Creativity and categorisation

  • Authors:
  • Ben Short

  • Affiliations:
  • Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kngdm

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCHI conference on Creativity & cognition
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

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.