Trains of thought on the tabletop: visualizing association of ideas improves creativity

Afonso-Jaco, Amandine; Buisine, Stéphanie; Barré, Jessy; Aoussat, Améziane; Vernier, Frédéric

doi:10.1007/s00779-013-0726-3

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“…The way LIDs represent knowedge appears to be relevant for collaborative work. A study comparing the sole representation of ideas with representations of both ideas and their interconnections (in the form of graphic ropes) for a brainstorming task found the latter condition to be linked to more original ideas and longer trains of thought (Afonso Jaco et al, 2013). However, no differences were observed with respect to the number of ideas generated, the number of trains of thought, or the diversity of ideas (number of semantic categories).…”

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“…making the environment part of a distributed cognition setting (Wilson, 2002) in order to reduce cognitive load. The visualization of trains-of-thought in this brainstorming interface helps improve the production of ideas in terms of both quantity and quality by linking semantically related concepts (Afonso Jaco et al, 2013). Showing links between semantically related concepts activate concepts in people's long-term memory and thus offload and stimulate cognition for higher creativity (Afonso Jaco et al, 2013).…”

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“…The visualization of trains-of-thought in this brainstorming interface helps improve the production of ideas in terms of both quantity and quality by linking semantically related concepts (Afonso Jaco et al, 2013). Showing links between semantically related concepts activate concepts in people's long-term memory and thus offload and stimulate cognition for higher creativity (Afonso Jaco et al, 2013). Such affordances make up for the limited human capacity to store and access any information that might be momentarily unavailable (Fiore & Wiltshire, 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

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“…This new interface proved to increase cognitive stimulation and originality of ideas: groups working with this interface produced more unique ideas (Fig. 5), less redundant ideas, and longer trains of thought (Afonso Jaco et al, 2014). All in all, interactive tabletop proved to be a useful tool to support group brainstorming (Table 3): group facilitation, cognitive stimulation and social comparison are at least as effective as with electronic brainstorming, and our successive experiments showed that specific interface features such as performance feedback or visualization of trains of thought can further support the efficiency factors of group creativity.…”

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This chapter presents on-going research dedicated to augmenting creativity through innovative technologies. Our hypotheses draw on the pros and cons of the Brainstorming paradigm to strengthen the former and overcome the latter. The main efficiency factors we are trying to support are Cognitive stimulation, Social comparison, and Group facilitation, while trying to circumvent Production blocking, Social loafing, and Self-censorship. The first technology reviewed is Electronic Brainstorming Systems: it was shown that such devices enable groups, even large ones, to avoid production blocking. However, it may also increase social loafing, which is detrimental to creativity. We then introduce Interactive Tabletop Brainstorming with which groups can conciliate individual reflection, idea sharing, and social setting. We show that this technology reduces social loafing and we provide interface designs that further support cognitive stimulation, social comparison and group facilitation. This series of experiments also highlight a new efficiency factor for creativity, namely the Fun factor: the use of innovative technology in itself introduces playfulness, which seems to increase engagement and creative performance. Finally, we report on a recent series of experiments exploring Avatar-Mediated Creativity as a means to counter self-censorship through anonymity and enhance creativity through avatars' appearance. The results confirm that the choice of avatars in virtual brainstorming greatly influences creativity through processes such as self-perception, priming, and social identity. In many respects, avatars and virtual environments offer a new promising tool to support group creativity. We conclude on the potential impact of these findings on real-world innovation challenges.

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“…Some of the early works on collaborative creativity focused on collaborative drawing applications such as the VideoDraw (Tang and Minneman, 1991), where the goal was to allow remote participants to draw on a shared interface. Since then many collaborative systems have been developed to encourage brainstorming on table-top displays (Hilliges et al, 2007;Jaco et al 2014) and to support distributed team efforts for creative work on vertical displays (Gumienny et al, 2013;Tausch et al, 2014). The work of Farooq and Carroll (2013) has shown that maintaining awareness is of great importance during the ongoing distributed collaborative work.…”

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In addition to functional and technological features, the role of augmented objects should also be seen in terms of how effectively they fit into the everyday practices of users and how they enhance users' experiences. In this article, the authors introduce a low-tech, internet-of-things technology called CAM (Cooperative Artefact Memory) that is used as a collaborative tool in design studio environments. CAM works as an object memory technology and allows industrial and product designers to collaboratively store relevant information onto their physical design objects, such as sketches, collages, storyboards, and physical mock-ups in the form of messages, annotations and external web links. In the context of this study, CAM serves as an important probing device to understand designers' interaction and experiences with augmented design objects, in their natural environment. The authors carried out a small-scale field trial of CAM in an academic design studio, over three student design projects. In this article, they discuss the findings of their field trial and show how CAM was used by the participants, how it was integrated into the design process and how it was appropriated for different purposes. The authors also found that CAM supported coordination and awareness within the design teams, yet its serendipitous and asynchronous nature facilitated creative and playful interactions between team members. In general, the results show how CAM transformed mundane design objects into “smart” objects that made the creative and playful side of cooperative design visible.

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Trains of thought on the tabletop: visualizing association of ideas improves creativity

Cited by 11 publications

References 39 publications

Collaboration on large interactive displays: a systematic review

Collaboration on large interactive displays: a systematic review

Technological Innovation in Group Creativity

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