Characteristics of applications that support creativity

2010 18th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference

Jones

Karlsen

et al. 2010

Section: Transformational Creativity Techniquesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Requirements Engineering as Creative Problem Solving: A Research Agenda for Idea Finding

2010 18th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference

Jones

Karlsen

et al. 2010

“…Creativity support tools should afford pain-free search and exploration [10]. Results suggest that the Risk Hunting application affords these behaviours by manipulating written natural language that does not require user training.…”

Section: Conclusion Discussion and Future Workmentioning

confidence: 97%

Evaluating Digital Creativity Support To Improve Health-and-Safety in a Manufacturing Plant

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Zachos

Lockerbie

et al. 2017

This paper reports an evaluation of digital support for human creativity to improve health-and-safety in one manufacturing plant. It reports the use of this support as part of the plant's risk management process over 66 working days. Results revealed that this use led to more complete, more useful and more novel risk resolutions, compared with the original paper process, and informed how digital creativity support can be rolled out across manufacturing plants, as well as to other domains not recognized as creative.

“…Moreover, our recent experiences with digital tools to support creative professional work have revealed the need to integrate this digital creativity support into daily work practices, to avoid additional cognitive load and support pain-free exploration and experimentation with the tools (Greene 2002). For example the Risk Hunting app, a digital tool that provides creativity support to employees on production lines to resolve health-and-safety risks in a manufacturing plant creatively (Zachos et al 2015), was discovered to be more effective when it was integrated tightly into daily work practices.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The limited but successful uptake of digital tools to support human creativity in other creative industries reveals one possible form of new digital creativity support in journalism, as long as these tools are integrated into the tools and practices of daily professional work. Indeed, successful creativity support tools are expected to support pain-free exploration and experimentation to promote active learning and discovery (Greene 2002), so one outstanding challenge for interaction designers is to deliver effective digital support for creative thinking that is embedded seamlessly in the practices of different professions such as journalism.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Developing and Evaluating Digital Creativity Support in Google Docs for Journalists

Electronic Workshops in Computing

Zachos

Lockerbie

et al. 2016

Although journalism is classified as one of the creative industries, there is little bespoke digital support for creative thinking by journalists. To fill the gap, this paper reports new research that led to the implementation and first evaluation of JUICE, a new digital prototype to support creative thinking by journalists during the early development of news stories. Emerging from a usercentred design process, JUICE is implemented as a simple Add-on Sidebar and Dialog Box in Google Docs that a journalist can invoke when developing news stories. Interviews with experienced journalists were used to elicit 6 strategies that JUICE uses to guide its users to generate different angles on news stories using creative information searches and interactive creativity support. In this paper we describe the information search algorithm and new interactive support to create news stories with one of these strategies -the individual human angle on the story -then report a first evaluation of JUICE implemented with the algorithm and support during its use by journalism students. Results revealed that most of these student journalists were able use JUICE to generate new news stories with individual human angles in a short period of time, but still used established web search tools to collect more detailed information about the angle in order to write the story. Journalist feedback was used to improve the usability of JUICE and design new interactive features.