The Creative Mind

Requirements Engineering as Creative Problem Solving: A Research Agenda for Idea Finding

“…Boden [3] distinguishes historically creativity, which creates something novel to person-kind, from psychological creativity that is new to the person but not to others. Suwa [58] refined this distinction by introducing situated creativity, in which a designer or reasoner has an idea for a specific task novel in that particular situation or domain.…”

Creative primary schools: developing and maintaining pedagogy for creativity

“…everyday creativity) to big c (i.e. paradigm-shifting creativity) reflects distinctions between big and little 'c' (Craft, 2000(Craft, , 2001, 'personal' and 'historical' creativity (Boden, 2004) 'mini-c' creativity (intrapersonal meaning-making), 'little c' and 'big c' (Beghetto and Kaufman 2007).…”

A Blackboard System for Generating Poetry

“…However, the quality measures for atypical outputs show that, even though some of them cannot be considered as typical representatives of their genre (poetry), a few of them are still considered interesting. According to Margaret Boden [3], such examples have a higher potential for creativity. Nonetheless, the evaluation needs to be repeated by a larger group of independent judges on a bigger set of generated poems to make a better approximation.…”

“…The evaluation of the system's outputs according to the empirical criteria proposed by Graeme Ritchie [39] indicates that, even though some of the generated poems do not satisfy typicality, others qualify as high-quality artifacts. According to Margaret Boden [3], such atypical high-valued outputs are a promising indication for the creativity potential of the system. However, the evaluation needs to be repeated by an expert group of objective judges to confirm the results.…”