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SketchTivity: Improving Creativity by Learning Sketching with an Intelligent Tutoring System

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C&C '17: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition

Pages 477 - 483

https://doi.org/10.1145/3059454.3078695

Published: 22 June 2017 Publication History

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Sketching is a skill closely tied to creativity and a powerful tool for exploring and expressing ideas and becoming a more well-rounded communicator. Conventional sketching instruction employs traditional mediums such as pen and paper in studio environments to convey these fundamentals to students. However, this approach limits the bandwidth and capability of instructors to give timely and individualized feedback, and students often struggle with low self-efficacy and motivation. An intelligent tutoring system can leverage sketching pedagogy to give students personalized feedback outside of classroom hours, which can potentially improve self-efficacy, motivation, and creativity in the students. Additionally, the inclusion of games and gamified lessons can offer a more engaging and motivating experience for them. This research is aimed at developing intelligent interactive lessons, challenges, and games that teach sketching fundamentals while evaluating their effectiveness in terms of improved sketching ability in the students, increased self-efficacy with respect to sketching ability and creativity, motivation to practice sketching, and idea generation capability. Ongoing work will be focused on developing creative challenges and measuring effects of the system on creative self-efficacy and idea generation in its users.

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SketchTivity: Improving Creativity by Learning Sketching with an Intelligent Tutoring System
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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