Characteristics of Applications that Support Creativity
Creativity typically involves some novel change to a
symbolic domain and the production of some artifact judged by
domain experts, in some manner, to be creative
[1, 2]. An understanding of
basic principles and preexisting knowledge helps one know
what, when, where, and how to tweak a pattern in order to
produce something creative. Creative tweaks may be seen in
art, in science, and indeed, in everyday life. The role of
preexisting knowledge is recognized as critical to evaluation
in one of the more formal mechanisms for recognizing creative
inventions?patents. While patentable inventions must be
sufficiently creative and novel, they must also be described
well enough for someone skilled in the art to be able to
build them.