Creativity Support Tools: Accelerating Discovery and Innovation

Author: Ben Shneiderman
Year: 2007
Summary: This paper advocates for a shift in focus from creating autonomous creative machines to developing "Creativity Support Tools" that augment human creativity. Shneiderman outlines principles for designing tools that help users be more creative, such as supporting exploration, providing powerful search capabilities, and enabling collaboration. The goal is to empower users, not replace them.
Link: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1242511.1242512