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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Creativity Research"”.
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Exploring design space representations for design creativity research and education
… concept of design spaces is employed in design creativity research and education. To do so, a literature review focussed on the design space concept both within the design discipline and beyond it. This provides a starting point to understand current approaches to creating and representing …
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Creative ideas for creativity research in marketing: Creativity connects, frees, and empowers
Creativity—is it simply a means to achieve innovation within companies? Creativity stands as one of the most important forces driving firm growth, particularly in the 21st century. Over the past five decades, the focus of creativity research has predominantly been on enhancing individual creative …
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Skills for Creativity in Graphic Design: Testing the relationship between visualisation, written comprehension, and graphic design creativity
… thesis explores the relationship between skills, creativity and domain. It is situated within an evolving topic of design creativity; an emerging field that interfaces between creativity research, which has often occurred in the field of psychology, and design research often associated with the …
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Skills for Creativity in Graphic Design: Testing the relationship between visualisation, written comprehension, and graphic design creativity
… thesis explores the relationship between skills, creativity and domain. It is situated within an evolving topic of design creativity; an emerging field that interfaces between creativity research, which has often occurred in the field of psychology, and design research often associated with the …
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Creativity in and out of the Workplace.
Creativity is argued to be essential to the long term survival of organisations, institutions and even nations. Understanding how to enhance and utilise human creativity has become an important goal for academics, governments and practitioners, consultants, trade unionists and managers. Critical to …
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Evaluating computational creativity: a standardised procedure for evaluating creative systems and its application
… has been accepted as standard for evaluating the creativity of a system in the field of computational creativity and the multi-faceted and subjective nature of creativity generates substantial definitional issues. Evaluative practice has developed a general lack of rigour and systematicity, …
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Creative Performer Agency in the Collaborative Compositional Process
… by recent developments across musicology and creativity research literature. The composer’s music is now regarded as the product of a collaborative network, influenced by all who come into contact with it—first and foremost the performer. Yet, the nature of the performer’s creative impact on …
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Developing an annotated guide for collaborative planning of choral concerts based on Sawyer's eight stages of the creative process
… prompts to help people access the benefits of creativity research in the collaborative process of programming choral concerts. To highlight the distinctive characteristics of choral music in ways that engage the audience, programmers can utilize the Eight Stages of the Creative Process as found …
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Fostering Creativity Through a Nonlinear Approach to Teaching Technology at Wood River Middle School
… of this thesis is to address the following research questions: 1) what is the current status of creativity research in a typical classroom, and 2) how does an instance of exemplary teaching serve to encourage creativity in a technology education setting? The first research question is …
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Systematically examining the effectiveness of creativity interventions on divergent thinking
… have investigated the effectiveness of creativity interventions, three primary concerns remain: dated research, inconsistent findings, and unclear strategy classifications. To address these gaps, this current study analyzed contemporary research examining the efficacy of creativity …
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I make, therefore I am: Agency, action, affordance, and the path to creative identity
… identities. The literature review charts creativity research from psychology, sociology, and anthropology. Transdisciplinary theories of creativity and identity are discussed, and the emerging theory of circuits of creative affordance is found to be a useful means for considering creative …
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The Drama Of Collaborative Creativity: A Rhetorical Analysis Of Hollywood Film Making-Of Documentaries
Current creativity research is dominated by attention to the individual, with increasingly less attention paid to creativity in its context, in groups, and in filmmaking as a collaboratively creative enterprise. This study answers the research call to explore filmmaking as an exemplar for …
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Cultivating Creativity in Aerospace Systems Engineering to Manage Complexity
… This present study examines how facilitating creativity in aerospace system development can serve as a potential strategy for managing complexity. Creativity is a kind of psychological process that integrates linear and nonlinear modes of thinking, and therefore systems engineering processes …
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Examining the factors influencing organizational creativity in professional sport organizations
… sport organizations enhance or hinder creativity for many reasons. For example, teams operate essentially in an oligarchy (Wolfe, Wright & Smart, 2006). Additionally, professional sport industry tend to be isomorphic (O’Brien & Slack, 2004), hyper-traditional (Wolfe et al., 2006), or a …
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Design for Learning Through a Complexity Perspective: A Board Game Redesign Approach to Enabling Learning Possibilities
… it. Drawing on insights from complexity research, particularly the notion of enabling constraints (Davis & Simmt, 2003), I explored the settings for supporting learners’ agency in pursuing their ideas and interests, while stimulating new possibilities of collective understanding and …
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An explorative study of creativity: assessment of design outcomes
This research study presents an investigation of creativity assessment in design education. Prompted by an anecdotal observation on how creativity is approached in design academia, this research showed that both from a practical and theoretical point of view, creativity is yet to be fully …
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The dynamic cognitive processes underlying creativity
Despite the growing importance of creativity and innovation at work, the abilities that allow people to develop new and useful ideas in the workplace remain unclear. Advances in research suggest that several core cognitive processes underlie creative thought, such as problem finding, information …
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Methodological investigations into design inspiration and fixation experiments
… affect the design process, and to translate the research findings into education and practice. Moreover, it raises questions about the reliability and effectiveness of the traditional experimental method. This thesis reports on a collection of studies that examine how design inspiration and …