{"id":124,"date":"2019-02-19T15:52:15","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T15:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/ccc2019s\/?p=124"},"modified":"2019-02-19T15:52:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T15:52:17","slug":"edward-powell-reflection-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/ccc2019s\/2019\/02\/19\/edward-powell-reflection-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Powell &#8211; Reflection 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Reflection\n1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In\nthis paper, the authors measure creativity in the context of providing\nsolutions to open problems. Inter-rater reliability (IRR) is the primary metric\nthe researchers used to measure this creativity. They seek to utilize the\ncapability of analogous situations to providing solutions. They take advantage\nof the increase in popularity of crowdsourcing to help tackle their hypotheses\nand experiments. There are two major experiments that they conduct: a) testing\nwhether schemas increase the odds of finding solutions in an idea repository (i.e.\nQuirky.com) and b) tested the usefulness of the analogies\/solutions produced\nfrom Experiment 1 and also create a crowd analogy searching process. Overall,\nthe experiments were limiting but also showed promise. The results from\nExperiment 1 showed that schemas can find more analogies that don\u2019t focus on \u201csource\nfeatures\u201d but rather on similarities of structures. Experiment 2 showed that\nanalogies that are grouped in a cluster can be useful to create a solution to a\nproblem. Furthermore, the person(s) that grouped the analogies can vary from\nthe people who use the analogies to create solutions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One\nmajor limitation that the authors admit, and also came to mind while I was reading\nit, is the challenge of creating helpful schemas. These experiments used\nrelatively easy concepts and situations for their producing of schemas and\nfeatures. Furthermore, the more complex the system is might indicate an\nincrease in difficulty in conceptualizing and summarizing an issue. For\ninstance, if it was a super complex physics, biology, or chemistry problem,\nthere could be a limit in finding a reasonable schema that could lead to the\nhelpful production of analogies because it is so unique to its domain. In that\nsame token, a risk or negative impact of this way of thinking could be not\nfully understanding a domain before implementing a solution discovered from an\nanalogy. It would have been nice to see the solutions implemented on a small\nscale. Additionally, it might improve the validity of the results to have more\nthan one raters for the IRR process. Early on, the research paper cites a situation\nin which a man made an analogy between freeing a cork from a wine bottle to\nbabies stuck in birth canals. The results of the this research and school of\nthought might not be as successful as this prominent case. However, there are\nimportant takeaways from this situation. Most importantly, the man who came up\nwith the idea was a mechanic and he collaborated with those in the medical\nfield to help make the solution proposal became a reality. This is very aligned\nwith the course and collaboration among various disciplines has been\nhistorically, and continues to be, extremely healthy for making progress in the\nworld. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/ccc2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/ccc2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/ccc2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/ccc2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/ccc2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/ccc2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/ccc2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/ccc2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/ccc2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/ccc2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}