UC Institute for Software Research
October 4,
2002
Friday
Refreshments
and Networking: 1:30 - 2:00
Presentation: 2:00 - 3:30
Faculty Host:
David Redmiles, redmiles@ics.uci.edu
RSVP: Email RSVP required to Christopher Stringer
at cstringe@uci.edu by Monday,
September 30.
Location: UCI Student Center, Monarch Bay A (building #113)
Cost: No cost to attend.
Directions and parking information are available.
Abstract: Complex design problems require more knowledge than
any one single person can possess, and the knowledge relevant to a problem
is often distributed and controversial. Rather than being a limiting factor,
the symmetry of ignorance (or asymmetry of knowledge) can provide the
foundation for social creativity. Bringing different points of view together
and trying to create a shared understanding among all stakeholders can
lead to new insights, new ideas, and new artifacts. Social creativity
can be supported by new media that allow owners of problems to contribute
to framing and solving these problems. These new media need to be designed
from a meta-design perspective by creating environments in which stakeholders
can act as designers and be more than consumers.
Related Publications:
- Fischer, G., E. Arias, H. Eden, A. Gorman, and E. Scharff (2001):
"Transcending the Individual Human Mind-- Creating Shared Understanding
through Collaborative Design" ACM Transaction on Computer-Human
Interaction (TOCHI) Vol. 7, No. 1, March 2000, pp. 84-113.
Available at: [http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/tochi2000.pdf]
- Fischer, G. (2001) "External and Sharable Artifacts as Sources
for Social Creativity in Communities of Interest." In J. S. Gero
& M. L. Maher (Eds.), Computational and Cognitive Models of Creative
Design V, Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition, University of
Sydney, Sydney, Australia, pp. 67-89. Available at: [http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/ccmcd2001.pdf]
- Fischer, G. (2001): "Communities of Interest: Learning through
the Interaction of Multiple Knowledge Systems," 24th Annual Information
Systems Research Seminar In Scandinavia (IRIS'24), pp. 1-14. Available
at: [http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/iris24.pdf]
About the Speaker: Gerhard Fischer is a professor of Computer
Science, a fellow of the Institute of Cognitive Science, and the director
of the Center for LifeLong Learning & Design (L3D) at the University
of Colorado at Boulder. Current research interests include new media supporting
lifelong learning, human-human and human-computer collaboration, (software)
design, domain-oriented design environments and universal design (assistive
technologies).
