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Random thinking, ordered doing: understanding group creative practice through repertory grid technique

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Shaun McWhinnie,

Shaleph J. O'Neill,

Louise ValentineAuthors Info & Claims

C&C '09: Proceedings of the seventh ACM conference on Creativity and cognition

Pages 137 - 146

https://doi.org/10.1145/1640233.1640256

Published: 26 October 2009 Publication History

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The aim of our work is to better understand the impact of interactive technology on the creative process. An important part of beginning this research is to understand how creative practitioners make sense of their own creative practice. This paper introduces work carried out using a kit based Repertory Grid Technique (RGT), to examine the conceptual constructs of a small group of creative practitioners in a workshop format. The results, although preliminary, identify a number of shared constructs that help us describe aspects of creative processes from the practitioners' point of view. This leads us to hypothesize about potential models of creativity that we can use in future research.

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Turner PTurner SDittmar AForbrig P(2011)My grandfather's iPodProceedings of the 29th Annual European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics10.1145/2074712.2074742(149-156)Online publication date: 24-Aug-2011
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Random thinking, ordered doing: understanding group creative practice through repertory grid technique
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software

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C&C '09: Proceedings of the seventh ACM conference on Creativity and cognition

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DOI:10.1145/1640233

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Turner PTurner S(2013)Emotional and aesthetic attachment to digital artefactsCognition, Technology and Work10.1007/s10111-012-0231-x15:4(403-414)Online publication date: 1-Nov-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s10111-012-0231-x
Turner PTurner SDittmar AForbrig P(2011)My grandfather's iPodProceedings of the 29th Annual European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics10.1145/2074712.2074742(149-156)Online publication date: 24-Aug-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2074712.2074742

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