DrawTalking It Out: Creativity-Support Research as Creative Process Itself
I think the creative process in conducting open-ended creativity-adjacent research is itself part of the creative process (including ideation, pivots, and tangents excluded from the final work) that deserves greater emphasis. how might we bridge multiple open-ended projects and serve broader non-technical audiences? We may choose to emphasize interaction techniques rather than singular tools in isolation. We may grow a community based on our shareable experiences in creativity interactions, to draw more complete pictures of how we creatively solve creativity problems (or satisfy curiosities). This may lead to new directions. I briefly elaborate on this using the example of "DrawTalking" a drawing+talking interactions work. DrawTalking itself resulted from a winding creative process exploring spontaneous interactive world-building and storytelling when drawing and talking.