What the Hack? – Towards a Taxonomy of Hackathons

Kollwitz, Christoph; Dinter, Barbara

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-26619-6_23

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“…There is no finite, agreed-upon set of characteristics that classify an event as a hackathon (Komssi et al 2015), making it difficult to generate a definition inclusive of all variations of hackathon-like events. In general, a hackathon is a problemfocussed, short-term event where small groups work to develop a final product (Briscoe & Mulligan 2014;Komssi et al 2015;Gama 2017;Izvalov, Nedilko & Nedilko 2017;Kollwitz & Dinter 2019). Hackathons tend to be of interest to computer programmers, designers and engineers; it is typical for the theme of the event to be tech-centric.…”

Section: What Is a Hackathon?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While many publications focus on outcomes of hackathons, few include discussion related to design activity at the event(s) (Olesen 2017). Existing literature often consists of experience reports or studies of a singular event, or within a specific domain (Raatikainen et al 2013;Kollwitz & Dinter 2019). The one known attempt to synthesise this knowledge is a recent literature review by Kollwitz & Dinter (2019), who propose a taxonomy of hackathons.…”

Section: Design and Hackathonsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Existing literature often consists of experience reports or studies of a singular event, or within a specific domain (Raatikainen et al 2013;Kollwitz & Dinter 2019). The one known attempt to synthesise this knowledge is a recent literature review by Kollwitz & Dinter (2019), who propose a taxonomy of hackathons. However, while their taxonomy accounts for the entire duration of the hackathon from initial idea generation to results, its focus is on how hackathons are/ought to be organised, and not on describing/understanding how hackers design.…”

Section: Design and Hackathonsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Design at hackathons: new opportunities for design research

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2021

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Hackathons are short-term events at which participants work in small groups to ideate, develop and present a solution to a problem. Despite their popularity, and significant relevance to design research, they have only recently come into research focus. This study presents a review of the existing literature on the characteristics of designing at hackathons. Hackathon participants are found to follow typical divergence–convergence patterns in their design process throughout the hackathon. Unique features include the initial effort to form teams and the significant emphasis on preparing and delivering a solution demo at the final pitch. Therefore, hackathons present themselves as a unique setting in which design is conducted and learned, and by extension, can be studied. Overall, the review provides a foundation to inform future research on design at hackathons. Methodological limitations of current studies on hackathons are discussed and the feasibility of more systematic studies of design in these types of settings is assessed. Further, we explore how the unique nature of the hackathon format and the diverse profiles of hackathon participants with regards to subject matter knowledge, design expertise and prior hackathon experience may affect design cognition and behaviour at each stage of the design process in distinctive ways.

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2021

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“…The word hackathon was created by a combination of the words "hack" and "marathon" and traditionally hackathons are organized as on-site events with different groups working on different challenges that are judged on diverse pre-agreed parameters (Kollwitz & Dinter 2019). The concept of the INSPIRE hackathon differs from traditional hackathons in that it is not just a multi-day event, but it is a continuous process designed to effectively use results from previous hackathons.…”

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Capacity Development and Collaboration for Sustainable African Agriculture: Amplification of Impact Through Hackathons

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Bye

Kubickova

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Data Science Journal

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The paper describes the concept of INSPIRE Kampala virtual hackathons, with the main focus to build and strengthen relationships between several European Union (EU) projects and African communities that started in 2019 with the Nairobi INSPIRE Hackathon. The main focus is exploring a new model for capacity building based on virtual hackathons as an excellent opportunity for bringing together people from different work environments, culture and disciplinary backgrounds. This paper is describing experience and lessons learned from the Kampala INSPIRE Hackathon. INSPIRE Hackathons have evolved over a five year period since it started and during this period we developed a model of fully virtual Hackathons, which we recognise as optimal for Africa. The paper describes all stages of Hackathon building: definition of themes, selection of mentors, development, webinars as tools for sharing experience, final presentation, selection of winners and awarding ceremony. As important we consider also planning other actions, because we don't see INSPIRE Hackathon as an event, but as a continuous process. Demonstration part of paper describes the lessons learnt from the winning challenge: Desert Locus Monitoring. The description of all phases demonstrate Kampala INSPIRE Hackathon approach. On the basis of experience we defined strategy for the future, how to continue and successfully extend such a model in Africa.

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“…While hackathons provide benefits such as improving and fostering internal innovation, expanding competencies, and networking [3,4,6,[9][10][11][12], several challenges have been reported. Examples of challenges are prototypes that do not get sufficient follow-up work [7,9,11], stress by putting regular work aside [4] and issues associated with hacker culture and low self-esteem reported by Paganini and Gama [12].…”

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Innovation in Large-Scale Agile - Benefits and Challenges of Hackathons When Hacking from Home

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Stray

Moe

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Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming – Workshops

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Hackathons are events in which diverse teams work together to explore and develop solutions, software, or even ideas. Hackathons have been recognized not only as public events for hacking but also as a corporate mechanism for innovation. Hackathons are a way for established large-scale agile organizations to achieve increased employee wellbeing as well as being a curator for innovation and developing new products. The sudden transition to the work-from-home mode caused by the COVID-19 pandemic first put many corporate events requiring collocation, such as hackathons, temporarily on hold and then motivated companies to find ways to hold these events virtually. In this paper, we report our findings from investigating hackathons in the context of a large agile company by first exploring the general benefits and challenges of hackathons and then trying to understand how they were affected by the virtual setup. We conducted nine interviews, surveyed 23 employees, and analyzed a hackathon demo. We found that hackathons provide both individual and organizational benefits of innovation, personal interests, and acquiring new skills and competencies. However, several challenges such as added stress due to stopping the regular work, employees fearing not having enough contribution to deliver, and potential mismatch between individual and organizational goals were also found. With respect to the virtual setup, we found that virtual hackathons are not diminishing the innovation benefits. However, some negative effects surfaced on the social and networking side.

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What the Hack? – Towards a Taxonomy of Hackathons

Cited by 30 publications

References 39 publications

Design at hackathons: new opportunities for design research

Design at hackathons: new opportunities for design research

Capacity Development and Collaboration for Sustainable African Agriculture: Amplification of Impact Through Hackathons

Innovation in Large-Scale Agile - Benefits and Challenges of Hackathons When Hacking from Home

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