Evaluation methods for creativity support environments

Abstract

Creativity refers to the human processes that underpin sublime forms of expression and fuel innovation. Creativity support environments (CSEs) address diverse areas, including education, science, business, programming, design, art, performance, and everyday life. An environment may consist of a desktop application, or involve specialized hardware, networked topologies, and mobile devices. CSEs may address temporal-spatial aspects of collaborative work.This workshop will gather a community of researchers developing and evaluating creativity support environments. We will share approaches, engage in dialogue, and develop best practices. The outcome will not be a single prescription, but rather a landscape of routes, an ontology of methodologies with consideration to how they map to creative activities, and an emerging consensus on the range of expectations for rigorous evaluation to shape the field of CSE research. The workshop will organize an open repository of CSE evaluation methods and test data.

Towards a Reflection in Creative Experience Questionnaire

“…This supports Bentvelzen et al 's [9] suggestion that comparisons to an absolute reference encourage reflection, such as by visualising feedback on people's performance. However, in many creative experiences measures of success are subjective [45]. Perhaps encouraging social comparisons (for example, by sharing work to social media) are thus more useful in creative contexts, supporting reflection through conversations [9].…”

“…CST research often overlaps with user experience research, approaching evaluation based on people's subjective experiences. This contrasts more conventional HCI measures of a system's usability which can be inappropriate for creative tasks [45]. For example, conventional HCI measures might consider fast task completion to be a measure of success whereas more time spent on a creative task might be a positive indicator of immersion.…”

Using abstraction in MDA-based reverse engineering for creative evolution

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How Project Based Learning Boost Learning Environment

“…PBL was designed to provide stimuli to provoke, enhance, and promote creative processes and products but, considering to [37] that there are some disruptions can promote creativity, other types can disrupt the sense of immersion in the creative task. So, in this research the concept of a creative learning environment is a condition when people feel comfortable or not in expressing their ideas and when constructive support is given in the development and analysis of those ideas.…”