Re Research Position before Worldwide Derive (July 2012)

I attempted to Elicit personal academic constructs for different authors/traditions and myself and see where I ("SRT") fitted.. using  OpenRepGrid?

re elicitation -  I was reluctant to place myself via the binary oppositions (constructs) I am using  and am not sure they are correct/appropriate re others , as the deny different levels or types!


eg a persistant (individual) aspect to  identity /a socially constructed  aspect  to identity /a universal aspect to identity

or "safety" and "openess" an be considered complimentary and/or contradictory


(may suggest deconstructive position)

It seems obvious facebook et al are doing something like this with our data connecting it to consumption preferences and cognitive styles etc, it would be better if this was accessible on the surface of social networks accessible by the users for translation between construct systems this could  enable understanding and tolerance...

Related Paper :Creativity 2009

Random thinking, ordered doing: understanding group creative practice through repertory grid technique Full text Pdf (2.55 MB)  Source  Creativity and Cognition archive Proceeding of the seventh ACM conference on Creativity and cognition table of contents Berkeley, California, USA SESSION: Theory, metrics, methods & tools I table of contents Pages: 137-146   Year of Publication: 2009 ISBN:978-1-60558-865-0 Authors Shaun McWhinnie  University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom Shaleph J. O'Neill  University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom Louise Valentine  University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom Sponsor SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

DOI Bookmark: Use this link to bookmark this Article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1640233.1640256 What is a DOI? ABSTRACT The aim of our work is to better understand the impact of interactive technology on the creative process. An important part of beginning this research is to understand how creative practitioners make sense of their own creative practice. This paper introduces work carried out using a kit based Repertory Grid Technique (RGT), to examine the conceptual constructs of a small group of creative practitioners in a workshop format. The results, although preliminary, identify a number of shared constructs that help us describe aspects of creative processes from the practitioners' point of view. This leads us to hypothesize about potential models of creativity that we can use in future research. REFERENCES bold refs same as mine from MA -    1 Margaret A. Boden, Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms, Routledge, New York, NY, 2003   2 Jay David Bolter , Richard Grusin, Remediation: understanding new media, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1998   3 Csiksentmihaly, M. Creativity: Flow, and the psychology of discovery and invention. New York, Harper Perennial, 1997.   4 Fransella, F., and Bannister, D. A Manual for Repertory Grid Technique. London, Academic Press, 1999.   5 Hassenzahl, M. and Wessler, R., Capturing design space from a user perspective: the repertory grid technique revisited. Int. J. of Human-Computer Interaction, 12:3, 441--459   6 Thomas T. Hewett, Informing the design of computer-based environments to support creativity, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, v.63 n.4-5, p.383-409, October 2005  [doi>10.1016/j.ijhcs.2005.04.004]   7 Kelly, G. A., A Theory of Personality: the psychology of personal constructs. Norton, New York, 1963.   8 Todd Lubart, How can computers be partners in the creative process: classification and commentary on the special issue, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, v.63 n.4-5, p.365-369, October 2005  [doi>10.1016/j.ijhcs.2005.04.002]   9 Malcolm McCullough, Abstracting Craft: The Practiced Digital Hand, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1998   10 McWhinnie, S., O'Neill, S. J., Making sense of Creative Interactions Through Repertory Grid Technique. Proceedings of the Create 2009 Conference, BCS, 2009.   11 O'Neill S. J. (2006) Semiotics, Embodiment and Interactive Media, International Conference on Organizational Semiotics ICOS, University of Campinas, Brazil, 2006.   12 Shaw, M. L. G., and Gaines, B.R. (1989) Comparing Conceptual Structures: Consensus, Conflict, Correspondence, and Contrast. Available from: http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~gaines/reports/   13 M. L. G. Shaw and B. R. Gaines, "Mapping creativity with knowledge support tools," in AAAI-91 Workshop on Creativity: Models, Methods and Tools. AAAI: Menlo Park, California. 1992   14 Shaw, M. L. G., and Gaines, B. R. (1995) Comparing constructions through the web. Available at http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~gaines/reports/   15 Robert J. Sternberg, Creativity or creativities?, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, v.63 n.4-5, p.370-382, October 2005 [doi>10.1016/j.ijhcs.2005.04.003]   16 Stevenson, F., (2005). Materiality: people, place and sustainable resource use in architecture. PHD theses, University of Dundee.   17 WebGrid, available from http://repgrid.com