CREATIVITY SUPPORT TOOLS: Accelerating Discovery and Innovation.

The article discusses the role of software in enhancing individual creativity. Early software development focused on increasing economic productivity. A more recent and greater challenge is to produce "creativity support tools." Guiding principles for tool designers include an openness to exploratio...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 50; no. 12; pp. 20 - 29
Main Author: Shneiderman, Ben
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Dec2007
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          Professor, Department of Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory.
          Founding director, Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory.
          Member of Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland, College Park.
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