Print Email Facebook Twitter Enhancing Creativity as Innovation via Asynchronous Crowdwork Title Enhancing Creativity as Innovation via Asynchronous Crowdwork Author Murukannaiah, P.K. (TU Delft Interactive Intelligence) Ajmeri, Nirav (University of Bristol) Singh, Munindar P. (University of North Carolina) Date 2022 Abstract Synchronous, face-to-face interactions such as brainstorming are considered essential for creative tasks (the old normal). However, face-to-face interactions are difficult to arrange because of the diverse locations and conflicting availability of people - a challenge made more prominent by work-from-home practices during the COVID-19 pandemic (the new normal). In addition, face-to-face interactions are susceptible to cognitive interference. We employ crowdsourcing as an avenue to investigate creativity in asynchronous, online interactions. We choose product ideation, a natural task for the crowd since it requires human insight and creativity into what product features would be novel and useful. We compare the performance of solo crowd workers with asynchronous teams of crowd workers formed without prior coordination. Our findings suggest that, first, crowd teamwork yields fewer but more creative ideas than solo crowdwork. The enhanced team creativity results when Second, cognitive interference, known to inhibit creativity in face-to-face teams, may not be significant in crowd teams. Third, teamwork promotes better achievement emotions for crowd workers. These findings provide a basis for trading off creativity, quantity, and worker happiness in setting up crowdsourcing workflows for product ideation. Subject creativityCrowdsourcinginnovationpersonalityteamwork To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:b9c8742e-296f-4467-8dfb-2e7335936081 DOI https://doi.org/10.1145/3501247.3531555 Publisher Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) ISBN 978-1-4503-9191-7 Source WebSci 2022 - Proceedings of the 14th ACM Web Science Conference Event 14th ACM Web Science Conference, WebSci 2022, 2022-06-26 → 2022-06-29, Virtual, Online, Spain Series ACM International Conference Proceeding Series Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2022 P.K. Murukannaiah, Nirav Ajmeri, Munindar P. Singh Files PDF 3501247.3531555.pdf 1.1 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:b9c8742e-296f-4467-8dfb-2e7335936081/datastream/OBJ/view