Summary Discussion is an essential step / component in collaboration. While it is believed by the authors that discussion can improve ability to confront public problems, web-based public discussions are thought to be inflammatory and hyperbolic for proper information decisions. The authors argued that this might be partly caused by a lack of useful interface…
Author: Yuan Li
From Diversity to Creativity: Stimulating Group Brainstorming with Cultural Differences and Conversationally-Retrieved Pictures
Summary Group brainstorming is what the authors believe to be effective for idea generation. It resolves the cognitive bottleneck of idea generation through social means. The collaboration between individuals broadens the knowledge base and allows for aggerated creative effort. Yet, the effectiveness of group brainstorming varies by individual differences. This is because empirical studies have…
Can Computers Create Art – Aaron Hertzmann
Summary The three-part articles are interesting and well-written. Starting with the most technology-driven art form – photograph, Aaron first talks about how photography becomes an art form through history. As the everlasting pursuit for realism through out history, painters were the only source that human could recreate the real world. However, this case was soon…
Where Do Web Sites Come From? Capturing and Interacting with Design History
Summary: Reflecting the past, one can know the future. To achieve that, the authors developed a history system that can help decision makers, students, designers, and their successors with creation, revision, and reflection for collaborative, early-stage information design. More specifically, the work is for a web design tool the authors proposed in previous studies. In…
Harnessing the Wisdom of Crowds in Wikipedia: Quality Through Coordination
Summary: As the world’s largest online encyclopedia, countless users retrieve information its articles. Its success demonstrates one of the many conveniences brought. Its effectiveness can be measured or illustrated by the quality of its articles. When an article is inevitably contributed by many contributors and editors, a common expectation or danger is the decreased effectiveness…
WeBuild: Automatically Distributing Assembly Tasks Among Collocated Workers to Improve Coordination
Summary: The paper presents a task distribution system – WeBuild. As physical building tasks often requires coordination among multiple workers, one of the problems often occurred is that a large chunk of time is wasted on coordination process such as distributing main task into subtasks, assigning subtasks to individuals, etc. WeBuild takes the advantage of…
Yuan Li – Reading Reflection 2
Summary The paper argues that iterative process is widely accepted to be beneficial to design and designer. The authors extend iteration by brining in parallelism and comparing parallel iterative procedure to serialized iterative procedure. The authors first introduced potential theoretical benefit of parallel design, in which they brought about three hypotheses: Parallel prototyping leads to…
Yuan Li, Reflection 1
Summary It is not uncommon to solve a problem based on the knowledge from a different domain. The paper presents a crowdsourcing based technique to help this analogy searching process. As the authors noted, such process is challenging for both human and machine. The insight behind the proposed approach is representing a problem as the…
Yuan Li – Initial Ideas & Intro
Idea 1. The Augmented Reality devices have an inherent problem of small field-of-view. When computer-assisted collaboration happens, the constraint on small field of view will pose challenge on reaching visual consensus. For example, when two artists are working on a large AR sculpture of David (Michelangelo) together, one’s display only shows David‘s toe while the…