Creativity

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Creativity

• COSC 109
• Computers Creativity

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Introduction

• Definitions of Creativity
• Questions about Creativity
• Creative Thinking Techniques
• Relationship with Computers

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Definitions for Creativity

• Originality, expression and imagination
• Innovative
• Ability to create novel and useful ideas or
  solutions to everyday problems

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Questions about Creativity

• Are we all creative?
• Which contributes most to creativity, nature or
  nurture?
• How can we increase our levels of creativity?
• Is the computer a tool or a medium in which we
  express creativity?
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vl0deXiIQSF0

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Creative Thinking Techniques

• Ask Questions
• Six Thinking Hats
• Brainstorming
• Storyboarding

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Ask Questions

• Why?
• Six Universal Questions
• What?
• Where?
• When?
• Why?
• Who?
• How?

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Six Thinking Hats

• Technique to increase creative thinking developed
  by Edward de Bono
• Hats represent directions to think
• White - Facts, figures and info
• Red - Intuition feelings
• Black - Judgement caution
• Yellow - Positive elements
• Green - Creative possibilities
• Blue - Overview processing
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vcjVxSk1MqO4

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Six Thinking Hats

• Book Information
• Title Six Thinking Hats
• Author Edward de Bono
• Publisher Little, Brown and Company
• Year Published 1985

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Brainstorming

• Recording ALL solution ideas without judgment or
  ridicule
• Open environment for exploration of any thought
  or idea prior to application of constraints
• Creates a chain reaction of ideas

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Storyboarding

• Developed by Walt Disney his staff 1928
• Popular management tool
• Spreading out thoughts and ideas of others on a
  wall for evaluation and ease of use
• Interconnections of ideas becomes obvious
• Parts/units become part of an overall story

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Final Thoughts

• TRUE Creativity and Innovation consists of
• SEEING what everyone else has seen
• THINKING what no one else has thought, and
• DOING what no one else has dared!
• Invention is 99 perspiration and 1 inspiration
• (Thomas Alva Edison)