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Our requirements for CST also provided a framework for evaluating CST (Warr, 2007). A list of heuristics for CST is as follows: Heuristic 1) Does the creativity support tool support the creation and dissemination of externalisations to support the phases of the creative process? Summary: Heuristics satisfied: Heuristics partially satisfied: Heuristics not satisfied: Heuristic 1.1) Does the creativity support tool support the creation of sketches? Satisfied? - Yes/No Description: Heuristic 1.2) Does the creativity support tool support the creation of annotations? Satisfied? - Yes/No Description: Heuristic 1.3) Does the creativity support tool support the creation of text? Satisfied? - Yes/No Description: Heuristic 1.4) Does the creativity support tool provide an accessible interaction space supporting users pointing interactions? Satisfied? - Yes/No Description: Heuristic 1.5) Does the creativity support tool provide an accessible interaction space supporting users gesture interactions? Satisfied? - Yes/No Description: Heuristic 1.6) Does the creativity support tool support the creation of new externalisations - divergent thinking? Satisfied? - Yes/No Description: Heuristic 1.7) Does the creativity support tool support the refinement of existing externalisations - convergent thinking? Satisfied? - Yes/No Description: Heuristic 1.8) Does the creativity support tool constrain the ways users externalise their ideas? Satisfied? - Yes/No Description: Heuristic 1.9) Does the creativity support tool provide users with an unobstructed solution space? Satisfied? - Yes/No Description: Heuristic 1.10) Does the creativity support tool allow its users to change the orientation and position of an externalisation and/or the creativity support tool? Satisfied? - Yes/No Description: Heuristic 1.11) Does the creativity support tool support the combination of previously generated ideas? Satisfied? - Yes/No Description: Heuristic 1.12) Does the creativity support tool support the storage and protection of externalisations created throughout the creative process? Satisfied? - Yes/No Description: Heuristic 1.13) Does the creativity support tool support the comparison of generated ideas? Satisfied? - Yes/No Description: Heuristic 2) Does the creativity support tool need to support the various group compositions of a group? Summary: Heuristics satisfied: Heuristics partially satisfied: Heuristics not satisfied: Heuristic 2.1 Does the creativity support tool provide personal interaction spaces to support individual creative activities? Satisfied? - Yes/No Description: Heuristic 2.2) Does the creativity support tool provide social interaction spaces to support sub-group activities? Satisfied? - Yes/No Description: Heuristic 2.3) Does the creativity support tool provide large interaction spaces to support group creative activities? Satisfied? - Yes/No Description: Heuristic 2.4) Does the creativity support tool support the transitions between individual, sub-group and group activities? Satisfied? - Yes/No Description: Heuristic 2.5) Does the creativity support tool support creative activities beyond the collaboratory? Satisfied? - Yes/No Description: Heuristic 3) Does the creativity support tool support the control of social influences? Summary: Heuristics satisfied: Heuristics partially satisfied: Heuristics not satisfied: Heuristic 3.1) Does the creativity support tool provide synchronous forms of interaction reducing the effects of production blocking? Satisfied? - Yes/No Description: Heuristic 3.2) Does the creativity support tool support multiple inputs? Satisfied? - Yes/No Description: Heuristic 3.3) Does the creativity support tool remove identification with one's ideas to reduce the effects of evaluation apprehension? Satisfied? - Yes/No Description: Heuristic 3.4) Does the creativity support tool provide group members with privacy, thus reducing the effects of evaluation apprehension and free-riding? Satisfied? - Yes/No Description: Heuristic 3.5) Does the creativity support tool make individuals accountable for their own productivity? Satisfied? - Yes/No Description: Overall analysis: Heuristics satisfied: Heuristics partially satisfied: Heuristics not satisfied: \end{quote} References: Warr, A. (2007). Understanding and Supporting Creativity in Design. PhD Thesis, University of Bath, UK. June, 2007. Last modified 23 July 2007 at 2:58 pm by andywarr |