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The importance of creativity support tools for designers has been recognized in human computer interaction community for some time. However, there is limited research on tools specifically targeted on novice end-user designers in participatory design and innovation contexts. The creativity support needs of such designers are atypical, as well as multifold, often not fully addressed by ordinary tools built for professional designers. To cater to the full spectrum of these requirement such as domain, design, feasibility and scope knowledge, as well as creativity and divergence triggers, the authors propose blending multiple tool forms into a single polymorphic tool. Each part of the polymorphic tool shall base upon a subset of user requirements identified via end-user population research and user modelling. The authors tested the proposition in a series of participatory ideation and participatory evaluation workshops. First, the authors developed three tools, two polymorphic and one regular, and applied each tool to a distinct user group in a separate participatory ideation workshop. The workshops had 30, 23, and 26 participants respectively, and the creative output of each group was collected. A series of participatory evaluation workshops with 58 distinct participants followed who evaluated creative output. The analysis of evaluation data showed statistical superiority of polymorphic tools over regular tool. Based on these findings, the authors recommend developing polymorphic creativity support tools tailored to the needs of respective end-user population when working in participatory design and innovation context.
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In this work, the terms design aids and creativity support tools are used interchangeably.
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Hassan, M.M., Choudhry, I.A., Tukiainen, M., Qureshi, A.N. (2023). Experimenting with Polymorphic Creativity Support Tools to Support Innovation in Participatory Ideation. In: Idrissi, A. (eds) Modern Artificial Intelligence and Data Science. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 1102. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33309-5_26
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