We introduce two descriptive models for evaluating creative software; the FACE model, which describes creative acts performed by software in terms of tuples of generative acts, and the IDEA model, which describes how such creative acts can have an impact upon an audience. We show how these models have been inspired both by ideas in the psychology of creativity and by an analysis of acts of huma...

This research examines an entertainment website, Jezebel: Celebrity, Sex, Fashion for Women (www.jezebel.com), to understand how the site’s use of a virtual newsroom and computer mediated communication influences organizational dynamics and culture. By employing a case study of Jezebel.com, this research used in-depth interviews and observations to examine the role of instant messaging (IM) in ...

In this article the authors argue that a new category of creativity, called “mini-c” creativity, is needed to advance creativity theory and research. Mini-c creativity differs from little-c (everyday) or Big-C (eminent) creativity as it refers to the creative processes involved in the construction of personal knowledge and understanding. The authors discuss how the category of mini-c creativity...

In this paper we argue that there is a trade-off between generativity and originality in online communities that support open collaboration. We build on foundational theoretical work in peer production to formulate and test a series of hypotheses suggesting that the generativity of creative works is associated with moderate complexity, prominent authors, and cumulativeness. We also formulate an...

In this paper we argue that there is a trade-off between generativity and originality in online communities that support open collaboration. We build on foundational theoretical work in peer production to formulate and test a series of hypotheses suggesting that the generativity of creative works is associated with moderate complexity, prominent authors, and cumulativeness. We also formulate an...

The paper presents a novel approach to collaborative design of educational software with students, one that asks the participants for the formation and use of fictional characters – design alter egos – as a means towards eliciting requirements and design ideas. In order to evaluate the suggested approach, we conducted 12 collaborative design sessions with the participation of 54 undergraduate u...

This research examines an entertainment website, Jezebel.com, to understand how the site’s use of a virtual newsroom and computer-mediated communication influences organizational dynamics and culture. By employing a case study of Jezebel, this research utilized in-depth interviews and observations to examine the role of instant messaging (IM) in organizing work and shaping organizational cultur...

This paper surveys some of the central issues in the philosophy of creativity and argues that an adequate treatment of them requires attention to the rich psychological literature on creativity. It also shows that the range of interesting philosophical questions to be raised about creativity is much wider than concerns its role in art. Issues covered include the definition of ‘creativity’; the ...

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Introduction With the exception of research carried out by Bamberger (1977, 1978, 1991), studies of the music composition process have used predominantly positivistic approaches, in experimental, laboratory, non real-world scenarios for data collection. The aim of this paper is to describe the cognitive processes, in real-time, of a composer in the act of writing music by assuming an alternativ...