Industrial Experiences of Organizing a Hackathon to Assess a Device-centric Cloud Ecosystem

Raatikainen, Mikko; Komssi, Marko; Bianco, Vittorio; Kindstom, Klas; Järvinen, Janne

doi:10.1109/compsac.2013.130

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“…By noon on Saturday these two groups had appeared to resolve their differences and were committed to their collective goals. This dip in morale and recovery confirms this finding of previous hackathon case studies (Raatikainen et al, 2013). All the groups spent the morning brainstorming and exploring a broad range of ways to solve the problem they had chosen.…”

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“…The two winning groups, Fight the Fever and Bump, had six and seven members respectively, close to the mean group size. The success of this group size (6-7) is consistent with recommendations in Raatikainen et al (2013). The leaders of the groups had a vested interest in their group's progress because the group's work was based on those people's ideas pitched on the Friday.…”

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confidence: 66%

“…Fifteen ideas were pitched in 2015, one person told a story about a catastrophic stroke she had experienced and offered a patient's perspective, and one There appeared to be a pattern of interpersonal dynamics at both hackathons that contributed to the spirit of the 'hack way' as described by Chowdhury (2012) and described as social benefits by Raatikainen et al (2013). People arrived on the Friday, keen to share their ideas and listen to others.…”

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How do the design features of health hackathons contribute to participatory medicine?

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Cockcroft

2017

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The Hackathon concept is attracting interest as a vehicle for participatory development in both Health and Information systems. Publically available datasets, cloud based data storage, and increasingly sophisticated analytical methods, combined with user friendly development tools for mobile devices are inspiring innovation in the participatory medicine space. This has the potential to disrupt traditional methods and deliver solutions more rapidly, and in a form more likely to meet requirements. In health applications this involves putting the patient and their supports at the centre of design. This work contributes to solving the challenges involved in bringing a diverse cohort of designers, developers, problem owners, healthcare providers, patients, and citizens together to solve user-driven self-care problems using technology. We use a descriptive case study approach focussing on two weekend-long hackathons dubbed "Health Hackathon: Solving Self-care". We gather thick data from multiple sources according to the process defined by Geertz (1994) first, to provide a rich picture of the role of hackathons in participatory medicine and second, to contribute evidence to the practise of running a hackathon. Some key originalities of our work include seeking more candid responses via selfserve interviews. Through this, controversially, we noted a marked emphasis on the creative process over concerns for privacy and ethics around the personal data cloud created by hackathon products. We build on existing theories of participatory medicine and emerging methodologies for conducting hackathons to provide evidence of the efficacy of the hacking approach both in terms of outcome and team dynamics. Through interviews, observation, twitter feeds and a pre-survey, we identify a number of success factors including (1) group size, (2) maturity of the idea, (3) level of involvement of a mentor, and (4) involvement of students. In addition we identify five skills identified by successful health hackathon participants; knowledge, patient focussed skills, analytical skills, software design skills and professional perspective. In common with previous studies we find that there are considerable social benefits that accrue in running a hackathon. Participants meet new people and learn first-hand of the challenges and opportunities provided by the skill sets and work environments of others. This work builds on the existing body of research concerning hackathons and in particular work in the context of participatory medicine

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“…Other authors have pointed out that hackathons are highly social events that provide opportunities to build relationships 19,28 and experience excitement around shared motivations 16,40 . However, such intangible outcomes are difficult to document.…”

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“…Others are news and opinion pieces [12][13][14][15] . Only a few published sources are based on systematic methodology such as surveys, interviews, or organizing structured data [16][17][18][19][20] .…”

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Community and Code: Nine Lessons from Nine NESCent Hackathons

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In recent years, there has been an explosion in the popularity of hackathonscreative, participant-driven meetings at which software developers gather for an intensive bout of programming, often organized in teams. Hackathons have tangible and intangible outcomes, such as code, excitement, learning, networking, and so on, whose relative merits are unclear. For example, a frequent complaint is that code is abandoned when the hackathon ends, and questions like, "which outcomes are produced most reliably?" and, "how valuable are they for participants, organizers, and sponsors?" remain open. As a first step in giving "hackology" a more rigorous footing, this paper describes the NESCent hackathon model, developed over the course of a decade to serve the academic discipline of evolutionary biology, with the dual goals of augmenting the community's shared software infrastructure, and fostering a diverse community of practice in open scientific software development. The paper presents a detailed guide to staging a NESCent-style hackathon, along with a structured information set on nine events involving 54 team projects. NESCent hackathons have produced tangible products with downstream impacts, including prototypes that were leveraged for major funding, incremental additions to production code bases, and creative drafts (designs, standards, and proofs-of-concept) that contributed to further work. The impacts of intangible outcomes could not be assessed objectively, but the subjective experience suggests that hackathons have a positive impact by (1) providing individuals with valuable experiences, networking, and training, and (2) fostering a more cohesive community of practice by enhancing awareness of challenges and best practices and by building links of familiarity between and among resources and people. Future research that recognizes the diverse outcomes of hackathons might enable evidence-based decisions about how to design hackathons for effectiveness.

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On the Benefits of Corporate Hackathons for Software Ecosystems – A Systematic Mapping Study

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Industrial Experiences of Organizing a Hackathon to Assess a Device-centric Cloud Ecosystem

Cited by 35 publications

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How do the design features of health hackathons contribute to participatory medicine?

How do the design features of health hackathons contribute to participatory medicine?

Community and Code: Nine Lessons from Nine NESCent Hackathons

On the Benefits of Corporate Hackathons for Software Ecosystems – A Systematic Mapping Study

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