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Thursday, October 19, 2017

Paper: Wang and Nickerson (2017). A literature review on individual creativity support systems

Hodges' model can lay claim to being a creativity support system [CSS]. While I do not have evidence, the model presents a diversity of stimuli in its structure and the care - knowledge - domains. It follows then that from the outset it is a motivational primer on both affective and achievement counts. Immediately, there is the motivation provided by the blank space, viewed as one or four conceptual spaces to find an initial starting concept. Affective as users gravitate towards their chosen reflective and creative journey, and achievement priming as having a goal that is prompted by professional, interpersonal and educational goals. If there is a case of 'creativity block' then perhaps a group approach can be adopted? Hodges' model then becomes a collaborative creativity support system. With Hodges' model and no doubt the proposed CSSs the collaborative agents add their own affective and achievement priming, whether student-student; patient-student (supervised); or mentor-student.

With the important caveat that the studies identified do not include healthcare but many papers are general. The authors provoke many questions: "Creativity support systems, like other information systems, are most effective when they instantiate underlying theories..." (p.140). I have already posed this question - which is (as ever) compound. As per the review's general domain papers, is there an underlying theory for all of Hodges' model; or is there a need for a theory per care domain?

"The literature on individual creativity support systems has drawn from theories about design, human computer interaction, information systems, and creativity.. " (p.140). 
If 'design' can be complex, what of 'care design'? That is what we are about. This in turn impacts upon the other sources of theory above.

There is much to draw upon in Wang and Nickerson (2017) but finally on page 145:
"the authors did a survey to verify the notion that creative self-efficacy, individual knowledge and IT support affect individual creativity through mediating variables: individual absorptive capacity, exploration and exploitation." 
Creativity must contribute to literacy, Wang and Nickerson allude to a relationship, referring to self-efficacy above. This is what we are seeking in health literacy and self-care. An ability to explore and exploit available resources being a sign of autonomy and efficacy.

Table 3
A framework for designing individual creativity support systems.


Aspects Components Features to Support the Component
Motivation
Motivational
priming
Affective priming
Achievement priming
Creative Process
Process
completeness
Process control 
Modules to support each step in a complete
creative process
Allowing iteration and selection of steps
Divergent
thinking

Stimuli

Long term
memory

Working
memory

Creativity
techniques
Providing different levels of stimuli,
Providing stimuli dynamically
External long term memory, such as knowledge
base and case library;
Facilitating search
Supporting association,
Visualization,
Random combination
Facilitating the use of creativity techniques;
Computational creativity techniques
Convergent
thinking 
Comprehension
Decision 
 Labeling, classification, simulation
Criteria based comparison, Decision support



Table 4
The steps in a complete creative process.

Process Stage The Divergent Step The Convergent Step
Problem finding
Formulating problem presentations in various ways
Selecting the best ways to present the problem
Information finding
Collecting potentially relevant information
Selecting the most relevant information
Idea finding
Generating many ideas
Selecting the best ideas
Solution finding
Improving the selected ideas
Selecting the improved ideas and integrating them into a solution


Reference:
Wang, K., & Nickerson, J. (2017). A literature review on individual creativity support systems. Computers In Human Behavior, 74, 139-151. (tables p.145).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.04.035