Creativity is an important issue in the world of collaboration and it is widely accepted that techniques of creativity can energize participants and improve effectiveness of meetings. Specifically these techniques have been applied to ‘creative problem solving’. This paper analyses why it can be difficult to be creative in conventional meetings and. describes some current techniques for encoura...

This paper is an attempt to present a formal coherent framework for creative visual thinking. First, fundamentals of creativity and creative thought are discussed. Then designer’s dialogue with graphical outputs based on the constructive perception is analyzed. Constructive perception is defined as a composition of design actions combining normal seeing with visual imagination. The proposed fra...

Flexibility of thought is theorized to play a critical role in the ability of high creative individuals to generate novel and innovative ideas. However, this has been examined only through indirect behavioral measures. Here we use network percolation analysis (removal of links in a network whose strength is below an increasing threshold) to computationally examine the robustness of the semantic...

This paper reviews recent fi ndings about three skin penetration pathways (including a “polar pathway”) and four types of penetration enhancers (enzymes, vesicular systems, ceramides and chemical enhancers). This article will review possible ways for compounds to penetrate the skin and interact with it. Four families of enhancers will be discussed, along with their possible mechanisms of action...

This paper begins by briefly looking at two of the dominant perspectives on computational creativity; focusing on the creative artefacts and the creative processes respectively. We briefly describe two projects; one focused on (artistic) creative artefacts the other on a (scientific) creative process, to highlight some similarities and differences in approach. We then look at a 2dimensional mod...

K E Y W O R D S : cognition, creative process

This short paper presents a collection of after-the-event reactions raised by attending the 4th International Joint Workshop on Computational Creativity (Cardoso & Wiggins, 2007). Not currently actively working in computational creativity myself, and not having attended any of these workshops recently, I viewed these presentations as an “outsider”, despite being a member of the Program Committe...

We report on a week-long celebration of Computational Creativity research and practice in a gallery in Paris, France. The festival was called You Can’t Know my Mind, and was intended to introduce to the public the idea that researchers such as ourselves are writing software to be surprisingly unpredictable and creative in nature. The festival included a traditional art exhibition with a verniss...

1.2 ISARs and the Nature of Creativity There are many different perspectives on creativity. Theories span epistemological, artistic and social science venues. For our purposes here, let us adapt a theory about creativity that combines two generally acceptable theories: That creativity is the amusing, serendipitous or profound combination of ideas. Thus, an ISAR with the purpose of eliciting cre...

We examined the association of creativity with creative personality, domain expertise, non-controlling supervision, and organizational learning culture, as well as cross-level interactions in R&D organizations. Using HLM, domain expertise and non-controlling supervision were found to be positively associated with creativity. Practical implications and recommendations for further research are pr...