Community mirrors for supporting corporate innovation and motivation

Abstract

In this paper we are exploring the idea of applying community support concepts and ubiquitous user interfaces to supporting the motivation to innovate in corporate settings. Our special focus is on the early phase of the innovation process - the phase of idea generation and suggestion management. The key idea is to provide awareness for a company's creative potential and appreciation for the idea creators in a corporate setting by displaying information from community platforms handling the suggestion management process on public shared displays ("Idea Mirrors") in the office space.