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Characterizing creativity in visualization design can lead to the design of more expressive representations and visualization authoring tools that prioritize human creativity. In this paper, we examine how creativity manifests itself in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Tianwei Ma , Zinat Ara , Safwat Ali Khan , Fanny Chevalier , Niklas Elmqvist , Naimul Hoque

Creativity is the ability to produce novel, useful, and surprising ideas, and has been widely studied as a crucial aspect of human cognition. Machine creativity on the other hand has been a long-standing challenge. With the rise of advanced…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Mete Ismayilzada , Debjit Paul , Antoine Bosselut , Lonneke van der Plas

Key doctrines, including novelty (patent), originality (copyright), and distinctiveness (trademark), turn on a shared empirical question: whether a body of work is meaningfully distinct from a relevant reference class. Yet analyses…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Anirban Mukherjee , Hannah Hanwen Chang

The need for innovative ideas in data visualisation drives us to explore new creative approaches. Combining two or more creative words, particularly those that contradict each other, can positively impact the creative process, sparking…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Aron E. Owen , Jonathan C. Roberts

The rapid advancement in machine learning has led to a surge in automatic data generation, making it increasingly challenging to differentiate between naturally or human-generated data and machine-generated data. Despite these advancements,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Mohamad Elzohbi , Richard Zhao

This paper considers how interactions with AI algorithms can boost human creative thought. We employ a psychological task that demonstrates limits on human creativity, namely semantic feature generation: given a concept name, respondents…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Ara Vartanian , Xiaoxi Sun , Yun-Shiuan Chuang , Siddharth Suresh , Xiaojin Zhu , Timothy T. Rogers

Visual blends combine elements from two distinct visual concepts into a single, integrated image, with the goal of conveying ideas through imaginative and often thought-provoking visuals. Communicating abstract concepts through visual…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Zhida Sun , Zhenyao Zhang , Yue Zhang , Min Lu , Dani Lischinski , Daniel Cohen-Or , Hui Huang

One of the most striking features of human cognition is the capacity to plan. Two aspects of human planning stand out: its efficiency and flexibility. Efficiency is especially impressive because plans must often be made in complex…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Mark K. Ho , David Abel , Carlos G. Correa , Michael L. Littman , Jonathan D. Cohen , Thomas L. Griffiths

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…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-03-04 Christian Kohls

The main deficiency of the algorithms running on digital computers nowadays is their inability to change themselves during the execution. In line with this, the paper introduces the so-called replicated algorithms, inspired by the concept…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Iztok Fister , Iztok Fister

Human behavior emerges from planning over elaborate decompositions of tasks into goals, subgoals, and low-level actions. How are these decompositions created and used? Here, we propose and evaluate a normative framework for task…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Carlos G. Correa , Mark K. Ho , Frederick Callaway , Nathaniel D. Daw , Thomas L. Griffiths

3D objects (artefacts) are made to fulfill functions. Designing an object often starts with defining a list of functionalities that it should provide, also known as functional requirements. Today, the design of 3D object models is still a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Mihai Andries , Atabak Dehban , José Santos-Victor

In fine art, especially painting, humans have mastered the skill to create unique visual experiences through composing a complex interplay between the content and style of an image. Thus far the algorithmic basis of this process is unknown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-03 Leon A. Gatys , Alexander S. Ecker , Matthias Bethge

The theory of computational complexity is used to underpin a recent model of neocortical sensory processing. We argue that encoding into reconstruction networks is appealing for communicating agents using Hebbian learning and working on…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Andras Lorincz

While the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) in programming has been extensively studied, there is limited understanding of how LLMs support collaborative work where creativity plays a central role. Software design, as a collaborative and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Victoria Jackson , Grischa Liebel , Rafael Prikladnicki , Andre van der Hoek

We report a summary of our interdisciplinary research project "Evolutionary Perspective on Collective Decision Making" that was conducted through close collaboration between computational, organizational and social scientists at Binghamton…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-29 Hiroki Sayama , Shelley D. Dionne

The research on the brain mechanism of creativity mainly has two aspects, one is the creative thinking process, and the other is the brain structure and functional connection characteristics of highly creative people. The billions of nerve…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-08-23 Tong Wang

We explore the intersection of human and machine creativity by generating sculptural objects through machine learning. This research raises questions about both the technical details of automatic art generation and the interaction between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Songwei Ge , Austin Dill , Eunsu Kang , Chun-Liang Li , Lingyao Zhang , Manzil Zaheer , Barnabas Poczos

Convergent thought is defined and measured in terms of the ability to perform on tasks where there is a single correct solution, and divergent thought is defined and measured in terms of the ability to generate multiple different solutions.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-07-09 Liane Gabora

Creativity is a complex phenomenon. When it comes to representing and assessing creativity, treating it as a single undifferentiated quantity would appear naive and underwhelming. In this work, we learn the \emph{first type-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Jiyeon Han , Ali Mahdavi-Amiri , Hao Zhang , Haedong Jeong