Creativity factor evaluation

• DOI: 10.1145/1640233.1640255
• Publication Date: 2009-10-27T13:27:28Z
• Authors: Erin A. Carroll; Celine Latulipe; Richard Fung; Michael Terry
• Keywords: 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; 02 engineering and technology

We present a new survey metric, the Creativity Support Index (CSI) that is designed to help researchers and designers evaluate the level of creativity support provided by various systems or interfaces. We initially employed a top-down literature-based approach to develop a beta version of the Creativity Support Index (Beta CSI). We discuss our usage of the Beta CSI in three different studies and what we learned from those deployments. We also present the results from an extensive creativity vocabulary study (n=300), which revealed a set of orthogonal creativity factors. This led to the current version of the CSI presented in this paper. Initial results from these formative evaluations suggest the value of this tool in assessing and comparing creativity support tools at points in time and longitudinally.