Mapping the Landscape of Creativity Support Tools in HCI

TY - GEN

T1 - Mapping the Landscape of Creativity Support Tools in HCI

AU - Frich Pedersen, Jonas

AU - Macdonald Vermeulen, Lindsay

AU - Remy, Christian

AU - Biskjaer, Michael Mose

AU - Dalsgaard, Peter

PY - 2019

Y1 - 2019

N2 - Creativity Support Tools (CSTs) play a fundamental role in the study of creativity in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Even so, there is no consensus definition of the term ‘CST’ in HCI, and in most studies, CSTs have been construed as one- off exploratory prototypes, typically built by the researchers themselves. This makes it difficult to clearly demarcate CST research, but also to compare findings across studies, which impedes advancement in digital creativity as a growing field of research. Based on a literature review of 143 papers from the ACM Digital Library (1999-2018), we contribute a first overview of the key characteristics of CSTs developed by the HCI community. Moreover, we propose a tentative definition of a CST to help strengthen knowledge sharing across CST studies. We end by discussing our study’s implications for future HCI research on CSTs and digital creativity.

AB - Creativity Support Tools (CSTs) play a fundamental role in the study of creativity in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Even so, there is no consensus definition of the term ‘CST’ in HCI, and in most studies, CSTs have been construed as one- off exploratory prototypes, typically built by the researchers themselves. This makes it difficult to clearly demarcate CST research, but also to compare findings across studies, which impedes advancement in digital creativity as a growing field of research. Based on a literature review of 143 papers from the ACM Digital Library (1999-2018), we contribute a first overview of the key characteristics of CSTs developed by the HCI community. Moreover, we propose a tentative definition of a CST to help strengthen knowledge sharing across CST studies. We end by discussing our study’s implications for future HCI research on CSTs and digital creativity.

KW - Creativity Support Tools (CSTs)

KW - creativity

KW - meta-analysis

KW - literature review

KW - Creativity Support Tools (CSTs)

KW - creativity

KW - meta-analysis

KW - literature review

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85067595928&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1145/3290605.3300619

DO - 10.1145/3290605.3300619

M3 - Article in proceedings

SN - 978-1-4503-5970-2

BT - Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'19)

PB - Association for Computing Machinery

CY - New York

T2 - The 2019 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'19)

Y2 - 4 May 2019 through 9 May 2019

ER -