Exploring Design Space Through Remixing

5 Pages Posted: 6 Jun 2015 Last revised: 14 Dec 2015

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Yue Han

Stevens Institute of Technology - School of Business

Jeffrey V. Nickerson

Stevens Institute of Technology - School of Business

Date Written: June 4, 2015

Abstract

Open innovation communities promote collective intelligence by providing members platforms to design and create user-generated content. Among these communities, many have incorporated a system to encourage users to modify each other’s work in a process called remixing. Remixing continues to evolve in open innovation communities including Github, Scratch, Thingiverse, and ccMixer. Remixing in online communities relies on a small number of technical features, and understanding the way these features are used may help us design more productive online communities. Remixing can be thought of as a form of product evolution: Together a community explores a design space of possibilities, starting from the many designs already created.

Keywords: Remixing, Collective Intelligence, Open Innovation

Suggested Citation

Han, Yue and Nickerson, Jeffrey V., Exploring Design Space Through Remixing (June 4, 2015). Collective Intelligence, 2015, Stevens Institute of Technology School of Business Research Paper No. 2015–57, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2614623

Yue Han

Stevens Institute of Technology - School of Business ( email )

Hoboken, NJ 07030
United States

Jeffrey V. Nickerson (Contact Author)

Stevens Institute of Technology - School of Business ( email )

Hoboken, NJ 07030
United States

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