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Campos, Pedro; Gonçalves, Frederica; Martins, Michael; Campos, Miguel; Freitas, Paulo

doi:10.1145/2639189.2670250

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Enhancing Your Mental Well-Being and Creativity While Writing: A Crowdsource-Based Approach

Gonçalves¹,

Campos²

2019

Human Work Interaction Design. Designing Engaging Automation

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We describe a crowdsourcing platform for writing called Creative-Wall, where users can preserve their creative writings and share them with the community. By using images, moods and locations we create a more visual perspective of a moment that can bring creativity and mental well-being to the writer. We also present an evaluation of our crowdsourced platform. Our findings suggest that, from a mental well-being perspective, the participants felt more inspired, more focused, more creative and more immersed when using the Crea-tiveWall add-in. Additionally, CreativeWall helps writers to trigger their creativity while writing. We highlight some results triangulating qualitative and quantitative data. Results show that users performing the tasks with CreativeWall lost track of time more often than participants using our baseline. From user interviews, results suggest that the tasks performed with the CreativeWall add-in were more enjoyable and that the users had no issues kickstarting the writing process, which could mean that these tools can help in the initial phase of the creative writing process.

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Enhancing Your Mental Well-Being and Creativity While Writing: A Crowdsource-Based Approach

Gonçalves¹,

Campos²

2019

Human Work Interaction Design. Designing Engaging Automation

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SonAmi: A Tangible Creativity Support Tool for Productive Procrastination

Belakova

Mackay

2021

Creativity and Cognition

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Our goal is to help creative writers make procrastination productive. Interviews with eight creative writers highlighted two key practices: Over Criticizing, where perfectionism and negative self-appraisal demotivates them and reduces their output; and Creative Voicing, where speaking their text aloud promotes reflection and inspires new possibilities. A structured observation study compared writers' perception of their own, pre-recorded text versus computer-generated voices. The latter distances them from their text and offers new perspectives. We developed SonAmi, an interactive coaster that voices selected dialog whenever the author lifts their mug. Two creative writers said SonAmi made them feel they were listening to "someone else's text" or "a podcast", which helped them identify and improve writing issues. We show how tangible creativity support tools can build upon authors' existing strategies i.e. voicing their own words, and take advantage of naturally occurring events e.g., taking a sip of coffee, to support productive procrastination without interfering with creative flow.CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Sound-based input / output; Empirical studies in HCI .

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