Research Talk Series on Digitalization 2024

(11.12.2023) Starting on February 6th 2024 a recurring series of research talks on digitalization with internationally renowned scholars is hosted in the Triangle space. Together with the Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB), the Institute of Information Systems and Marketing (IISM) and the Karlsruhe Service Research Institute (KSRI) we would like you to invite you to the upcoming talks!

On February 6th 2024, Prof. Dr. Ivo Blohm, Director of the Information Systems Institute, University of St. Gallen (IWI-HSG), will open the Research Talk Series on Digitalization 2024. He will introduce the research topic of “Hybrid Creativity: How Artificial Intelligence Can Defy or Reinforce Human Creative Performance”. A brief introduction into the topic is provided with the following abstract.

Abstract

Creativity is a crucial factor in developing innovation and prosperity. While creativity is originally a trait attributed to humans, novel technological affordances in (generative) artificial intelligence have questioned this notion. These advances have paved the way for approaches of hybrid creativity, in which humans and machines interact in novel ways that can improve joint creative performance. However, this novel class of creativity interventions might not only help overcome human biases in creativity (e.g., cognitive fixation) but might also be harmful to individual creative performance (e.g. crowding out motivation). By combining the design of novel approaches to hybrid creativity and behavioral research, we strive to identify how AI can support human creativity throughout the phases of idea generation, idea development, and idea evaluation.

Further sessions will take place with Stephanie Rinderle-Ma, Technical University Munich, Germany on March 5th 2024 and Dominik Gutt, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands on April 16th 2024. For more information about the research talk series, see: https://www.wirtschaftsinformatik.kit.edu/research-talk-series.php

We are looking forward to see you at the upcoming sessions!