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

Shaun McWhinnie; Shaleph J. O'Neill; Louise Valentine

doi:10.1145/1640233.1640256

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

Shaun McWhinnie, Shaleph J. O'Neill, Louise Valentine

School of Textiles & Design

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	C&C '09: Proceedings of the seventh ACM conference on Creativity and cognition
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	137-146
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9781605584034
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1640233.1640256
Publication status	Published - 26 Oct 2009
Event	7th ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition 2009 - Berkeley, United States Duration: 27 Oct 2009 → 30 Oct 2009

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Conference	7th ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition 2009
Abbreviated title	C&C 2009
Country/Territory	United States
City	Berkeley
Period	27/10/09 → 30/10/09

Keywords

creative process
interactive design
practice

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Artificial Intelligence
Software
Computer Science Applications

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McWhinnie, S, O'Neill, SJ & Valentine, L 2009, Random thinking, ordered doing: Understanding group creative practice through repertory grid technique. in C&C '09: Proceedings of the seventh ACM conference on Creativity and cognition. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 137-146, 7th ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition 2009, Berkeley, United States, 27/10/09. https://doi.org/10.1145/1640233.1640256

Random thinking, ordered doing: Understanding group creative practice through repertory grid technique. / McWhinnie, Shaun; O'Neill, Shaleph J.; Valentine, Louise.
C&C '09: Proceedings of the seventh ACM conference on Creativity and cognition. Association for Computing Machinery, 2009. p. 137-146.

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