The Observable Creative Process and Reflection-on-action

The way in which creativity support tools guide creative thinking as well as the externalisation of it largely remains an unanswered question. Creative professionals should be aware of these effects so that they can better develop their practice. The proliferation of software in the creative process provides opportunities for the development of features that allow professionals to reflect on the creative process and thereby to improve this awareness. This work proposes a methodology for capturing and analysing creative processes that are mediated by creativity support tools. The captured data is described in terms of an ontology and the analysis of the data is based on a sequence-detection algorithm. The methodology is expected to lead to insights into the role that creativity support tools play in the creative process as well as to design guidelines for representations of the creative process that are useful for reflection. Author