Many designers realize they must create and manage design collaborations to achieve the breadth of expertise and perspective necessary to handle all the steps necessary to get technologies into the hands of the public. Managing such collaborations effectively is very challenging, but various useful concepts and techniques are available from the study of deliberate creativity and innovation. The...

the aim of this research was to compare the influence of the use of information technology (it) on creative thinking of students of computer (software branch) and education (primary school education) in islamic azad university of zanjan. the population included all the male and female students of software engineering and primary school education during the semester of 90-91, amounting to 100 pa...

Models of computational creativity promise to provide insight into the nature of human creative work and innovation. Intrinsically motivated, automated, creative agents present a potential avenue for the exploration of creativity in the arts, and in music in particular. A novel reinforcement learning agent designed to improvise music in a self-motivated fashion is described, formulated to prove...

Creativity is essential for successful engineering; it is necessary for all technological advancement, and is highly correlated with economic prosperity and success [1,2]. Creativity and innovation play a role in most levels of engineering education, and yet they are rarely discussed explicitly in courses. Engineers typically receive instruction in scientific principles and their conceptual app...

T he overarching theme of this year’s ACM Creativity and Cognition (ACM C1C) conference was “lifelong creativity, learning, and innovation” (http://cc.acm.org/2017). Taking place in Singapore in June 2017, this was the first time the conference was located in Asia. Now in its 11th year, C1C continued its tradition of bringing together researchers, practitioners, and educators from diverse disci...

In this paper we analyze the communication network of 50 students from five universities in three countries participating in a joint course on Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs). Students formed ten teams. Interaction variables calculated from the e-mail archive of individual team members predict the level of creativity of the team. Oscillating leadership, where members switch between ce...

We explore the relationship between creativity and both chronological and professional age in information science using a novel bibliometric approach that allows us to capture the shape of a scholar’s career. Our approach draws on Galenson’s (2006) analyses of artistic creativity, notably his distinction between conceptual and experimental innovation, and also Lehman’s (1953) seminal study of t...