Automating Facilitation and Documentation of Collaborative Ideation Processes

Abstract

My research is is in the field of computer supported and enabled innovation processes, in particular focusing on the first phases of ideation in a co-located environment. I'm developing a concept for documenting, tracking and enhancing creative ideation processes. Base of this concept are key figures derived from various system within the ideation sessions. The system designed in my doctoral thesis enables interdisciplinary teams to kick-start creativity by automating facilitation, moderation, creativity support and documentation of the process. Using the example of brainstorming, a standing table is equipped with camera and microphone based sensing as well as multiple ways of interaction and visualization through projection and LED lights. The user interaction with the table is implicit and based on real time metadata generated by the users of the system. System actions are calculated based on what is happening on the table using object recognition. Everything on the table influences the system thus making it into a multimodal input and output device with implicit interaction. While the technical aspects of my research are close to be done, the more problematic part of evaluation will benefit from feedback from the specialists for multimodal interaction at ICMI20.