Graasp App: collaborative ideation

About

The Collaborative Ideation app in Graasp was made to organize blended and online activities where participants can share their inputs and react on them in real time. This app was designed and implemented inside the Graasp platform and is not independent from it.

Citation

If you use this software or take inspiration from it, please, cite it as below:

La Scala, J. (2025). Collaborative Ideation (v3.4.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15601591

For citing the latest version, use the permanent DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13862314

Related publications

This app was presented or used in the following publications:

• La Scala, J., Bartłomiejczyk, N., Gillet, D., & Holzer, A. (2025). Fostering Innovation with Generative AI: A Study on Human-AI Collaborative Ideation and User Anonymity. Proceedings of the 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 337–351. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.24251/HICSS.2025.041
• La Scala, J. A., Sahli, S., & Gillet, D. (2025, April). Stimulating Brainstorming Activities with Generative AI in Higher Education. 2025 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON62633.2025.11016340
• Farah, J. C., La Scala, J., Ingram, S., & Gillet, D. (2025, April). Supporting Brainstorming Activities with Bots in Software Engineering Education. 2025 IEEE/ACM 6th International Workshop on Bots in Software Engineering (BotSE). 2025 IEEE/ACM 6th International Workshop on Bots in Software Engineering (BotSE), Ottawa, Canada.

Development

This app being currently part of the general Graasp platform, you will find the most up-to-date general informations on the development of Graasp apps in the official Graasp technical documentation.

Installation

Clone this repository. To use and test the collaboration mechanism, we recommend to also install the full Graasp stack.

Running the app

Create a .env.development file with the following content:

bash VITE_PORT=3333 VITE_API_HOST=http://localhost:3000 VITE_ENABLE_MOCK_API=false VITE_GRAASP_APP_KEY=02052cf4-cc45-45c6-b0b8-61102244ed11 VITE_VERSION=latest VITE_WS_HOST=ws://localhost:3000/ws

To serve the app with the full Graasp stack, use yarn dev. If you want to try the app without the stack, use yarn dev:mock.

⚠️ If you don't use the full Graasp stack, please note that you won't be able to save the state of the application and use the collaboration.

Running the tests

Create a .env.test file with the following content:

```bash VITEPORT=3333 VITEAPIHOST=http://localhost:3636 VITEENABLEMOCKAPI=true VITEGRAASPAPPKEY=45678-677889 VITEVERSION=latest

dont open browser

BROWSER=none ```

Contributors

This app was designed, implemented, and is currently maintained by Jérémy La Scala (@swouf) from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.