This document discusses the development of "c-books", which are interactive e-books that aim to foster creative thinking. C-books will contain widgets that allow for dynamic manipulation and constructionism. They will also support collaborative design and will include analytics of how readers interact with the content. The project aims to determine if c-books could serve as a new type of expressive medium and promote social creativity and mathematical thinking in new ways. Key goals are to integrate diverse interactive elements, enable collaborative authoring, and analyze usage data. The project researchers are evaluating how effectively c-books can engage readers and generate novel outcomes through a design process within a community.

1. M C squared: social creativity in designing c-books for
engagement with CMT
Chronis Kynigos, CTI
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2. The creative e-book
• Interactive vs creative e-books
• How does reading change?
• What roles will users of c-books adopt?
• How will readers be addressed?
• How can an author inspire creativity?
• How will the meaning of ‘a book’ change?
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3. The ‘c-book’
• Can contain constructionist widgets from
diverse widget factories (from
Cinderella-E-slate-Geogebra to Scratch-
NETLOGO etc)
• Supports collaborative design with
CoIcode
• Will support authorable data analytics
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4. A new kind of mediation?
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5. A new kind of mediation?
•An e-book creatively affording creative mathematical
thinking
•Expressive medium
•Fusion between reading and meaning generation with
expressive media
• Connected representations
• Dynamic manipulation
• Constructionism
• Inquiry
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6. M c 2 and integration
Technical work:
• integration of diverse
widgets
• integration of
authoring,
collaboration and data
analytics
Evaluation:
SC in design
• Integration of DG and
BC
• Integration of 4 diverse
operationalizations of
DG and BC
CMT as an affordance
• Creative thinking
• CMT
• Social creativity and
MT
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7. Socio-technical environments
Social Creativity (S-C) in a design project (Fischer,
2001, 2011)
creativity as activity focusing on a design problem of
common concern (the “interest”) situated in a
socio-technical environment
Community of Interest (CoI)
specially designed computational media
fueled by a culture of participation
exemplified in social processes and practices
leading to novel/new, useful and desirable outputs
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8. Collaborative designs with CoIcode
Figure 1: The CoI’s discussion thread
Mind map –
forum
Semantics to
encourage social
creativity
(alternative,
contributory,
objecting)
Embedded
tools for
versioning
Adornment and
other tools for
structuring and
navigating
through a
discussion
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9. A glimpse at emerging
c-book units
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10. Where we are
Technical work
Prototype & manual 90% ready? (D3.2 – m 12)
Requirement analysis D2.1.1 m 12 – status?
D3.1, 4.1, D5.1 m12
Javascript/html5 version developments
Feedback, new affordances for CoIcode
Data analytics: developments
Evaluation work
In the midst of cycle 2 : 5 more c-book units per CoI plus 1 c-book unit for wp7
Complete version 1 of integration tools (templates)
Structure our analysis objectives (GRQs and SRQs) and methods (‘critical episode’, etc)
D2.2, D2.3 m15
D6.2 m16, D7.1 m17
Dissemination/exploitation plans
D8.3.1 m12
Use of resources
Justify major deviations
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11. The most pertinent question to us so
far (Ken Kahn)
What else are we
contributing other than that
we’re producing
generalized constructionist
e-books a few years (or
months) early?
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12. An M C 2 response
We’re addressing the questions:
(1)could this be a new kind of
expressive medium / document?
(2)If yes, can it promote SC and
CMT in new ways?
We’re developing a technology
with 3 integrated affordances:
- Diverse widgets
- Collaborative design
- Authoring system for data
analytics
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13. • A book as a ‘living document’ for the
reader
• A need for creativity in designing c-books
to promote creativity in their readers
• A need for diverse views and methods to
integrate amongst them
• A need to have information on what
readers do with a c-book
• Improvable boundary objects to generate
boundary crossings within a CoI: widget
instances and unit versionings
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