#hcid2012 - Tools & Technologies for Creativity & Innovation Dr Sara Jones, HCID

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1. Centre for HCI Design Centre for Creativity Tools and Technologies for Creativity and Innovation HCID 2012 April 12th, 2012 Sara Jones Centre for HCI Design and Centre for Creativity in Professional Practice City University London s.v.jones@city.ac.uk http://hcid.soi.city.ac.uk/people/Sarajones.html @svjaok
2. Centre for HCI Design Centre for Creativity Outline •  What are creativity and innovation? •  What can tools and technologies do to support creativity and innovation?
3. Centre for HCI Design Centre for Creativity What is the technology/tool/thing that most helps you, your team or your organisation to be creative or innovative? Why?
4. Centre for HCI Design Centre for Creativity Tools and techs do not offer a complete solution – but they can help!
5. Centre for HCI Design Centre for Creativity Some definitions Creativity Innovation Design
6. Centre for HCI Design Centre for Creativity
7. Centre for HCI Design Centre for Creativity Some other creative processes Poincare/Wallas 1926 CPS model 1963 IDEO 2001 Shneiderman 2000 Mess-finding Preparation Fact-finding Understand Collect Problem-finding Observe Incubation Relate Illumination Idea-finding Visualise Create Verification Solution-finding Evaluate Idea implementation Implement Donate
8. Centre for HCI Design Centre for Creativity What makes creativity work From Synecticsworld, Imagine, www.synecticsworld.com
9. Centre for HCI Design Centre for Creativity What stops creativity from working From Synecticsworld, Imagine, www.synecticsworld.com
10. Centre for HCI Design Centre for Creativity More things that block creativity From Synecticsworld, Imagine, www.synecticsworld.com
11. Centre for HCI Design Centre for Creativity The challenge…. is to ‘preserve appropriate elements of existing knowledge work [creative practice] while shaping new technologies and then integrating them into the workplace’ Shneiderman, 2000 let people carry on doing all the good stuff they’re doing, but better
12. Centre for HCI Design Centre for Creativity Some requirements for creativity support tools •  Ultimate ease of use – the tool should disappear •  Make it pleasurable and fun •  Give access to examples for inspiration •  Provide appropriate primitives for building new things •  Allow for sketching, experimentation and what if reasoning •  Allow for reflection •  Support many different styles, teams with different talents •  Allow development of shared representations •  Allow transitions from individual to group work and back again •  Allow open interchange between tools
13. Centre for HCI Design Centre for Creativity Lubart’s view of creativity support tools •  According to Lubart (2005), the computer has 4 potential roles in enhancing creativity: •  Nanny: monitoring progress, planning etc •  Pen-pal: facilitating networking, communication of ideas •  Colleague: eg generation of novel but relevant ideas when humans are ‘stuck’ •  Coach: providing information about potentially useful techniques and sources of inspiration
14. Centre for HCI Design Centre for Creativity Coaching tools
15. Centre for HCI Design Centre for Creativity IDEO method cards IDEO method cards advise on how and why to use many techniques for creative design eg affinity diagrams, collage, cultural probes Available on mobile devices
16. Centre for HCI Design Centre for Creativity Von Oech’s Creative Whack Pack Creative Whack Pack contains guidance on creative thinking strategies eg simplify, see the big picture, etc and how to apply them Available on mobile devices
17. Centre for HCI Design Centre for Creativity Thoughtoffice A comprehensive suite of tools including method guidance
18. Centre for HCI Design Centre for Creativity Nannies and pen-pals – organising and networking tools
19. Centre for HCI Design Centre for Creativity Freemind Free, Java-based mind mapping tool
20. Centre for HCI Design Centre for Creativity Mind Manager Comprehensive suite of tools Supported by Tony Buzan Supports sharing and integration with other tools Includes some coaching Available on mobile devices
21. Centre for HCI Design Centre for Creativity Linoit Online media sharing
22. Centre for HCI Design Centre for Creativity Creately Online drawing tool with sharing
23. Centre for HCI Design Centre for Creativity Twiddla Online whiteboard/annotation tool with sharing
24. Centre for HCI Design Centre for Creativity Pearltrees Online web resource sharing
25. Centre for HCI Design Centre for Creativity FacilitatePro Web meeting tool Structured around creative problem solving Support for brainstorming, voting, planning
26. Centre for HCI Design Centre for Creativity Halo High resolution telepresence Now integrated with mobile devices
27. Centre for HCI Design Centre for Creativity Colleagues – tools to help with the work
28. Centre for HCI Design Centre for Creativity Random word generator: supports many techniques eg de Bono, 2007 Random word generators
29. Centre for HCI Design Centre for Creativity ‘a knowledge map software tool for visual thinking’ from the Open University We have used it in constraint removal, to map out constraints, ideas and their pros and cons Compendium
30. Centre for HCI Design Centre for Creativity Combinformation Generation of text and images from given seed terms, from Texas A&M University We have used it for inspiration
31. Centre for HCI Design Centre for Creativity Creative Stickies Application developed at City for writing digital post-its on a Microsoft Surface •  Study 1: more ideas in creative workshops than with Creative Stickies •  Study 2: private preparation and more space yielded more ideas •  Study 3: but paper post-its still preferred Study 1 Study 2
32. Centre for HCI Design Centre for Creativity Creative Design Stations Work at City on using digital technologies in physical spaces To support creative design
33. Centre for HCI Design Centre for Creativity Carer Application developed at City to support creativity in the care of people with dementia •  Creative thinking from cases of good dementia care practice •  Creative thinking from cases of good practice in analogical domains – other worlds •  Creative thinking from creativity triggers generated from cases Centre for Creativity in Professional Practice
34. Centre for HCI Design Centre for Creativity Platforms for open innovation
35. Centre for HCI Design Centre for Creativity Challenge-driven innovation Example of challenge-driven open innovation from E.ON
36. Centre for HCI Design Centre for Creativity Open IDEO An open innovation platform Aimed at social innovation Can be used by members of the public
37. Centre for HCI Design Centre for Creativity So what tools are you actually using?
38. Centre for HCI Design Centre for Creativity Designers Toolkit survey http://blog.bestvendor.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/bv_designer_final.jpg
39. Centre for HCI Design Centre for Creativity Designers Toolkit survey - comments Centre for Creativity in Professional Practice
40. Centre for HCI Design Centre for Creativity Creativity is not just a set of skills - or a set of tools - it’s a state of mind
41. Centre for HCI Design Centre for Creativity Please get in touch! Sara Jones Centre for HCI Design and Centre for Creativity in Professional Practice City University London s.v.jones@city.ac.uk http://hcid.soi.city.ac.uk/people/Sarajones.html http://creativity.city.ac.uk @svjaok Take a look at our Masters in Innovation, Creativity and Leadership Masters in Human Centred Systems
42. Centre for HCI Design Centre for Creativity References •  Shneiderman, B., 2000, ‘Creating Creativity: User Interfaces for Supporting Innovation’, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, vol 7, no 1, pp114-138 •  Lubart, T, 2005, ‘How can computers be partners in the creative process’, Int J Human-Computer Studies 63, pp365-369