Use and Influence of Creative Ideas and Requirements for a Work-Integrated Learning System

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

“…Evidence from our projects revealed that creative requirements are rarely generated directly, but result from transformations applied to artifacts acquired directly from stakeholders and other sources and often less novel and/or useful [29,32]. Therefore, as well as the need for more idea finding, other activities are also needed to generate creative requirements from new ideas.…”

“…Evidence suggests that most requirements generated in projects are similar to existing artifacts in the domain and not novel [29]. We depict these requirements in the bottomright quadrant.…”

Using data to stimulate creative thinking in the design of new products and services

“…Maiden et al [24] have discussed how creativity workshops in which a range of stakeholder representatives undertake activities using techniques such as constraint removal, brainstorming with creativity triggers and analogical reasoning can prompt participants to generate important ideas for requirements that are considered both novel and appropriate, and that may otherwise remain unexpressed. Jones et al [21] report on a workshop in a similar style that encouraged participants to brainstorm with creativity triggers, generate new ideas by removing constraints, and combine ideas about problems or requirements with other ideas about the application of new technologies; and Sustar et al [37] used similar techniques in workshops involving designers and older people in the design of digital devices.…”

“…The same domain experts were also asked to rate each idea from 0 to 5 for appropriateness, based on the their view of the idea's usefulness within this domain and it's fit to the workshops' objective. This evaluation follows Sternberg and Lubart's [36] definition of creativity in terms of novelty and appropriateness, described earlier, and an approach to evaluation outlined in Dean et al [8] and previously used in Jones et al [21].…”

Creative User-Centered Visualization Design for Energy Analysts and Modelers

“…Techniques for deliberately introducing creativity into the process of user-centered design can be used effectively in this context. For example, Schmid [46] used creativity triggers [42] to help workshop participants invent requirements, whilst co-creation [45] and creativity workshops [24,31] have been shown to be effective in generating novel requirements.…”