Assessing Support for Creativity: a User Evaluation of the Envisionment and Discovery Collaboratory (EDC)
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Creativity is an important factor in collaborative activities such as design. Many researchers have developed design tools and environments to support the design process and creativity within the design process. However, with a few exceptions, the understanding and support of creativity has received little attention in the design community. Even in the exceptions, there has been little reported effort to perform evaluations of the design tools and environments in terms of their effectiveness at supporting creativity. In this paper we report a user evaluation of one of the few support tools with an explicit focus on supporting creativity in design activities – the Envisionment and Discovery Collaboratory (EDC). The results of this evaluation will lead to future developments of the EDC and recommendations for future creativity support tools and design environments. Author
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