Ubiquitous connectivity has brought about continuous interruptions to our thought processes and tasks. Many people have expressed the concern about potential deterioration of performance and productivity caused by the division of attention and fragmentation of thoughts associated with interruptions in the mass media and on the web. This research offers a novel insight into the effects of interr...

Current graphical user interfaces (GUI) are too cumbersome to use in the early stage of creative activities. Nested menus, arrays of buttons, and dialog boxes interfere with the flexible exploration. As a result, especially in visual task domain, most people rely on traditional pen and paper for the initial exploration, and move to the computers later. Our goal is to provide fluent user interfa...

Many creativity methods follow similar structures and principles. Design Patterns capture such invariants of proven good practices and discuss why, when and how creative thinking methods match various situations of collaboration. Moreover patterns connect different forms with each other. Once we understand the underlying structures of creative thinking processes we can facilitate digital tools ...