A preliminary framework for description, analysis and comparison of creative systems

By Geraint A. Wiggins. Knowledge-Based Systems, 2006

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Empirically Studying Participatory Sense-Making in Abstract Drawing with a Co-Creative Cognitive Agent (2016, background): “Computational creativity is a field of artificial intelligence focused on developing agents that generate creative products autonomously [3,5,38,39].”
Computational Creativity: The Final Frontier? (2012, background): “The ﬁrst one such, the Creative Systems Framework [58, 59] is based on Boden’s approach, and contributes to that philosophy by showing how it can be simpliﬁed.”
Some Empirical Criteria for Attributing Creativity to a Computer Program (2007, background): “This might connect to the ideas of Wiggins (2006a), where a formalisation is given of the notion of a potentially creative program exploring a space of concepts.”
Designing Creative AI Partners with COFI: A Framework for Modeling Interaction in Human-AI Co-Creative Systems (2022, background): “Wiggins defined creative systems as "A collection of processes, natural or automatic, which are capable of achieving or simulating behavior which in humans would be deemed creative [156].”
Characterizing LLM scientific concept generation: A multi-dimensional measurement study (2026, unknown): “These issues parallel broader concerns in computational creativity assessment about the gap between operational measures and theoretical constructs [7,8].”