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To-Do

Create a response as a group to the following questions:

1. how and to which extent does the EDC support individual and/or social creativity?
2. which features of the EDC (if any) did you find interesting / impressive?
3. which features are missing from the EDC?

how and to which extent does the EDC support individual and/or social creativity?

EDC supports Social Creativity in design directly and Individual Creativity indirectly.

Participants externalize their internal thought processes, allowing other participants to understand each other's thoughts entirely.  Understanding another's thoughts means knowing the foundation of the problem another is coping with, the solution they have devised, and the process by which they came to that conclusion.  When all participants understand each other's ideas, the Symmetry of Ignorance is fully exploited; all currently known facets of a problem, and all currently devised solutions to that problem are in the open for all participants to inspect and voice their opinions on.

This in turn leads to deeper individual creativity.  Knowing the problems and solutions of others allows for an individual to reanalyze his own solutions and synthesize a new solution that accounts for other's problems and solutions.

Also, through externalizing, participants better understand what their own solutions, and any flaws in reasoning that were missed during internal synthesis.

which features of the EDC (if any) did you find interesting / impressive?

The idea of making a smart board into a table and putting objects on it that appear on the screen is just fascinating.  The way that the table (action space) and the screen (reflection space) interact is unique and just, there's no other way to put it, cool.  We can't wait to see it in action on Wednesday. 

We like the feature that it keeps track of the cost of running the buses.  It makes it easy to see if adding a bus to a line is worth it without having to put it into action first, or make the users do a lot of math.

The survey being added to the project is great too, because it makes it so everyone can be heard.  Sometimes in group discussions people don't get to voice their opinions, or they just need time to think about it first.  The survey allows them time to collect their ideas, put them into words, and share them easily with everyone else.

which features are missing from the EDC?

One thing that we feel that could be added to the EDC is deeper Google Maps/Google Earth integration. Constructing the city layout using the blocks undoubtedly takes time. This could be made more efficient by having the actual satellite image of the city used in place of the one created by the collaborators. An issue here might be automatically detecting what type each building represents (residence, etc.), though Google Maps does already incorporate existing bus stops. We are also not sure how easy this would be to integrate into AgentSheets.

Another thing we feel could be added to the EDC is more detailed time information. While it does already calculate the frequency of bus arrivals, another important factor is the actual time each bus arrives. A bus may arrive at an appropriate interval for a particular person, but if the schedule is shifted in the wrong direction (doesn't start early enough or doesn't run late enough), then the bus stop is of no use to them.