Track: Collaboration Systems and Technology
Minitrack: Creativity in Teams and Organizations

We seek papers to improve creativity and innovation through all phases of problem-solving: Understanding a problem, devising potential solutions, evaluating alternatives, making choices, making plans, taking action, and after-action review. We seek papers addressing creativity in all patterns of collaboration: Generating ideas, converging on those deemed worthy of more attention, organizing ideas, evaluating ideas, and building consensus. We also seek papers that suggest improvements for realizing creative ideas in the workforce as innovations, for an organization cannot benefit from its creativity until its ideas are implemented.

Topics and research areas include:
* Methods & techniques to improve creativity in co-located and distributed groups
* Systems and Technology for Enhancing Creativity
* Challenges and opportunities for creativity in teams
* Theoretical foundations for creativity at individual, group and organizational levels
* Practical approaches to foster creativity at individual, group and organizational levels
* The creation and implementation of innovations in organizations
* Factors affecting creativity in teams and organizations
* Building team-based organizations

Co-chairs:
Triparna de Vreede (Primary Contact)
Institute for Collaboration Science
Department of Psychology
University of Nebraska at Omaha
1110 South 67 th street, Omaha, NE 68182-011, USA
Phone: +1-402-554-2557
E-mail: tdevreede@mail.unomaha.edu

Roni Reiter-Palmon
Institute for Collaboration Science
Department of Psychology
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Roskens Hall Room 512J, Omaha , NE 68182, USA
Phone: +1-402-554-4081
E-mail: rreiter-palmon@mail.unomaha.edu

Gerhard Schwabe
Department of Informatics
University of Zurich
Binzmühlestrasse 14, Switzerland
E-mail: schwabe@ifi.uzh.ch