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Software is primarily developed for people by people and human factors must be studied in all software engineering phases. Creativity is the source to improvise solutions to problems for dominating complex systems such as software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-05-28 Daniel Graziotin

Recent years have witnessed increasing calls for computing researchers to grapple with the societal impacts of their work. Tools such as impact assessments have gained prominence as a method to uncover potential impacts, and a number of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Wesley Hanwen Deng , Solon Barocas , Jennifer Wortman Vaughan

Computational design is aimed at supporting or automating design processes using computational techniques. However, some classes of design tasks involve criteria that are difficult to handle only with computers. For example, visual design…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Yuki Koyama , Takeo Igarashi

Generative AI systems have been heralded as tools for augmenting human creativity and inspiring divergent thinking, though with little empirical evidence for these claims. This paper explores the effects of exposure to AI-generated images…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Samangi Wadinambiarachchi , Ryan M. Kelly , Saumya Pareek , Qiushi Zhou , Eduardo Velloso

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

This paper presents a grounded theory-analysis based on a qualitative study of professional interaction designers (n=20) with a focus on how they use tools to manage design ideas. Idea management can be understood as a subcategory of the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Nanna Inie , Peter Dalsgaard

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

The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) has fundamentally transformed creative work practices in the design industry. Existing studies have identified both opportunities and challenges for creative practitioners in their…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Nami Ogawa , Yuki Okafuji , Yuji Hatada , Jun Baba

Fashion recommendation is a key research field in computational fashion research and has attracted considerable interest in the computer vision, multimedia, and information retrieval communities in recent years. Due to the great demand for…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Yujuan Ding , Zhihui Lai , P. Y. Mok , Tat-Seng Chua

Creativity is a valuable human skill that has long been augmented through both analog and digital tools. Recent progress in generative AI, such as image generation, provides a disruptive technological solution to supporting human creativity…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Daniel Hove Paludan , Julie Fredsgård , Kasper Patrick Bährentz , Ilhan Aslan , Niels van Berkel

The importance of innovation in the world's economy, now undeniable, draws great attention to the need to improve organizations' creative potential. In the last 60 years, hundreds of books have been written on the subject and hundreds of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Sophie Morin , Jean-Marc Robert , Liane Gabora

Prior research has explored potential applications of video games in programming education to elicit computational thinking skills. However, existing approaches are often either too general, not taking into account the diversity of genres…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Giulio Barbero , Marcello A. Gómez-Maureira , Felienne F. J. Hermans

Creative coding is a rapidly expanding domain for both artistic expression and computational education. Numerous libraries and IDEs support creative coding, however there has been little consideration of how the environments themselves…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Andrew McNutt , Anton Outkine , Ravi Chugh

We examined the effectiveness of various human-AI collaboration designs on creative work. Through a human subjects experiment set in the context of creative writing, we found that while AI assistance improved productivity across all models,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Kartik Hosanagar , Daehwan Ahn

The emergence of the digital media and computational tools has widened the doors for creativity. The cutting edge in the digital arts and role of new technologies can be explored for the possible creativity. This gives an opportunity to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-02-10 Murtaza Hussain Shaikh

Learning to code, and more broadly, learning about computer science is a growing field of activity and research. Under the label of computational thinking, computational concepts are increasingly used as cognitive tools in many subject…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Hannah M. Dee , Jordi Freixenet , Xavier Cufi , Eduard Muntaner Perich , Valentina Poggioni , Marius Marian , Alfredo Milani

I intend to make a scientific contribution of my subjective experience as a single unit of self-described ``artist'' leveraging artificial intelligence as an assistive visual creation tool, in the hopes that it may provide some inspiration…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Jane Adams

Computation holds great potential for introducing new opportunities for creativity and exploration into the physics curriculum. At the University of Oslo we have begun development of a new class of assignment called computational essays to…

Physics Education · Physics 2022-06-29 Tor Ole B. Odden , Marcos D. Caballero

Divergent thinking in the ideation stage of creative problem-solving demands that individuals explore a broad design space. Yet this exploration rarely follows a neat, linear sequence; problem-solvers constantly shift among searching,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Yaqing Yang , Vikram Mohanty , Nikolas Martelaro , Aniket Kittur , Yan-Ying Chen , Matthew K. Hong

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been increasingly applied to creative domains, leading to the development of systems that collaborate with humans in design processes. In Graphic Design, integrating computational systems into co-creative…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Joana Rovira Martins , Pedro Martins , Ana Boavida