We review Margaret Boden's book The Creative Mind, an excellent survey and synthesis of current computational theories of creativity. Boden's stated goal is to explain how creativity (as a psychological phenomenon) is possible, where an explanation of possibility is taken to be a computational process. Although Boden does not deliver a full-edged computational explanation and leaves most detail...

It has been found that design creativity is closely related with personal characteristics and design-related abilities. To verify this fact systematically, I inspected personal characteristics and learning styles. Moreover I assessed spatial perceptual ability, constructive perceptual ability and visual reasoning ability as design-related ability. Also, students were received several designrela...

[Context and Motivation] The word “creativity” is used widely in business and academia, but its meaning may differ greatly depending on context. This may cause confusion in the minds of requirements engineers who have to determine which kinds of creativity are relevant to their project and which creativity tools to use. [Question/Problem] The main goal of this work is to understand why and how ...

Architectural education requires efficient methods to demonstrate its efficiency to meet the quantitative and qualitative needs derived from modern socio-economic development. In architectural education, the ability to design is an essential part and the main goal of education. Looking at the various methods and patterns related to architectural education and the type and content of instruction...

Having examined in Part One the main aspects of the global architecture of IPRs, Part Two focuses on some broad cross-cutting issues that could be seen as opportunities for developing countries in the design of intellectual property regimes which are responsive to their local conditions. The following chapters discuss issues such as innovation and creativity, access to new technologies and tran...

This multitrait multimethod twin study examined the structure and sources of individual differences in creativity. According to different theoretical and metrological perspectives, as well as suggestions based on previous research, we expected 2 aspects of individual differences, which can be described as perceived creativity and creative test performance. We hypothesized that perceived creativ...

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how advanced computer methods may be able to provide new insights into a complex creative activity such as music performance. The context is an inter-disciplinary research project in which Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods are used to analyse patterns in performances by human artists. In asking how the computer can take us closer to an understand...