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BRINGING STIMULATED IDEATION IN A WEB ENVIRONMENT: STUDENTS’ EVALUATIONS OF A BASIC SOFTWARE RELEASE
Yuri Borgianni, Valentina Lenarduzzi, Federico Rotini, Davide Taibi
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Year:
2018
Editor:
Elies Dekoninck, Andrew Wodehouse, Chris Snider, Georgi Georgiev, Gaetano Cascini
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ICDC
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POSTER 2: SHORT PRESENTATIONS
Page(s):
411-418
ISBN:
9781912254071
Abstract:
Previous studies have demonstrated that creative design activities benefit from stimuli and that textual prompts might extend the exploration of the design space. However, the number of stimuli to conduct a wide exploration is large and the support of an ICT platform results necessary to manage a creative task effectively because of the presumably large number of generated ideas. Within a project named Startled, a very simple first release of a web application has been developed that supports ideation activities by means of stimuli. Dozens of students enrolled in different courses and Universities have tested the platform and answered a questionnaire, which aimed to elucidate their self-efficacy, perceived workload, ease of use and utility of the present version of the web application. The outcomes show, beyond few differences between students with diverse backgrounds, a majority of neutral and slightly positive answers. The results are not fully satisfying and the authors intend to make the ICT-supported creative tool more guided, user-friendly and intuitive.
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