Computational Creativity
Personal Profile
Ricardo Sosa
PhD (USYD 2005) · BA (UAM 1996)
- Research Interests: The social nature of creativity,
Resistance to change, The link between creativity and innovation
Affiliation
Profesor Investigador, categoría Titular-B. Tiempo completo por tiempo indeterminado. Jefe del Departamento de Teoría y Procesos del Diseño, División de Ciencias de la Comunicación y Diseño, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Cuajimalpa.
Current Projects
- Visual Daydreaming
- Edge effects
- Team brainstorming
Computational Explorations of Creativity and Innovation in Design
My PhD dissertation which addresses the social nature of creativity through simulation models of designers and their societies. This work shows that creativity is a product of the interaction between cognitive and social processes. It presents a number of situational factors that help understand why individual characteristics alone are often insufficient to account for the nature and the effects of creative behaviour.
Available from:
Australian Digital Theses Program
Blog
Teaching and Learning Design
Further information soon...
Publications
- Sosa, R and Gero, JS: 2007, Societies that promote Innovation: Towards an understanding of change agency in a complex world, FUTURES, The journal of policy, planning and futures studies
- Gero, JS and Sosa, R: 2007, Complexity measures as a basis for mass customisation of novel designs, Environment and Planning B- Planning & Design
- Sosa, R and Gero, JS: 2005, A computational study of creativity in design: the role of society, Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing AIEDAM , 19(4) 229-244 pdf available
- Sosa, R and Gero, JS: 2005, Social models of creativity: Integrating the DIFI and FBS frameworks to study creative design, in Gero, JS and Maher, ML (eds), Computational and Cognitive Models of Creative Design VI, Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition, University of Sydney, pp. 19-44 pdf available
- Sosa, R and Gero, JS: 2004, Diffusion of creative design: Gatekeeping effects, International Journal of Architectural Computing IJAC, 2(4), pp. 517-531 pdf available
- Sosa, R and Gero, JS: 2004, A computational framework for the study of creativity and innovation in design: Effects of social ties, in JS Gero ed. Design Computing and Cognition, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 499-517. pdf available
- Sosa, R and Gero, JS: 2004, The role of gatekeepers in creativity, in P Gervas and K Moy Gupta eds. Computational Creativity Workshop, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 257-268
- Sosa, R and Gero, JS: 2003, Social change: Exploring design influence, in D Hales, B Edmonds, E Norling and J Rouchier eds., Multi-Agent-Based Simulation III, Springer, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2927, 106-119. ISBN: 3-540-20736-8. pdf available
- Sosa, R and Gero, JS: 2003, Design and change: A model of situated creativity, in C Bento, A Cardoso and JS Gero eds. "Creative Systems: Approaches to Creativity in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science", 25-34 pdf available
- Sosa, R and Gero, JS: 2002, Cellular automata models of creative design situations, in JS Gero and F Brazier eds. Agents in Design 2002, Universidad de Sydney, Australia, 165-180 pdf available
- Sosa, R: 1999, Modelling creative design through conversation analysis, in Edmonds, E and Candy, L (eds), Third Conference on Creativity & Cognition, Loughborough University, UK, 182-183
Introducing Java to designers
A while ago I prepared this presentation as an entry point to programming for design students. The slides are available here. Here is the Source code for the example: Evolutionary Design System. You will also need the JGAP and BigFaceless libraries. I guess I'd now suggest to try out Processing.