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Creativity support: information discovery and exploratory search

Published:23 July 2007Publication History

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We are developing support for creativity in learning through information discovery and exploratory search. Users engage in creative tasks, such as inventing new products and services. The system supports evolving information needs. It gathers and presents relevant information visually using images and text. Users are able to search, browse, and explore results from multiple queries and interact with information elements by manipulating design and expressing interest. A field study was conducted to evaluate the system in an undergraduate class. The results demonstrated the efficacy of our system for developing creative ideas. Exposure to diverse information in visual and interactive forms is shown to support students engaged in invention tasks.

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      SIGIR '07: Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
      July 2007
      946 pages
      ISBN:9781595935977
      DOI:10.1145/1277741

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      • Published: 23 July 2007

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