User Innovation Networks and Research Challenges

  • Authors:
  • Niki Lambropoulos;Pan Kampylis;Aneesha Bakharia

  • Affiliations:
  • London South Bank University, London, UK;University of Jyväskylä, Finland - Scholar of the Greek State Scholarship Foundation,;Queensland University of Technology, Australia

  • Venue:
  • OCSC '09 Proceedings of the 3d International Conference on Online Communities and Social Computing: Held as Part of HCI International 2009
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

User Innovation Networks (UIN) has been considered the open innovation model for this century as it functions entirely independently of manufacturers. This paper discusses two UIN cases, Daz3D, as well as Linux Dell and IBM cooperation as regards research challenges about the community of practice and interface used. It concludes that current technology only now started touching global and extreme collaboration for creativity and innovation.