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Tools and Technologies for Creativity and Innovation
HCID 2012April 12th, 2012
Sara JonesCentre for HCI Design and Centre for Creativity in Professional PracticeCity University London
[email protected]://hcid.soi.city.ac.uk/people/Sarajones.html@svjaok
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Outline
• What are creativity and innovation?
• What can tools and technologies do to support creativity and innovation?
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What is the technology/tool/thing that most helps you, your team or your organisation to be
creative or innovative?
Why?
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Tools and techs do not offer a complete solution
– but they can help!
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Some definitions
Creativity Innovation
Design
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Some other creative processesPoincare/Wallas1926
CPS model1963
IDEO2001
Shneiderman2000
Mess-finding
Preparation Fact-finding Understand Collect
Problem-finding Observe
Incubation
Relate
Illumination Idea-finding Visualise Create
Verification Solution-finding Evaluate
Idea implementation Implement
Donate
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What makes creativity work
From Synecticsworld, Imagine, www.synecticsworld.com
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What stops creativity from working
From Synecticsworld, Imagine, www.synecticsworld.com
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More things that block creativity
From Synecticsworld, Imagine, www.synecticsworld.com
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The challenge….
is to ‘preserve appropriate elements of existing knowledge work [creative practice] while shaping new technologies and then integrating them into the workplace’
Shneiderman, 2000
let people carry on doing all the good stuff they’re doing, but better
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Some requirements for creativity support tools
• Ultimate ease of use – the tool should disappear• Make it pleasurable and fun
• Give access to examples for inspiration• Provide appropriate primitives for building new things• Allow for sketching, experimentation and what if reasoning• Allow for reflection
• Support many different styles, teams with different talents• Allow development of shared representations• Allow transitions from individual to group work and back again
• Allow open interchange between tools
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Lubart’s view of creativity support tools
• According to Lubart (2005), the computer has 4 potential roles in enhancing creativity:
• Nanny: monitoring progress, planning etc
• Pen-pal: facilitating networking, communication of ideas
• Colleague: eg generation of novel but relevant ideas when humans are ‘stuck’
• Coach: providing information about potentially useful techniques and sources of inspiration
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Coaching tools
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IDEO method cards
IDEO method cards advise on how and why to use many techniques for creative design eg affinity diagrams, collage, cultural probes
Available on mobile devices
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Von Oech’s Creative Whack PackCreative Whack Pack contains guidance on creative thinking strategies eg simplify, see the big picture, etc and how to apply them
Available on mobile devices
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ThoughtofficeA comprehensive suite of tools including method guidance
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Nannies and pen-pals – organising and networking tools
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FreemindFree, Java-based mind mapping tool
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Mind ManagerComprehensive suite of toolsSupported by Tony BuzanSupports sharing and integration with other toolsIncludes some coaching
Available on mobile devices
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LinoitOnline media sharing
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CreatelyOnline drawing tool with sharing
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TwiddlaOnline whiteboard/annotation tool with sharing
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PearltreesOnline web resource sharing
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FacilitateProWeb meeting toolStructured around creative problem solvingSupport for brainstorming, voting, planning
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HaloHigh resolution telepresenceNow integrated with mobile devices
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Colleagues – tools to help with the work
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Random word generator:supports many techniques eg de Bono, 2007
Random word generators
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‘a knowledge map software tool for visual thinking’ from the Open University
We have used it in constraint removal, to map out constraints, ideas and their pros and cons
Compendium
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Combinformation Generation of text and images from given seed terms, from Texas A&M UniversityWe have used it for inspiration
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Creative Stickies
Application developed at City for writing digital post-its on a Microsoft Surface• Study 1: more ideas in
creative workshops than with Creative Stickies
• Study 2: private preparation and more space yielded more ideas
• Study 3: but paper post-its still preferred Study 1
Study 2
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Creative Design StationsWork at City on using digitaltechnologies in physical spacesTo support creative design
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Carer
Application developed at City to support creativity in the care of people with dementia
• Creative thinking from cases of good dementia care practice
• Creative thinking from cases of good practice in analogical domains – other worlds
• Creative thinking from creativity triggers generated from cases
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Platforms for open innovation
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Challenge-driven innovationExample of challenge-driven open innovation from E.ON
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Open IDEO
An open innovation platformAimed at social innovationCan be used by members of the public
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So what tools are you actually using?
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Designers Toolkit survey
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Designers Toolkit survey - comments
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Creativity is not just a set of skills
- or a set of tools -
it’s a state of mind
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Please get in touch!Sara JonesCentre for HCI Design and Centre for Creativity in Professional PracticeCity University London
[email protected]://hcid.soi.city.ac.uk/people/Sarajones.htmlhttp://creativity.city.ac.uk@svjaok
Take a look at ourMasters in Innovation, Creativity and LeadershipMasters in Human Centred Systems
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References• Shneiderman, B., 2000, ‘Creating Creativity: User Interfaces for
Supporting Innovation’, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, vol 7, no 1, pp114-138
• Lubart, T, 2005, ‘How can computers be partners in the creative process’, Int J Human-Computer Studies 63, pp365-369