Creativity Support in Authoring and Backtracking

Brad Myers, Steve Oney, YoungSeok Yoon, and Joel Brandt

CHI 2013 Workshop on Evaluation Methods for Creativity Support Environments 2013

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Abstract

The “Natural Programming” group has been working for 15 years on making it easier for all kinds of programmers to be creative when writing software. Recently, one focus has been enabling “end-user programmers” (EUPs) such as interaction designers to more easily author interactive behaviors for the web. In a separate project, we are adding features to a code editor to support “backtracking” — undoing operations to partially or fully restore the code to a previous state — since creative exploration usually involves both moving forward to new designs and going backwards to retract some or all of the design that is not desired. In all of these projects, we seek to measure both the usability of our tools, and their effectiveness at fostering creativity.

Cite this paper (BibTeX)

@inproceedings{myers2013creativity,
  author    = {Myers, Brad and Oney, Steve and Yoon, YoungSeok and Brandt, Joel},
  title     = {Creativity Support in Authoring and Backtracking},
  booktitle = {CHI 2013 Workshop on Evaluation Methods for Creativity Support Environments},
  year      = {2013}
}