Creative Information Use Among Young Adults: Challenges for Learning and Opportunities for Media (Re)Design

Yong Ming Kow; Yunan Chen; Waikuen Cheng; Shun Hei Nit

doi:10.1145/3059454.3059473

Creative Information Use Among Young Adults: Challenges for Learning and Opportunities for Media (Re)Design

Yong Ming Kow, Yunan Chen, Waikuen Cheng, Shun Hei Nit

School of Creative Media

Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary Works › RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication) › peer-review

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Abstract

Despite spending significant amounts of time on the Internet, today's young adults often do not use online information effectively to support their creative pursuits--an activity we refer to as creative information use. In this exploratory study, we interviewed 19 media art college students in Hong Kong to understand their creative information use and to identify the challenges they faced in engaging with creative information online. The interviews reveal that young adults lacked sufficient media literacy to negotiate information online. More importantly, our study suggests that parents, teachers, and peers often failed to collectively sustain young adults' media-related interests and creativity development. We discuss research gaps in HCI and the design of technologies, and raise important issues of creative information use for future studies.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	C&C '17
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	407-420
ISBN (Print)	9781450344036
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3059454.3059473
Publication status	Published - Jun 2017
Event	11th ACM Creativity and Cognition 2017: Lifelong creativity, learning, and innovation - Singapore, Singapore Duration: 27 Jun 2017 → 30 Jun 2017 http://cc.acm.org/2017/

Conference

Conference	11th ACM Creativity and Cognition 2017
Abbreviated title	C&C
Place	Singapore
City	Singapore
Period	27/06/17 → 30/06/17
Internet address	http://cc.acm.org/2017/

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Information use
Internet
Self-directed learning
Sociocultural
Young adults

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Kow, YM, Chen, Y, Cheng, W & Nit, SH 2017, Creative Information Use Among Young Adults: Challenges for Learning and Opportunities for Media (Re)Design. in C&C '17 : Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 407-420, 11th ACM Creativity and Cognition 2017, Singapore, Singapore, 27/06/17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3059454.3059473

Creative Information Use Among Young Adults: Challenges for Learning and Opportunities for Media (Re)Design. / Kow, Yong Ming; Chen, Yunan; Cheng, Waikuen et al.
C&C '17 : Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition. Association for Computing Machinery, 2017. p. 407-420.

Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary Works › RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication) › peer-review

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