This paper describes key issues underlying the design of a tutoring system that brainstorms with students in order to support qualitative problem solving. Cognitively oriented and socially oriented support are enabled by two technologies, namely heuristic-based feedback generation and community-datadriven social recommendation. Formal representations and corresponding automated reasoning proced...

This paper reports on one dimension of a longitudinal study that researched the impact on student creativity of a unique intervention program for elementary students. The intervention was based on the National Profile and Statement (Curriculum Corporation, 1994a, 1994b) for the curriculum area of Technology. The intervention program comprised project-based, collaborative and thematically-integr...

That alcohol provides a benefit to creative processes has long been assumed by popular culture, but to date has not been tested. The current experiment tested the effects of moderate alcohol intoxication on a common creative problem solving task, the Remote Associates Test (RAT). Individuals were brought to a blood alcohol content of approximately .075, and, after reaching peak intoxication, co...

The main objective of our research is to understand the role of problem formulation in creative design ideation. To that end, we have used the web-based testbed of the Problem Map (P-map) computational framework which represents designers’ problem formulation in terms of a series of state models, where each state consists of six types of entities in addition to relations within and between diff...

The ability to support students’ learning processes efficiently during web-tutored programming project course is a key factor to success. In order to enrich the supportive efforts we need to build specific environments to fulfill this requirement. One of the most interesting methods to be used in such environment are various problem-solving tools which help the student to solve relevant problem...

This paper describes our model for the production of a variety of creative solutions. This is allowed by the mind ability of divergent production, which was claimed by Guilford as responsible for the construction of creative solutions, in opposition to the use of convergent production to construct ordinary solutions. Besides this Guilford influence, our approach to creativity is also inspired i...