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C&C '07: Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCHI conference on Creativity & cognition

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Preliminary findings suggest that the creativity of conceptual inventions based upon items taken from physical user interface kits, as assessed by independent judges, may be affected by the categorical level given to participants at the task outset. However this effect is only seen when judges assess the inventions using an ordering task rather than the commonly adopted originality/practicality model of creativity. Further research into the nature of this phenomenon and the effects of different judging paradigms is underway.

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Creativity and categorisation
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Philosophical/theoretical foundations of artificial intelligence
      1. Cognitive science
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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C&C '07: Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCHI conference on Creativity & cognition

June 2007

330 pages

ISBN:9781595937124

DOI:10.1145/1254960

General Chair:
Ben Shneiderman
University of Maryland
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Program Chairs:
Gerhard Fischer
University of Colorado, Boulder
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Elisa Giaccardi
University of Colorado, Boulder
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Mike Eisenberg
University of Colorado, Boulder

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