Within the field of Computational Creativity, significant effort has been devoted towards identifying variegating aspects of the creative process and constructing appropriate metrics for determining the degree that an artefact exhibits creativity with respect to these aspects. However, the formalization of a person’s creativity (i.e. a creativity user profile) as a derivative of such creations ...

The aim of this article is to illustrate the relation between the cognitive styles in Kolb's experiential learning model and dominance in brain functioning. A descriptive analytical study of the literature on creativity and the development of creative thinking, explored various theories and definitions of creativity, and the nature of creative learning. Congruences between cognitive styles and ...

DARCI (Digital ARtist Communicating Intention) is a creative system that we are developing to explore the bounds of computational creativity within the domain of visual art. As with many creative systems, as we increase the autonomy of DARCI, the quality of the artifacts it creates and then curates decreases—a phenomenon Colton and Wiggins have termed the latent heat effect. We present two new ...

It is commonly assumed that positive mood improves human creativity and that the neurotransmitter dopamine might mediate this association. However, given the non-linear relation between dopamine and flexibility in divergent thinking (Akbari Chermahini and Hommel, 2010), the impact of mood on divergent kinds of creativity might depend on a given individual's tonic dopamine level. We tested this ...

In a previous study we have shown that human motion trajectories can be characterized by translating continuous trajectories into symbol sequences with well-defined complexity measures. Here we test the hypothesis that the motion complexity individuals generate in their movements might be correlated to the degree of creativity assigned by a human observer to the visualized motion trajectories. ...

With the rapid development of multimedia technology, digital storytelling has been widely applied in education. This article argues that digital storytelling is a multimedia narrative form which involves critical thinking and creative abilities. These two elements are very important in multimedia feature writing. This article analyzes the application of digital storytelling approach in a multim...

This article makes a case for a positive role of tension in the creative process in chemistry. I begin with an argument that there is an inherent tension in what makes molecules interesting--their positioning along various polar axes. One of these, the age-old differentiation between useful (to society and for personal profit) commercialization and pure understanding of molecules and their reac...

The area of graphic design has expanded since digital media was introduced, and it requires new creative thinking skills in the design process. This paper proposes a design process for a graphic design graduate class using activity theory as a theoretical background. This design process consists of three phases to solve the design problems within diverse design projects. Each phase was examined...

What is creativity? Generally, artefacts are labelled as creative if they are both novel and appropriate; individuals are regarded as creative if they produce creative works [1]. More specific definitions of creativity vary greatly in the details of what makes someone or something creative. Some definitions require that creative products must be the result of some creative mental processes, eff...

This large, international dataset contains survey responses from N = 12,570 students 100 universities in 35 countries, collected 21 languages. We measured anxieties (statistics, mathematics, test, trait, social interaction, performance, creativity, intolerance of uncertainty, and fear negative evaluation), self-efficacy, persistence, the cognitive reflection demographics, previous mathematics g...