TY - CONF T1 - Promoting social creativity: a component of a national initiative for social participation T2 - Proceedings of the seventh ACM conference on Creativity and cognition Y1 - 2009 A1 - Shneiderman, Ben A1 - Churchill,Elizabeth A1 - Fischer,Gerhard A1 - Goldberg,Ken KW - research agenda KW - social creativity KW - social participation AB - This panel will discuss group processes that promote social creativity in science, engineering, arts, and humanities. We will offer positive and negative examples of social creativity projects, while suggesting research directions for dramatically increased social participation. The goal is to develop strategies that would expand resources and opportunities for research and education in social creativity. This requires our community to develop a unified position, then reach out to national science funding agencies, while building the case for the importance of this topic beyond our own community. How can social creativity, collaborative discovery, distributed innovation, and collective intelligence be framed as an international priority to cope with the problems of the 21st century and how can we identify a clear set of research challenges? The theme of technology-mediated social participation is outlined in the white paper for a National Initiative for Social Participation (http://iparticipate.wikispaces.com). The white paper suggests that successful research challenges should have three key elements: (1) compelling national need (healthcare, national security, community safety, education, innovation, cultural heritage, energy sustainability, environmental protection, etc.), (2) scientific foundation based on established theories and well-defined research questions (privacy, reciprocity, trust, motivation, recognition, etc.), and (3) computer science research challenges (security, privacy protection, scalability, visualization, end-user development, distributed data handling for massive user-generated content, network analysis of community evolution, cross network comparison, etc.). We seek recommendations for ways to increase the resources and attention for this field. We hope to inspire: universities to change course content, add courses, and offer new degree programs industry to help researchers on social creativity government to support these ideas and try them out in government applications scientists and artists to open themselves to more social/collaborative approaches JA - Proceedings of the seventh ACM conference on Creativity and cognition T3 - C&C '09 PB - ACM CY - New York, NY, USA SN - 978-1-60558-865-0 UR - http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1640233.1640237 M3 - 10.1145/1640233.1640237 ER -