Crowd creativity through combination

  • Authors:
  • Lixiu Yu

  • Affiliations:
  • Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA

  • Venue:
  • C&C '11 Proceedings of the 8th ACM conference on Creativity and cognition
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The goal of this research is to perform large-scale experiments to see if the crowd, mediated by technology, produces creative designs by combining designs. To fulfill this goal, a sequential combination system is built. The system is a variant on a human based genetic algorithm, through which the crowd participates in an iterative process of design, evaluation, and combination. The study will provide a way of creatively solving problems in a number of different domains. It will also shed light on the mechanisms of social creativity: how individuals can build on each other's work and how technology can facilitate design by encouraging collaboration through shared designs.