to solve problems." We designed a process with four steps to generate co-creation; ①learning about host area, ② presentation and dialogue, ③generate co-creation projects, and ④conduct creative activities. We established "Special Interest Group on Crowd Co-creation Intelligence" at The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence as a target of social experiment. A program of the workshop was designed to achieve one to three steps out of four steps. 56 people including researchers and citizens participated in the first workshop. As a result of the questionnaire, it was found that the aim of each programs were almost achieved. A total of six co-creation projects was generated. Built a good relationship between participants and generating co-creation ideas contributed to the generation of co-creation projects. In some cases, new cocreation projects were generated that combine citizen's ideas for solving regional problems and researchers' skills which could realize them. In this way, the effects co-creation between citizens and researchers through this workshop were seen.

Matching Social Issues to Technologies for Civic Tech by Association Rule Mining using Weighted Casual Confidence

“…Furthermore, Shiramatsu et al [9] conducted a practical research using this system in civic tech community events. Horita et al [3] studied designing a workshop to promote collaboration between researchers and citizens. In comparison, we deal with a problem of matching different perspectives of social issues and information technologies for the objective of supporting collaboration.…”