November 13, 2008
Thomas Herrmann
Socio-technical support for creativity in
learning and teaching
Abstract
Creativity support for university courses or
research meetings has to take into account technical as well as organizational
issues. From the technical viewpoint we try to improve co-located meeting support
on the basis of large interactive screens with respect to usability and functionality.
Therefore we have established the Modlab (moderation lab) at Bochum which includes
a seamless interactive display (4,8m * 1,4 m). While large interactive screens
are feasible to represent a large number of contributions in the phase of divergent
ideation, difficulties arise when convergence of collected ideas has to be promoted.
We have derived design heuristics to tackle this problem from a series of interviews
as well as from our own practice. The technical support has to be embedded into
an organizational framework, which refers to phases of creativity, facilitation
methods and distribution of roles.
Short-Bio
Thomas Herrmann (http://www.imtm-iaw.rub.de/personenund/personen/th/index.html)
is a professor of Information and Technology-Management at the Institute
of Applied Work Science (IAW), University of Bochum, Germany. Current research
interests include design methods for socio-technical systems in the areas
of knowledge management, (work-) process management, computer supported collaborative
learning, and concepts of social software for the support of creativity.
He teaches courses in Groupware, Knowledge Management, Socio-technical systems
Design, Information Systems and Privacy, Human-Computer Interaction, Organizational
Communication, and Process Management.
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