According to Wikipedia creativity is “a mental and social process involving the generation of new ideas or problem solutions, or new associations of the creative mind between existing ideas or concepts”. Creativity towards innovation in product development settings are often used interchangeably. Innovation and creative product development refer to completely new as well as significantly improv...

This paper introduces e-Motion, a software system for the creation of animatics, which are important tools within the process of creation of animated graphics for TV. This type of animation, generated by the system from plots in plain text, allows production teams to envision how a final motion graphics piece can be developed. We argue that our system plays a creative role within the generative...

This paper is concerned with models of the innovation process. It takes the perspective that innovation is a non-linear process where development paths emerge from the process of ‘imagining’ and ‘doing’, iterating around in evolutionary cycles until a satisfactory innovation emerges. To support this we have developed a model of the innovation process called Creative Innovation Development (CID)...

UK, USA, and Germany have relatively advanced creative industries with different characteristics. In this paper, authors try to summarize experiences of developing creative industries in developed countries and put forward strategies for China developing creative industry.

The goal of this thesis has been to perform research on the relationship between the creative team, software architecture, and game development processes. Researching this relationship was done in three stages. The first stage was a literature review into software architecture and game development. In the second stage a questionnaire was designed based on the literature review, and this questio...

1.1 Urban identity? [“He went to a window and opened the shutters. “From this window you can enjoy the view of one of the most evocative places in Rome. Look, look at the harmony of storeys...” The window looked onto an anonymous crossroads with houses built in the immediate post-war period in the wake of one of the many demolitions. The street lights lit up this deserted environment completely...

Design of visual representation in geographical sciences is in most cases done within the confines of conventions or accepted practices that ensure that the visual designs adhere to, and remain within the realms of the usual and the expected. This is evident in conventional practices in cartography where map design is overwhelmingly constrained by the need for functional maps that target specif...

We view software development as a system of evolution consisting of the three elements: (1) artifacts, (2) individual developers, and (3) a community of developers. An individual’s determining what artifacts to contribute and how, with whom to communicate by asking or answering, and which role to play within the community affects the quality of software to be developed; how the developers relat...