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Reflection on Dow, S. P., Glassco, A., Kass, J., Schwarz, M., Schwartz, D. L., & Klemmer, S. R. (2010). Parallel prototyping leads to better design results, more divergence, and increased self-efficacy. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), 17(4), 18. Summary: The paper presents a controlled experiment where participants created online advertisement banners under two different conditions: (1)…

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…

Parallel Prototyping Leads to Better Design Results, More Divergence, and Increased Self-Efficacy Steven P. Dow, Alana Glassco, Jonathan Kass, Melissa Schwarz, Daniel L. Schwartz, and Scott R. Klemmer. 2010. Parallel prototyping leads to better design results, more divergence, and increased self-efficacy. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 17, 4, Article 18 (December 2010), 24 pages. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1879831.1879836 Summary:…

The reading for this class was “Searching for Analogical Ideas with Crowds,” a 2014 paper from Carnegie Mellon University researchers Yu, Kittur, and Kraut. It looks at how to improve solutions to problems by leveraging the previous ideas of many others. The authors argue that finding analogical problems to the task at hand can serve…

Reflection 1 In this paper, the authors measure creativity in the context of providing solutions to open problems. Inter-rater reliability (IRR) is the primary metric the researchers used to measure this creativity. They seek to utilize the capability of analogous situations to providing solutions. They take advantage of the increase in popularity of crowdsourcing to…

“Searching for analogical ideas with crowds” Yu et al. The authors provide a novel approach for finding analogies and ideas to problems and their solutions using crowdsourcing. The internet is full of solutions to different problems, and one need not reinvent the wheel every time while trying to solve a problem. Thus the authors try…

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…

Reflection of Yu, L., Kittur, A., & Kraut, R. E. (2014, April). Searching for analogical ideas with crowds. In Proceedings of the 32nd annual ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems (pp. 1225-1234). ACM. Summary: The paper investigates using crowd with real-world dataset to search for analogical ideas. The workers were presented with a problem wherein…

Bringing the Wisdom of the Crowd to an Individual by Having the Individual Assume Different Roles Jaime Teevan and Lisa Yu. 2017. Bringing the Wisdom of the Crowd to an Individual by Having the Individual Assume Different Roles. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition (C&C ’17). ACM, New York, NY, USA,…

Summary The researchers begin by touting the benefits of analogies. Since finding analogies is difficult, they developed a mechanism where underlying structure of problems could be identified. For this purpose they leveraged crowdsourcing. They assigned problems for the participants and tasked them to find analogous ideas online.  Their research outcomes showed that people are more…