How Do Hackathons Foster Creativity? Towards Automated Evaluation of Creativity at Scale

要旨

Hackathons have become popular collaborative events for accelerating the development of creative ideas and prototypes. There are several case studies showcasing creative outcomes across domains such as industry, education, and research. However, there are no large-scale studies on creativity in hackathons which can advance theory on how hackathon formats lead to creative outcomes. We conducted a computational analysis of 193,353 hackathon projects. By operationalizing creativity through usefulness and novelty, we refined our dataset to 10,363 projects, allowing us to analyze how participant characteristics, collaboration patterns, and hackathon setups influence the development of creative projects. The contribution of our paper is twofold: We identified means for organizers to foster creativity in hackathons. We also explore the use of large language models (LLMs) to augment the evaluation of creative outcomes and discuss challenges and opportunities of doing this, which has implications for creativity research at large.

著者
Jeanette Falk
Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark
Yiyi Chen
Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark
Janet Rafner
Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
Mike Zhang
Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark
Johannes Bjerva
Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark
Alexander Nolte
Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands
DOI

10.1145/3706598.3713447

論文URL

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3713447

動画

会議: CHI 2025

The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (https://chi2025.acm.org/)

セッション: Creativity Support

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2025-04-29 23:10:00
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