Title
Constructures: Supporting Human Ingenuity In Software
Abstract
Existing media authoring software programs are generally regarded as offering little support for the earliest stages of the creative process, which have characteristics and needs that are distinct from the later stages. As a step toward addressing this, we present our constructural design philosophy: a set of principles that can be applied to software in any creative medium and under which we believe effective, early-stage creativity tools can be created. We then illustrate the application of these principles with Wheelsong, a complete, constructurally designed, early-stage music composition exploratorium and discuss a selection of musical sketches resulting from its use.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1080/14626260902868079
DIGITAL CREATIVITY
Keywords
Field
DocType
early-stage creativity, multimedia, software design, guidelines
Software design,Musical,Computer science,Musical composition,Software,Human–computer interaction,Ingenuity,Philosophy of design,Creativity,Multimedia
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
20
1-2
1462-6268
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
12
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jeff Smith100.34
David Mould211.72
Mark Daley316622.18