Creativity and Social Interactions

Computational Social Creativity

This article reviews the development of computational models of creativity where social interactions are central. We refer to this area as computational social creativity. Its context is described, including the broader study of creativity, the computational modeling of other social phenomena, and computational models of individual creativity. Computational modeling has been applied to a number...

Creativity in Evolution: Individuals, Interactions and Environments

This chapter addresses the nature of open-ended evolutionary processes, and the related, but more subtle, issue of how fundamental novelty (i.e. creativity) can arise in such processes. A number of existing artificial evolutionary systems, such as Tierra (Ray, 1991), are analysed in this context, but it is found that the theoretical grounding upon which they are based does not usually consider ...

Social Consideration in the Creativity: Resource Orientation

Elementary Social Interactions and Their Effects on Creativity: A Computational Simulation

This paper presents a multi-agent computational simulation of the effects on creativity of designers' simple social interactions with both other designers and consumers. This model is based on ideas from situated cognition and uses indirect observation to produce potential changes to the knowledge that each designer and consumer uses to perform their activities. These changes result in global, ...

Supporting Social Creativity: Promises and Pitfalls

In our research we are developing and assessing conceptual and technological frameworks for understanding, supporting, and enhancing social creativity by democratizing design. We exploit the opportunities and explore the challenges of the fundamental transformational shift from an industrialized information economy (specialized in producing finished goods to be consumed passively) to a networke...