Collaboration, Creativity and Computing Spring 2019

Reflection on Kriplean, T., Toomim, M., Morgan, J., Borning, A., & Ko, A. (2012, May). Is this what you meant?: promoting listening on the web with reflect. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1559-1568). ACM. Summary: The paper presents a tool called Reflect to promote active listening. The paper argues…

Summary The paper examines how communication on the internet can be improved. It begins the paper by stating that communication on the internet has the reputation for being obscene. It continues by stating that a driver for this perception is that communication tends to be entirely one-sided. The speaker does not get any feedback from…

Is This What You Meant? Promoting Listening on the Web with Reflect Travis Kriplean, Michael Toomim, Jonathan Morgan, Alan Borning, and Andrew Ko. 2012. Is this what you meant?: promoting listening on the web with reflect. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1559-1568. DOI:…

The paper for this session was “Is This What You Meant? Promoting Listening on the Web with Reflect,” a work from University of Washington, Seattle researchers Kriplean et al. In this work, they set out to design a system to improve online discussions by enabling active listening.  Active listening is a crucial part of in-person…

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…

“Is this what you meant? Promoting listening on the Web with Reflect. Travis Kriplean, Michael Toomim, Jonathan Morgan, Alan Borning, Andrew J. Ko” “Lessons form ThoughtSwap-ing: Increasing participant’s co-ordinative agency in facilitated discussions. Margaret Dickey-Kurdziolek, Matthew Schaefer, Deborah Tatar, Ian P. Renga” The first paper examines how Active Listening can be facilitated and improved. The…

Reflection on Aaron Hertzmann’s Can Computers Create Art? Summary: No, not yet. In this three-part blog post (based on his academic paper), Aaron Hertzmann presents a holistic perspective on the relationship between arts and machines. People thought realistic painting would be obsolete with the advent of photography but artists adapted, and we got newer styles…

Reflection on Wang, H. C., Fussell, S. R., & Cosley, D. (2011, March). From diversity to creativity: Stimulating group brainstorming with cultural differences and conversationally-retrieved pictures. In Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work (pp. 265-274). ACM. Summary: This paper aims to support group brainstorming by introducing diversity. In particular, the paper…

The Effects of Diversity on Group Productivity and Member Withdrawal in Online Volunteer Groups Jilin Chen, Yuqing Ren, and John Riedl. 2010. The effects of diversity on group productivity and member withdrawal in online volunteer groups. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 821-830. DOI:…

The paper under discussion for this session was “From Diversity to Creativity: Stimulating Group Brainstorming with Cultural Differences and Conversationally-Retrieved Pictures,” a 2011 work from Wang et al. at Cornell University. As the title suggests, this paper was interested in investigating the process of group brainstorming. One of the main goals of brainstorming is to…