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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

The importance of programming education has lead to dedicated educational programming environments, where users visually arrange block-based programming constructs that typically control graphical, interactive game-like programs. The…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Adina Deiner , Patric Feldmeier , Gordon Fraser , Sebastian Schweikl , Wengran Wang

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

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

Creativity is essential in engineering education, enabling students to develop innovative and practical solutions. However, assessing creativity remains challenging due to a lack of reliable, domain-specific tools. Traditional assessments…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2025-04-18 Zeynep G Akdemir-Beveridge , Arash Zaghi , Connie Syharat

Creativity in visualisation design is essential for designers and data scientists who need to present data in innovative ways. It is often achieved through sketching or drafting low-fidelity prototypes. However, judging this innovation is…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Aron E Owen , Jonathan C Roberts

Learners are often introduced to programming via dedicated languages such as Scratch, where block-based commands are assembled visually in order to control the interactions of graphical sprites. Automated testing of such programs is an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Katharina Götz , Patric Feldmeier , Gordon Fraser

Creativity is a complex, multi-faceted concept encompassing a variety of related aspects, abilities, properties and behaviours. If we wish to study creativity scientifically, then a tractable and well-articulated model of creativity is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-08 Anna Jordanous , Bill Keller

Computational creativity is an emerging branch of artificial intelligence that places computers in the center of the creative process. Broadly, creativity involves a generative step to produce many ideas and a selective step to determine…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2013-11-07 Lav R. Varshney , Florian Pinel , Kush R. Varshney , Debarun Bhattacharjya , Angela Schoergendorfer , Yi-Min Chee

Computational creativity is a subfield of AI focused on developing and studying creative systems. Few academic studies analysing the behaviour of creative agents from a theoretical viewpoint have been proposed. The proposed frameworks are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-04-15 Valerio Velardo , Mauro Vallati

Block-based programming environments like Scratch are widely used in introductory programming courses. They facilitate learning pivotal programming concepts by eliminating syntactical errors, but logical errors that break the desired…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Patric Feldmeier , Gordon Fraser , Ute Heuer , Florian Obermüller , Siegfried Steckenbiller

Human creativity is a multifaceted phenomenon with cognitive, attitudinal, intrapersonal interpersonal, practical, socio-cultural, economic, and environmental aspects. It can be challenging to incorporate creativity in classrooms. Teachers…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2013-10-14 Apara Ranjan , Liane Gabora

In the field of natural language processing, the rapid development of large language model (LLM) has attracted more and more attention. LLMs have shown a high level of creativity in various tasks, but the methods for assessing such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Yunpu Zhao , Rui Zhang , Wenyi Li , Di Huang , Jiaming Guo , Shaohui Peng , Yifan Hao , Yuanbo Wen , Xing Hu , Zidong Du , Qi Guo , Ling Li , Yunji Chen

Which factors influence the human assessment of creativity exhibited by a computational system is a core question of computational creativity (CC) research. Recently, the system's embodiment has been put forward as such a factor, but…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Simo Linkola , Christian Guckelsberger , Tomi Männistö , Anna Kantosalo

With the advancement of science and technology, the philosophy of creativity has undergone significant reinterpretation. This paper investigates contemporary research in the fields of psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and the philosophy…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Shengyi Xie

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

The co creativity community is making significant progress in developing more sophisticated and tailored systems to support and enhance human creativity. Design considerations from prior work can serve as a valuable and efficient foundation…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Saloni Singh , Koen Hindriks , Dirk Heylen , Kim Baraka

Today's software engineering (SE) complexities require a more diverse tool set going beyond technical expertise to be able to successfully tackle all challenges. Previous studies have indicated that creativity is a prime indicator for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Wouter Groeneveld

We present a framework for automating generative deep learning with a specific focus on artistic applications. The framework provides opportunities to hand over creative responsibilities to a generative system as targets for automation. For…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Sebastian Berns , Terence Broad , Christian Guckelsberger , Simon Colton

As Computational Thinking (CT) continues to permeate younger age groups in K-12 education, established CT platforms such as Scratch face challenges in catering to these younger learners, particularly those in the elementary school (ages…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Liuqing Chen , Shuhong Xiao , Yunnong Chen , Ruoyu Wu , Yaxuan Song , Lingyun Sun