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  • #8. Lit Review: You Creative Brain

    #8. Lit Review: You Creative Brain

    I recently finished Shelley Carson’s book on the neural bases of creativity, and it was a pretty interesting read. Carson is a psychology professor at the Harvard Extension School and has been conducting research on creativity for many years. In Your Creative Brain, Carson’s main thesis of book is that everyone…

  • #7. Lit Review: Conceptual Blockbusting

    #7. Lit Review: Conceptual Blockbusting

    In Conceptual Blockbusting, author James L. Adams discusses various kinds of blocks that impede our ability to “conceptualize” of problems and solve them in a creative way. He believes it’s important to understand these kinds of blocks that act as impediments to our thinking because we can then begin to be more deliberate about overcoming them–that…

  • #6. Lit Review Map (So Far)

    #6. Lit Review Map (So Far)

    One of the things that I’m also juggling in the midst of conducting interviews and now analyzing my data is making sure I’m familiarizing myself with the literature. Like in my previous post, I mentioned that I was using Mindjet’s MindManager 9 to map out what I’m learning from my reading…

Real-World Creativity

Welcome to my thesis blog! I'm Priscilla, and I'm writing this thesis for my Masters degree in Interaction Design, but more importantly, to satisfy this curiosity I've had for a few years now to learn about how creativity really works, and of course, to design something that can support people being creative. This project should last one year, from Spring 2012 - Spring 2013. Feel free to contact me if you have any comments / feedback at priscilm [at symbol] andrew.cmu.edu.

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