Major:The Narrative Theatre - A Creativity Enhancement Environment

再现是创作过程中的核心结构。探索替代表示可以显著提高所创建工件的质量，并且使用多种表示使创建者能够广泛地考虑他们所探索的问题空间的多面性。叙事为研究创作过程中的多种表现形式提供了一个理想的实验室，因为故事可以用丰富的文本（静态的、单模态的表现形式）来表达，再用伴随叙事和口语对话的动画故事来表达（动态的、多模态的表现形式）。本研究的目的是设计、构建和实证评估一个互动创意环境，以促进在创意过程中探索替代表征。特别地，提议的工作将集中在叙事剧院，一个互动的叙事为中心的创意环境。该项目将产生对创造力的认知，为下一代创造力环境的设计提供信息。通过促进既有效又吸引人的丰富互动，它将在教育和培训技术中得到广泛应用。该项目将增加妇女和代表性不足的少数民族的参与。它将使不同的人口参与叙事剧院用户研究，它将使妇女参与研究的各个方面，它将通过参与正式和非正式的研究工作来培训本科生，它将通过与STARS联盟的互动来增加妇女和代表性不足的群体对计算机科学的参与。

Representation is a central construct in the creative process. Exploring alternate representations can significantly increase the quality of artifacts created, and using multiple representations enables creators to broadly consider the multifaceted nature of the problem spaces they explore. Narrative offers an ideal laboratory for investigating multiple representations in the creative process because stories can be expressed in rich text (a static, uni-modal representation) re-represented in animated stories with accompanying narration and spoken dialogue (a dynamic, multimodal representation). The objective of the proposed research is to design, build, and empirically evaluate an interactive creativity environment that facilitates the exploration of alternate representations in the creative process. In particular, the proposed work will focus on the Narrative Theatre, an interactive narrative-centered creativity environment.The project will yield a cognitive account of creativity that will inform the design of next-generation creativity environments. By promoting rich interactions that are simultaneously effective and engaging, it will find broad application in education and training technologies. The project will increase the participation of women and underrepresented minorities. It will involve a diverse population in the Narrative Theatre user studies, it will involve women in all aspects of the research, it will train undergraduates through involvement in formal and informal research exposure efforts, and it will increase the participation of women and underrepresented groups in computer science through interaction with the STARS Alliance.