Supporting co-creation with software, the idSpace platform

Abstract

Innovation, in general, requires teamwork among specialist of different disciplines. The idSpace project developed ideas on how teams of collaborating innovators could best be supported. These ideas were embodied in a platform that the project developed. This idSpace platform allows its users to choose between various creativity techniques, pedagogical approaches and context-aware uses of stored information on projects, people and techniques. The platform follows a general process metaphor with specialised modules for specific parts, i.e. it starts with defining the problem to be addressed and through a sequence of steps concludes with a proposed solution. The platform was designed and developed by a multi-disciplinary team. It was evaluated through a realistic usage scenario which focused on the integral platform, from both an end-user and expert user perspective embodying a combination of qualitative and quantitative measurements on usability, general functionality and creativity aspects. This combination, as will be explained, being a powerful way to prioritise and steer the further development of the platform.

Information system users’ creativity

“…classified (Muldner and Burleson, 2015). Another stream aims at proposing and understanding how to design collaboration technology, generally called ICT, and the influence of such technology on the user's creative behavior (Elerud-tryde and Hooge, 2014;Karakaya and Demirkan, 2015;Van Rosmalen et al, 2014;Wook et al, 2015;C. Zhou et al, 2014) and the role of IS in the development of one's creativity (Bonsignore and Quinn, 2013;Jackson et al, 2012).…”