Applying the Hive Mind Space model to foster creative collaboration

As collaboration in creating information systems becomes more frequent and more complex among multidisciplinary teams, finding new models for supporting this collaboration becomes valuable. However, the challenge for the collaboration is how to bridge the communication gaps among stakeholders with different cultural backgrounds utilizing different systems of signs, languages and representations [1] and possibly having different perceptions as well as interpretations. Communication is therefore needed to reach a common meaning about the messages they exchange. Another big challenge in collaboration is to provide the right tools or platform, which with new affordances [3] support stakeholders' creative collaboration. The aim of this research is to investigate End-User Development and meta-design approaches for supporting creative collaborative design and to design a space to facilitate diverse stakeholders effectively communicate with each other as well as actively participate in the iterative design process.