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Dissertation Information for John G. Locke III

NAME:
- John G. Locke III

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- Library and Information Science

SCHOOL:
- University of Hawaii (USA) (1998)

ADVISORS:
- Dan J. Wedemeyer

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Curtis P. Ho
- Leon James
- Everett Mitchell Rogers
- Meheroo Jussawalla

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: Creative fission: Towards a communication-based paradigm for the study and augmentation of collaboration in creative information ecologies

Abstract: This dissertation sets forth the foundations of a communication-based paradigm for the study and augmentation of collaboration in creative ecosystems. The objective of this dissertation was to observe what participants actually do in creative collaboration practice as a basis for understanding their activity, and defining appropriate design requirements for the development of augmentation environments (support systems) supporting those activities.

The dissertation introduces and develops the following key concepts: (1) the Creative Fission Approach--an organic theoretical model of information ecologies; (2) the Digitally Integrated Videographic Analysis (DIVA) Process--an original observational methodology integrating the dynamic information processing and multimedia representational capabilities of the digital domain; (3) the Creative Fission Model--a multi dimensional, multilayered, non-linear research model for data familiarization (e.g. identifying, defining, tracking and analyzing the organizational and orientational dynamics of an information ecology, including such elements as communities, populations, activities, processes, relationships, flows, functions, multiple intelligence profiles, etc.), within the proposed conceptual dimensions of physiological and psychosocial reality; (4) the Augmented Interaction Analysis Framework--an analytical framework grounded in communication and multiple intelligences theory developed to structure the study of activity in multiple information spaces (e.g. personal space, personal media space, shared space, shared media space etc.); (5) a visual instrument for profiling and representing structurational parameters of collaborative ecosystems; (6) the DIVA Score--a representational technique for synchronously and contextually orienting multiple time-ordered streams of observational data in vertical alignment; and the, (7) MediaLink Analytical and Archival Environment--an original computer tool, medium and environment for collaborative interaction analysis research.

A sample study was conducted using Digitally Integrated Videographic Analysis techniques developed by the author for this dissertation. Media design tasks in support of pro-social, entertainment education communication campaigns were utilized to explore creative, social and interactional dynamics in contrast to decision making studies. Videographic, observational data were collected for eight collaborative workgroups, each consisting of four participants. Workgroups were organized around four fundamental media types including text, audio, video and graphics. Multimedia data (digital text, audio, video graphics) from one session (graphic design) were analyzed in detail utilizing the prototype MediaLink Analytical and Archival Environment.


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