Rambla: Supporting Collaborative Group Creativity for the Purpose of Concept Generation

Abstract

Asynchronous participation in volunteering social systems is mainly based on various communication and collaboration tools. Sup-porting creativity in such groups during the process of concept generation is one major challenge to reach high quality working results. This paper presents a collaboration tool supporting the creative process of concept generation. The solution focuses the support of a concrete social system with loose structures and that aims open participation, as discussed in a case study. At the end, the paper shows an evaluation of the solution itself with regards to the described social system.