Twenty Years of Creativity Research in Human-Computer Interaction: Current State and Future Directions

TY - GEN

T1 - Twenty Years of Creativity Research in Human-Computer Interaction: Current State and Future Directions

AU - Frich Pedersen, Jonas

AU - Biskjaer, Michael Mose

AU - Dalsgaard, Peter

PY - 2018/6/1

Y1 - 2018/6/1

N2 - Creativity has been a growing topic in the ACM community since the 1990s; however, no clear overview of this trend has been offered. We present a thorough survey of 998 creativity-related publications in the ACM Digital Library collected using keyword search to determine prevailing approaches, topics, and characteristics of creativity-oriented Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research. A selected sample based on yearly citations yielded 221 publications, which were analyzed using constant comparison analysis. We found that HCI is almost exclusively responsible for creativity-oriented publications; they focus on collaborative creativity rather than individual creativity; there is a general lack of definition of the term 'creativity'; empirically based contributions are prevalent; and many publications focus on new tools, often developed by researchers. On this basis, we present three implications for future creativity-oriented HCI research: develop and employ clearer definitions of creativity; go beyond in-vitro studies of novel tools; and move toward interdisciplinary research collaborations.

AB - Creativity has been a growing topic in the ACM community since the 1990s; however, no clear overview of this trend has been offered. We present a thorough survey of 998 creativity-related publications in the ACM Digital Library collected using keyword search to determine prevailing approaches, topics, and characteristics of creativity-oriented Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research. A selected sample based on yearly citations yielded 221 publications, which were analyzed using constant comparison analysis. We found that HCI is almost exclusively responsible for creativity-oriented publications; they focus on collaborative creativity rather than individual creativity; there is a general lack of definition of the term 'creativity'; empirically based contributions are prevalent; and many publications focus on new tools, often developed by researchers. On this basis, we present three implications for future creativity-oriented HCI research: develop and employ clearer definitions of creativity; go beyond in-vitro studies of novel tools; and move toward interdisciplinary research collaborations.

KW - Creativity

KW - Creativity support tools

KW - HCI

KW - Literature review

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85054030845&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1145/3196709.3196732

DO - 10.1145/3196709.3196732

M3 - Article in proceedings

SN - 978-1-4503-5198-0

SP - 1235

EP - 1257

BT - DIS 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference

PB - Association for Computing Machinery

CY - USA

ER -