Mapping the Landscape of Creativity Support Tools in HCI
By Jonas Frich, Lindsay MacDonald Vermeulen, Christian Remy, M. Biskjaer, Peter Dalsgaard. International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2019
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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.
Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Mechanical Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction
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- Wordcraft: Story Writing With Large Language Models (2022, background): “Recent progress in deep generative neural networks has inspired substantial research into the question of how humans could collaborate with artificial agents powered by such networks, particularly in the creative process [18].”
- Framing Creative Work: Helping Novices Frame Better Problems through Interactive Scaffolding (2021, background): “Creativity support tools tend to focus on ideation and overlook problem finding and problem framing [19].”
- Nine Potential Pitfalls when Designing Human-AI Co-Creative Systems (2021, background): “In this view, these new interactive systems are hoped to realise key ideas from creativity support tools (CST, [10]) by leveraging AI”