Promoting Creative Computing: origin, scope, research and applications

Abstract

Human creativity needs improvement in contemporary society. Due to the fast development and pervasive utilisation, computing has been a good servant to support creativity. It is not only utilised to facilitate creativity research, but also leveraged to assist creative activities in everyday life. Up to now, people have never stopped exploring the great potentials of computing to facilitate human creativity. Various new concepts of computing are currently emerging, especially creative computing that inspires a novel approach to improving human creativity. This paper presents a comprehensive review of Creative Computing, including its origin, scope, research and applications.

Keywords

• Creativity
• Computing
• Knowledge combination
• Creative Computing rules