The work of architecture is believed to depend on the governing thought in the process of architectural designing. This thought can be analyzed, developed, experienced, and interpreted. Creativity is the only domineering force in the idea of designing which is in quest for freeing architecture from the routine methods, and also finding the novel systems to answer the questions in architecture. ...

Contrary to our näıve understanding that ideas for innovation are generated by supply-side such as product developers, studies suggest that ideas can be generated by consumers, especially the group of users called ”early adopters” who behave differently from product developers in regard to product adoption and general knowledge. This research includes an experiment with consumers to test what i...

The idea of the creative individualist spawning innovations as a solitude effort is no longer realistic. Huge innovation projects, relying on project teams, have to be permanently conducted by organizations to assure their competitiveness. These projects often take place in distributed teams, making use of groupware to bridge temporal and geographical distances. Research in social psychology on...

Creativity is an ability that is crucial in nowadays societies. It is, therefore, important to develop activities that stimulate creativity at a very young age. It seems, however, that there is a lack of tools to support these activities. In this paper, we introduce Cubus, a tool that uses autonomous synthetic characters to stimulate idea generation in groups of children during a storytelling a...

Why are some technology-mediated interactions between pairs of individuals more successful than others in generating creative ideas? To seek the answers to this question, we study the generation of creative ideas from a dyadic perspective. We examine the attributes of dyadic ties that influence the generation of creative ideas, and how the strength of influence changes contingently on the usage...

The design of tools for creative activities affects the creative processes and output of users. In this paper we consider how an understanding of creative interaction can inform the design of support tools in a creative domain, and where creative needs cross domain boundaries. Using observations of musical composers we analyse the theoretical approaches to understanding creativity and their use...

This paper presents computational experiments with a multiagent framework of design to explore the idea that gatekeeping structures can determine how new solutions are created and spread in a society. These experiments support the idea that creativity transcends the individual domain. Situational factors such as the role of gatekeepers may determine how and who is considered creative in a society.

Both scientists and artists have suggested that sleep facilitates creativity, and this idea has received substantial empirical support. In the current study, we investigate whether one can actively enhance the beneficial effect of sleep on creativity by covertly reactivating the creativity task during sleep. Individuals' creative performance was compared after three different conditions: sleep-...