The Development of a Scale to Assess Creative Collaboration via Online Tools

The CoCreat project aims to explore the potential of mobile technology and web based social media to enhance creativity in a variety of spaces and amongst a range of age groups by supporting collaboration. The project itself studies a series of different collaborative spaces in which a variety of web based technologies are applied, developed and tested. The environments vary from urban and rural contexts, to higher education and elementary school contexts, and elderly people. In order to develop the proposed models that show how creative collaboration is structured and can be scaffolded, we need first to identify how creative collaboration occurs in the different collaborative spaces. In order to do this we have reviewed a wide range of previous literature on creativity and collaboration to inform the development of an assessment scale for creative collaboration. This paper presents the most relevant literature, the resulting criteria identified as having potential to be used to assess levels of creative collaboration and the scale itself.