Everything about Computational creativity

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Computational creativityA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Studying interrelations of computational thinking and creativity: A scoping review (2011–2020)Influential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: The InnovatorsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Searching for computational creativityCited 88 times
5. Go sideways: Pop music automationA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Soft computingA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Searching for computational creativity

  Geraint A. Wiggins · 2006 · New Generation Computing · 88 citations

• Computational Approaches to Storytelling and Creativity

  Pablo Gervás · 2009 · AI Magazine · 82 citations

• Creativity in the acquisition of computational thinking

  Arnon Hershkovitz, Raquel Sitman, Rotem Israel-Fishelson · 2019 · Interactive Learning Environments · 77 citations

• Computational Creativity: Coming of Age

  Simon Colton, Ramon López de Mántaras, Oliviero Stock · 2009 · AI Magazine · 61 citations

• Human-Computer Co-Creativity: Blending Human and Computational Creativity

  Nicholas Davis · 2013 · Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment · 45 citations

• Evaluating Computational Creativity

  Carolyn Lamb, Daniel G. Brown, Charles L. A. Clarke · 2018 · ACM Computing Surveys · 44 citations

• Data mining and machine learning in computational creativity

  Hannu Toivonen, Oskar Gross · 2015 · WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery · 39 citations

• Computational support for collective creativity

  K Nakakoji, Y Yamamoto, M Ohira · 2000 · Knowledge-Based Systems · 21 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Studying interrelations of computational thinking and creativity: A scoping review (2011–2020)

  Rotem Israel-Fishelson, Arnon Hershkovitz · 2022 · Computers & Education · 85 citations

• Investigating the Impact of Design Thinking-Based STEAM PBL on Students’ Creativity and Computational Thinking

  Chu-Yang Chang, Zhengyi Du, Hsu-Chan Kuo · 2023 · IEEE Transactions on Education · 40 citations

• Computational gastronomy: capturing culinary creativity by making food computable

  Ganesh Bagler, Mansi Goel · 2024 · npj Systems Biology and Applications · 30 citations

• Beethoven's Ninth and AI's Tenth: A comparison of human and computational creativity

  Anthony K. Brandt · 2023 · Journal of Creativity · 23 citations

• Retrieval flexibility links to creativity: evidence from computational linguistic measure

  Jingyi Zhang, Kaixiang Zhuang, Jiangzhou Sun · 2022 · Cerebral Cortex · 21 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The InnovatorsWalter Isaacson, Francisco José Ramos Mena · 2014
• Inside AppleAdam Lashinsky · 2012
• Artificial intelligence and literary creativitySelmer Bringsjord, David Ferrucci · 1999
• The Creativity CodeMarcus du Sautoy · 2019
• Bored and brilliantManoush Zomorodi · 2017
• Lifelong kindergartenMitchel Resnick · 2017
• Peppa PigPeppa Pig Staff · 2012
• 101 design methodsVijay Kumar · 2012

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