Summary: Collaborative Creativity: A Complex Systems Model with
Distributed Affect
Cecilia R. Aragon
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195 USA
aragon@uw.edu
Alison Williams
University of East London
London E16 2RD UK
alisonwilliams62@googlemail.com
ABSTRACT
The study of creativity has received significant attention
over the past century, with a recent increase in interest in
collaborative, distributed creativity. We posit that creativity
in distributed groups is fostered by software interfaces that
specifically enable socio-emotional or affective
communication. However, previous work on creativity and
affect has primarily focused on the individual, while group
creativity research has concentrated more on cognition
rather than affect. In this paper we propose a new model for

Source: Anderson, Richard - Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington at Seattle

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