Designing Creativity Support ToolsDr Shigeki Amitani Tuesday 10th April 2007 at 11am
AbstractThe goal of designing creativity support tools is to make more people more creative more often, enabling them to successfully cope with a wider variety of challenges and even straddle domains. Some tasks may be routine, such as doing computations or searching databases, while others require innovative leaps to identify associations, discover correlations, or recognise opportunities. In this seminar, I introduce fundamental concepts in the research field of creativity support and show examples of creativity support tools from my previous and current works. Short resumeDr. Shigeki Amitani is a Senior Research Assistant at the Creativity and Cognition Studios (CCS). His research interest in creativity support started in his master course at University of Tokyo. His concentration was on a supporting system for musical composition in the master course, and a method and a system for supporting the process of knowledge creation in his PhD work at University of Tokyo, Japan, in collaboration with a Japanese advertising company. Currently he is interested in visualising contextual relationships among information to stimulate human creative thinking. |