Computer Support for Creativity: Help or Hindrance?

The “ creative - schizotype ” : Help or hindrance to team - level innovation ?

Fostering motivation and creativity for computer users

Creativity might be viewed as any process which results in a novel and useful product. People use computers for creative tasks; they flesh out ideas for text, graphics, engineering solutions, etc. Computer programming is an especially creative activity, but few tools for programming aid creativity. Most computers are used in solitude; however, people depend on social supports for creativity. A ...

The Role of Gender in Relationships Between Computer Literacy and Analytical Literacy with Creativity in Students

The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between analytical literacy and computer literacy with creativity and with the role of moderating gender in high school students in secondary period in Guilan province. The method of descriptive research of correlational type and the statistical society included the high school students in secondary period of Guilan province in the first s...

Enhancing the Creativity Process by Adding Context Awareness in Creativity Support Tools

The existence of creativity support tools establishes creativity as part of the Computer Science research. Therefore, the development of computational methods for the enhancement of creativity is undoubtedly a challenge. In this paper we argue that adding context awareness in creativity support tools will enhance the creativity process. This belief is based on the evaluation of a number of the ...

Art practice augmented by digital agents

Computers can be very helpful to us by performing tasks on our behalf. For example, they are very good at performing calculations, storing information and producing visualisations of objects that do not yet exist as a made artifact. Increasingly, however, a different role is being found for the computer. It is the role of a catalyst, or a stimulant, to our own creative thinking. In such cases t...