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Immersion in a creative task can be an intimate experience. It can feel like a mystery: intangible, inexplicable, and beyond the reach of science. However, science is making exciting headway into understanding creativity. While the mind of…

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

A coherent mathematical overview of computation and its generalisations is described. This conceptual framework is sufficient to comfortably host a wide range of contemporary thinking on embodied computation and its models.

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-03-12 S. Barry Cooper

In this paper, we will argue that if we want to understand the function of the brain (or the control in the case of robots), we must understand how the brain is embedded into the physical system, and how the organism interacts with the real…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-02-03 Matej Hoffmann , Rolf Pfeifer

The introduction of new tools in people's workflow has always been promotive of new creative paths. This paper discusses the impact of using computational tools in the performance of creative tasks, especially focusing on graphic design.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Daniel Lopes , Jéssica Parente , Pedro Silva , Licínio Roque , Penousal machado

Evidence is growing for the theory of embodied cognition, which posits that action and perception co-determine each other, forming an action-perception loop. This suggests that we humans somehow participate in what we perceive. So, how can…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2024-09-30 John Realpe-Gómez

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

Co-design is essential for grounding embodied artificial intelligence (AI) systems in real-world contexts, especially high-stakes domains such as healthcare. While prior work has explored multidisciplinary collaboration, iterative…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yuanchen Bai , Ruixiang Han , Niti Parikh , Wendy Ju , Angelique Taylor

Can we develop a computer algorithm that assesses the creativity of a painting given its context within art history? This paper proposes a novel computational framework for assessing the creativity of creative products, such as paintings,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-07-31 Ahmed Elgammal , Babak Saleh

AI-based creativity support tools (CSTs) are evaluated through domain-specific metrics, limiting cross-domain comparison of creative processes. Embedding-based protocol analysis offers a potential domain-agnostic analytical layer. However,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Seung Won Lee , Semin Jin , Kyung Hoon Hyun

One of the defining characteristics of human creativity is the ability to make conceptual leaps, creating something surprising from typical knowledge. In comparison, deep neural networks often struggle to handle cases outside of their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Matthew Guzdial , Mark O. Riedl

As immersive technologies evolve, immersive computational notebooks offer new opportunities for interacting with code, data, and outputs. However, scaling these environments remains a challenge, particularly when analysts manually arrange…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Sungwon In , Eric Krokos , Kirsten Whitley , Chris North , Yalong Yang

Embodiment has recently enjoyed renewed consideration as a means to amplify the faculties of smart machines. Proponents of embodiment seem to imply that optimizing for movement in physical space promotes something more than the acquisition…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Shawn L. Beaulieu , Sam Kriegman

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

A large body of compelling evidence has been accumulated demonstrating that embodiment - the agent's physical setup, including its shape, materials, sensors and actuators - is constitutive for any form of cognition and as a consequence,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Matej Hoffmann , Rolf Pfeifer

Computational feasibility is a widespread concern that guides the framing and modeling of biological and artificial intelligence. The specification of cognitive system capacities is often shaped by unexamined intuitive assumptions about the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Federico Adolfi , Todd Wareham , Iris van Rooij

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

While the potential of deep learning (DL) for automating simple tasks is already well explored, recent research has started investigating the use of deep learning for creative design, both for complete artifact creation and supporting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Marcus Basalla , Johannes Schneider , Jan vom Brocke

In conceptual modeling (CM), humans apply abstraction to represent excerpts of reality for means of understanding and communication, and processing by machines. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is applied to vast amounts of data to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Dominik Bork , Syed Juned Ali , Ben Roelens

Artificial intelligence has demonstrated remarkable capability in predicting scientific properties, yet scientific discovery remains an inherently physical, long-horizon pursuit governed by experimental cycles. Most current computational…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Xiang Zhuang , Chenyi Zhou , Kehua Feng , Zhihui Zhu , Yunfan Gao , Yijie Zhong , Yichi Zhang , Junjie Huang , Keyan Ding , Lei Bai , Haofen Wang , Qiang Zhang , Huajun Chen

Creativity, defined as the tendency to generate or recognize new ideas or alternatives and to make connections between seemingly unrelated phenomena, is too vast a horizon to be summed up in such a simple sentence. The extreme abstractness…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-02-28 Souparno Roy , Archi Banerjee , Ranjan Sengupta , Dipak Ghosh