Exploring Crowd Co-creation Scenarios for Sketches

TL;DR

This paper investigates how different collaborative strategies among humans affect the creativity, quality, and novelty of digital sketches created via a web interface, highlighting the importance of voting in co-creation.

Contribution

It introduces and evaluates various human-only co-creation scenarios, revealing the impact of collaboration and voting on sketch quality and creativity.

Findings

Iterative addition and voting yield the most creative sketches.

Lack of collaboration increases variance and reduces novelty.

Voting enhances perceived creativity of sketches.

Abstract

As a first step towards studying the ability of human crowds and machines to effectively co-create, we explore several human-only collaborative co-creation scenarios. The goal in each scenario is to create a digital sketch using a simple web interface. We find that settings in which multiple humans iteratively add strokes and vote on the best additions result in the sketches with highest perceived creativity (value + novelty). Lack of collaboration leads to a higher variance in quality and lower novelty or surprise. Collaboration without voting leads to high novelty but low quality.