Creative Exploration and its Illnesses

Creative Foraging: A Quantitative Paradigm for Studying Creative Exploration

Creative exploration is central to science, art and cognitive development. However, research on creative exploration is limited by a lack of high-resolution automated paradigms. To address this, we present such an automated paradigm, the creative foraging game, in which people search for novel and valuable solutions in a large and well-defined space made of all possible shapes made of ten conne...

“A Comparative Exploration of the Phenomenological Conception of Creative Imagination and Its Role in the Digital and Non-Digital Architectural Design Processes”

Imagination and its relation to creativity are among the most important issues related to the design category in various areas of architectural inquiry such as architectural design, whose function and role have changed in recent decades due to use and application of computers in the architectural design processes. Given all the changes occurred in the meaning and concept of architecture, by the...

A Computational Exploration of Creative Similes

Creative Collaborative Exploration in Multiple Environments

We seek to support creativity in science, engineering, and design applications by building infrastructure that offers new capabilities for creative collaborative exploration of complex data in a variety of non-traditional computing environments. We describe particular novel environments and devices, including the Allosphere and the interactive Fogscreen, the software components to support colla...

Creative Exploration Using Topic Based Bisociative Networks

Bisociative knowledge discovery is an approach that combines elements from two or more “incompatible” domains to generate creative solutions and insight. Inspired by Koestler’s notion of bisociation, in this paper we propose a computational framework for the discovery of new connections between domains to promote creative discovery and inspiration in design. Specifically, we propose using topic...