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Creativity, i.e., the process of generating and developing fresh and original ideas or products that are useful or effective, is a valuable skill in a variety of domains. Creativity is called an essential 21st-century skill that should be…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Nasrin Shabani

Large Language Models (LLMs) are revolutionizing several areas of Artificial Intelligence. One of the most remarkable applications is creative writing, e.g., poetry or storytelling: the generated outputs are often of astonishing quality.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Giorgio Franceschelli , Mirco Musolesi

This is a case study of teaching 3D design and 3D printing in a project-based computing course for undergraduate math majors. This article discusses content organization, implementation, project grading, and includes a personal reflection.…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2022-12-16 Christopher R. H. Hanusa

Creativity of generative AI models has been a subject of scientific debate in the last years, without a conclusive answer. In this paper, we study creativity from a practical perspective and introduce quantitative measures that help the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Aditi Ramaswamy , Hana Chockler , Melane Navaratnarajah

Hallucinations in large language models (LLMs) are always seen as limitations. However, could they also be a source of creativity? This survey explores this possibility, suggesting that hallucinations may contribute to LLM application by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Xuhui Jiang , Yuxing Tian , Fengrui Hua , Chengjin Xu , Yuanzhuo Wang , Jian Guo

The word creativity originally described a concept from human psychology, but in the realm of computational creativity (CC), it has become much more. The question of what creativity means when it is part of a computational system might be…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Nadia M. Ady , Faun Rice

Assessing human creativity through visual outputs, such as drawings, plays a critical role in fields including psychology, education, and cognitive science. However, current assessment practices still rely heavily on expert-based subjective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Zihao Lin , Zhenshan Shi , Sasa Zhao , Hanwei Zhu , Lingyu Zhu , Baoliang Chen , Lei Mo

In order to solve today's complex problems in the world of software development, technical knowledge is no longer enough. Previous studies investigating and identifying non-technical skills of software engineers show that creative skills…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Wouter Groeneveld , Laurens Luyten , Joost Vennekens , Kris Aerts

This paper provides a framework for evaluating creativity in co-creative systems: those that involve computer programs collaborating with human users on creative tasks. We situate co-creative systems within a broader context of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Pegah Karimi , Kazjon Grace , Mary Lou Maher , Nicholas Davis

There are many philosophies and theories on what creativity is and how it works, but one popular idea is that of variations on a theme and intersection of concepts. This literature review explores philosophical proposals of how creativity…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-05-25 Rohan Agarwal

Creativity relates to the ability to generate novel and effective ideas in the areas of interest. How are such creative ideas generated? One possible mechanism that supports creative ideation and is gaining increased empirical attention is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Anna Wróblewska , Marceli Korbin , Yoed N. Kenett , Daniel Dan , Maria Ganzha , Marcin Paprzycki

As LLMs become increasingly prevalent, it is interesting to consider how ``creative'' these models can be. From cognitive science, creativity consists of at least two key characteristics: \emph{convergent} thinking (purposefulness to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Yining Lu , Dixuan Wang , Tianjian Li , Dongwei Jiang , Sanjeev Khudanpur , Meng Jiang , Daniel Khashabi

Promoting creativity is considered an important goal of education, but creativity is notoriously hard to measure.In this paper, we make the journey fromdefining a formal measure of creativity that is efficientlycomputable to applying the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Anastasia Kovalkov , Benjamin Paaßen , Avi Segal , Niels Pinkwart , Kobi Gal

Evaluating creativity is challenging, even for humans, not only because of its subjectivity but also because it involves complex cognitive processes. Inspired by work in marketing, we attempt to break down visual advertisement creativity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Zhaoyi Joey Hou , Adriana Kovashka , Xiang Lorraine Li

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for creative tasks such as literary translation. Yet translational creativity remains underexplored and is rarely evaluated at scale, while source-text comprehension is typically studied in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Ran Zhang , Steffen Eger , Arda Tezcan , Wei Zhao , Simone Paolo Ponzetto , Lieve Macken

Creativity is a critical skill that professional software engineers leverage to tackle difficult problems. In higher education, multiple efforts have been made to spark creative skills of engineering students. However, creativity is a vague…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Wouter Groeneveld , Laurens Luyten , Joost Vennekens , Kris Aerts

Empirical research in creative design deepens our theoretical understanding of design principles and perceptual effects, offering valuable guidance for innovating creation tools. However, how these empirical insights currently influence the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Leixian Shen , Leni Yang , Haotian Li , Yun Wang , Yuyu Luo , Huamin Qu

Computational creativity has contributed heavily to abstract art in modern era, allowing artists to create high quality, abstract two dimension (2D) arts with a high level of controllability and expressibility. However, even with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Yingtao Tian

Creativity is a deeply debated topic, as this concept is arguably quintessential to our humanity. Across different epochs, it has been infused with an extensive variety of meanings relevant to that era. Along these, the evolution of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Philippe Esling , Ninon Devis

Although explainable computational creativity seeks to create and sustain computational models of creativity that foster a collaboratively creative process through explainability, there remains little to no work in supporting designers when…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Michael Clemens