[NORSLIS] Cfp: Special Issue of Information and Learning Sciences on “Inquiry, Search, and Creativity.”

[Preben Hansen]

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    Cfp: Special Issue of Information and Learning Sciences on “Inquiry,
    Search, and Creativity.”

Read detailed CFP here:
https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/call_for_papers.htm?id=8774

*Guest Editors:*

Preben Hansen, Dept. of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm 
University, Sweden
Soo Young Rieh, School of Information, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Michael Twidale, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois 
at Urbana-Champaign, USA

This Special Issue is intended to bring together scholars from 
information science, learning and education sciences, HCI and design and 
other disciplines to present a collection of contributions to further 
our understanding of how inquiry and search activities affect in 
people's creativity and how creativity can be understood as a driver in 
information searching situations.

Creativity is a fundamental human ability and a complex phenomenon to 
study. It can mean to make, to produce or to cause to grow. Thus, it can 
be referred to as something that 'comes into existence'. Creative ideas 
or products have to be different, novel, innovative, or of high quality 
(Kaufman & Sternberg, 2010). Creative processes may also take place in 
well or ill-defined spaces, which may affect situations in which 
learning and inquiries take place. Sawyer (2012) emphasizes that 
creative people actively seek out new information, solutions, 
connections, and problems and then engage in the critical thinking 
process by synthesizing information from multiple perspectives (Twidale 
and Rieh, 2019).

Searching and inquiry are fundamental human processes that require 
higher-level cognitive activity (Hansen & Rieh, 2016). A creative 
approach to search may involve what is known as an "inspire item search" 
– a type of search different in style and method to a "known item 
search." As Sawyer notes, creativity involves questioning and 
identifying problems, seeking out new information and solutions, 
formulating strategies, generating ideas, and combining ideas (2012). To 
the extent that search is involved, creativity might also be inclusive 
of critically evaluating the usefulness and credibility of information, 
and judging its value across multiple sources in order to generate new 
ideas (Rieh, Collins-Thompson, Hansen, & Lee, 2016).

We seek submissions investigating a variety of topics related to 
inquiry, search, and creativity spanning across multiple research fields 
such as learning sciences, information seeking behavior, search as 
learning, human information interaction, interactive information 
retrieval, and user engagement and motivation. Contributions to this 
special issue will go beyond simply identifying the intersection between 
inquiry and creativity, or search and creativity. Contributions will 
also suggest new approaches and support for humans involved in creative 
activities while learning during inquiry, search and/or 
information-seeking environments (online or in situ in various inquiry 
contexts).

-Search as learning

-Supporting creativity in search

-User engagement and motivation

-Creative thinking process

-Transitional processes, e.g. between inquiry and creativity in search

-Divergent thinking for learning

-Inquiry and innovation

-Connecting information seeking and creativity

-Serendipitous information seeking and learning

-Creativity and ideation

-Enhancing creativity through information discovery

-Learning from multiple sources

-Inquiry learning and searching

-Individual vs. collaborative inquiry and creativity

-From known item search to searching for a surprise

-User support for human-based inquiry

-Human information interaction and creativity

-Support of cognitive processes during creative learning and searching

-New types of information interaction based on learning and creativity

*Important Dates: *

Initial submission due: February 15, 2020

First round decisions made: April 1, 2020

Revised manuscripts due: May 15, 2020

Final decisions confirmed (revised manuscripts approved): June 15, 2020

Anticipated publication date: Nov/Dec. 2020


*Submission Guidelines:*

Submissions should comply with the journal author guidelines that are 
here - see 
https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=ils. 
Submissions should be made through ScholarOne Manuscripts, the online 
submission and peer review system. Registration and access is available 
at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ils

*References*

Kaufman, J. C. & Sternberg, R. J. (Eds.). (2010). /The/ /Cambridge 
handbook of creativity/. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press

Hansen, P. & Rieh, S. Y. (2016). Editorial: Recent advances on searching 
as learning: An introduction to the special issue. /Journal of 
Information Science,/ /42/(1), 3-6.

Rieh, S. Y., Collins-Thompson, K., Hansen, P., & Lee, H-J (2016). Toward 
searching as a learning process: A review of current perspectives and 
future directions. /Journal of Information Science,/ /42/(1), 19-34.

Sawyer,K. (2012). /Explaining/ /creativity: The science of human 
innovation/. 2^nd ed. Oxford University Press, New York, NY.

Twidale,M. & Rieh, S. Y. (2019). Information seeking at the intersection 
of search, learning, inquiry, and creativity: Sharing stories to inform 
creative research. Proceedings of the Association for Information 
Science and Technology.

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Preben Hansen, Docent
Associate Professor, PhD

Research Fellow at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Group Manager for the Design and Collaborative Technologies Research Group
Unit of Interaction Design and Design for Learning
Department of Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV)
Stockholm University, SWEDEN


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