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On the Role of Computers in Creativity-Support Systems

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Book cover Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems: Recent Trends, Advances and Solutions

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We report here on our experiences with designing computer-based creativity support systems over several years. In particular, we present the design of three different systems incorporating different mechanisms of creativity. One of them uses an idea proposed by Rodari to stimulate imagination of the children in writing a picture-based story. The second one is aimed to model creativity in legal reasoning, and the third one uses low-level perceptual similarities to stimulate creation of novel conceptual associations in unrelated pictures. We also introduce a fourth study, which explores the role of surface-level similarities in stimulating creative ideas. We discuss lessons learnt from these approaches, and address their implications for the question of how far creativity can be tamed by algorithmic approaches.

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Indurkhya, B. (2016). On the Role of Computers in Creativity-Support Systems. In: Skulimowski, A., Kacprzyk, J. (eds) Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems: Recent Trends, Advances and Solutions. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 364. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19090-7_17

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