Upskilling Together: How Peer-interaction Influences Speaking-skills Development Online

Baten, Raiyan Abdul; Clark, Famous; Hoque, Mohammed Ehsan

doi:10.1109/acii.2019.8925448

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“…Approximately 51% of the tasks done in the US economy can be automated [2], and for each robot on the factory floor, some six jobs are lost [3]. The need for manual labour in predictable and repetitive work is declining, while the demand is soaring for expertise in creative tasks, problem-solving and other social-cognitive avenues of soft-skills [2,4,5]. Again, many of the critical and challenging tasks of the human civilization require humans to collaborate with others [6], where they need to perform creatively at both individual and collective levels.…”

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Creativity in temporal social networks: how divergent thinking is impacted by one’s choice of peers

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Bagley

Tenesaca

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J. R. Soc. Interface.

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Creativity is viewed as one of the most important skills in the context of future-of-work. In this paper, we explore how the dynamic (self-organizing) nature of social networks impacts the fostering of creative ideas. We run six trials ( N = 288) of a web-based experiment involving divergent ideation tasks. We find that network connections gradually adapt to individual creative performances, as the participants predominantly seek to follow high-performing peers for creative inspirations. We unearth both opportunities and bottlenecks afforded by such self-organization. While exposure to high-performing peers is associated with better creative performances of the followers, we see a counter-effect that choosing to follow the same peers introduces semantic similarities in the followers’ ideas. We formulate an agent-based simulation model to capture these intuitions in a tractable manner, and experiment with corner cases of various simulation parameters to assess the generality of the findings. Our findings may help design large-scale interventions to improve the creative aptitude of people interacting in a social network.

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Creativity in temporal social networks: how divergent thinking is impacted by one’s choice of peers

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Bagley

Tenesaca

et al. 2020

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“…Figure 7A compares the number of non-redundant ideas of the egos and solo participants, aggregated over all the trials. The participants in both the dynamic and static conditions significantly outperformed the solo participants in the total number of non-redundant ideas generated (p < 0.03 in both cases 8 ). However, there was no significant difference between the participants in the dynamic and static conditions (2-tailed test, p > 0.05).…”

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Creativity in temporal social networks: How divergent thinking is impacted by one's choice of peers

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Bagley,

Tenesaca

et al. 2019

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Creativity is viewed as one of the most important skills in the context of futureof-work. In this paper, we explore how the dynamic (self-organizing) nature of real social networks impacts the fostering of creative ideas. We run 6 trials (N=288) of a web-based experiment involving divergent ideation tasks. We find that network connections gradually adapt to individual creative performances, as the participants predominantly seek to follow high-performing peers for creative inspirations. We unearth both opportunities and bottlenecks afforded by such selforganization. While exposure to high-performing peers is associated with better creative performances of the followers, we see a counter-effect that choosing to follow the same peers introduces semantic redundancies in the followers' ideas. We formulate an agent-based simulation model that highlights the implications of these processes. Our findings may help design large-scale interventions to improve the creative aptitude of people interacting in a social network.

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“…Our insights can inform AI-driven intervention strategies for elevating creative performances in such platforms. These will leave implications for the future-of-work, where people will increasingly need to perform creatively in a collaborative setting [14][15][16] .…”

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Creativity in social networks is enhanced by 'Goldilocks' dispersal of ideators' visibility

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Aslin²,

Ghoshal³

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Recent works suggest that striking a balance between maximizing idea stimulation and minimizing idea redundancy can elevate creativity in self-organizing social networks. We explore whether dispersing the visibility of idea generators can help achieve such a trade-off. We employ popularity signals (follower counts) of participants as an external source of variation in network structures, which we control across four randomized study conditions. We observe that popularity signals influence inspiration-seeking ties, partly by biasing people's perception of their peers' creativity. Networks that partially disperse the ideators' visibility using this external signal show reduced idea-redundancy and elevated creativity. However, extreme dispersal leads to inferior creativity by narrowing the range of idea stimulation. Our work holds future-of-work implications for elevating creativity.

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Upskilling Together: How Peer-interaction Influences Speaking-skills Development Online

Cited by 5 publications

References 32 publications

Creativity in temporal social networks: how divergent thinking is impacted by one’s choice of peers

Creativity in temporal social networks: how divergent thinking is impacted by one’s choice of peers

Creativity in temporal social networks: How divergent thinking is impacted by one's choice of peers

Creativity in social networks is enhanced by 'Goldilocks' dispersal of ideators' visibility

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