Kumiyo Nakakoji, a professor at Kyoto University Design School, received her B.S. in information engineering from Osaka University, Japan (1986) and M.S. (1990) and Ph.D. (1993) in computer science from University of Colorado, Boulder, certified by Institute of Cognitive Science. She was a professor at Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo prior to the current position. She has served as chairs, editors, and committee members for a number of research communities, journals, and conferences, in the fields of Human-Computer Interaction, Software Engineering, and Design and Creativity Support, both locally and internationally. Nakakoji was awarded the Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award from College of Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, in 2006. Her research interests include human-computer interaction design, collective creativity, and knowledge interaction design, which is a framework for the design and development of computational tools for creative knowledge work.
TALK ABSTRACT
Museum Experiences and Collective Creativity
Collective creativity denotes the process and artifacts of individual creative knowledge work by interacting with "knowledge in the world" – through external representations and communications with peers in a community. We argue that a museum serves as a place for nurturing collective creativity.
Our MESS (Museum Experiences and Service Science) project views a local museum not only as a place for communicating the fact and knowledge about exhibited objects but also as a place for inspiring people and for being inspired. We have designed and set up probes at museum exhibitions as a way to investigate how visitors got inspired at a museum. The applied probes include LED-lit candles and a tea house for viewing old Japanese paintings, an improvisational dance workshop for appreciating an abstract modern-art sculpture, and an improvisational drama workshop for reading old family correspondence. The study has led us to identify a set of features for inspiration, and moreover, reveals that curators and museum administrators in turn got inspired by the representations produced by the visitors through their engagement in museum experience.
TALK ABSTRACT
Museum Experiences and Collective Creativity
Collective creativity denotes the process and artifacts of individual creative knowledge work by interacting with "knowledge in the world" – through external representations and communications with peers in a community. We argue that a museum serves as a place for nurturing collective creativity.
Our MESS (Museum Experiences and Service Science) project views a local museum not only as a place for communicating the fact and knowledge about exhibited objects but also as a place for inspiring people and for being inspired. We have designed and set up probes at museum exhibitions as a way to investigate how visitors got inspired at a museum. The applied probes include LED-lit candles and a tea house for viewing old Japanese paintings, an improvisational dance workshop for appreciating an abstract modern-art sculpture, and an improvisational drama workshop for reading old family correspondence. The study has led us to identify a set of features for inspiration, and moreover, reveals that curators and museum administrators in turn got inspired by the representations produced by the visitors through their engagement in museum experience.