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Emerging Opportunities for Ambient Intelligence in Creativity Support Tools

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Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2016)

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The fundamental challenge in developing and evaluating creativity support tools is that we are not able to detect when a person is being creative. In this position paper we described our perspective of ambient intelligence in creativity support tools specially in the use of creative writing environments. Starting with the activity theory, we describe a simple analysis of writing sessions involving 100 students from a higher school, and recorded using a keystroke logging program called Inputlog and the program iTALC to support it. Specifically, we outline the writing activity goals and the interaction design goals.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the students who participated in this research, as well as the teachers and the institutional support from Escola da APEL. Thanks to ARDITI - Regional Agency for the Development of Research Technology and Innovation through the support provided by the M14-20 Project - 09-5369-FSE-000001- PhD Scholarship. E.F. was supported by FCT MCTES and NOVA LINCS UID/CEC/04516/2013.

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  1. Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute/University of Madeira, Funchal, Portugal

    Frederica Gonçalves

  2. University of Madeira/NOVA LINCS, Funchal, Portugal

    Eduardo Fermé

  3. ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

    João C. Ferreira

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  3. Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Felgueiras, Portugal

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Gonçalves, F., Fermé, E., Ferreira, J.C. (2017). Emerging Opportunities for Ambient Intelligence in Creativity Support Tools. In: Madureira, A., Abraham, A., Gamboa, D., Novais, P. (eds) Intelligent Systems Design and Applications. ISDA 2016. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 557. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53480-0_63

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