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...
| Published in: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 50; no. 12; pp. 20 - 29 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Dec2007
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