How Feature- and Communication Constraints in CSS Affect Creative Collaboration in Virtual Teams - An Activity Theory Perspective

Pilcicki, Raoul; Siemon, Dominik; Lattemann, Christoph

How Feature- and Communication Constraints in CSS Affect Creative Collaboration in Virtual Teams - An Activity Theory Perspective

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Date

2022-01-04

Authors

Pilcicki, Raoul

Siemon, Dominik

Lattemann, Christoph

Abstract

New Creativity Support Systems (CSS) provide additional features, but are also growing more complex and difficult to operate. Via new functionalities, CSS aim to facilitate virtual creative collaboration and enable better outcomes. However, research shows that, especially in the context of creativity, better outcomes are not always the result of more options and features. Our study applies activity theory (AT) as a lens in order to examine how constraints can be applied to creative collaboration in virtual teams. This study advances research on collaboration in information systems (IS) as well as human-centered development of IT-artifacts that facilitate creative collaboration. Our findings provide two practical takeaways for CSS developers and virtual teams: First, constraints in CSS can be designed to substantially benefit idea generation and exploration beyond routine performance; second, constraints can be designed to help teams access the potential of CSS faster and more efficiently.

Keywords

Design, Development, and Evaluation of Collaboration Technologies, collaboration, constraints, creativity, creativity support systems

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/10125/79386

Extent

10 pages

Related To

Proceedings of the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

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Design, Development, and Evaluation of Collaboration Technologies

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