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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 43 , Issue 7 (July 2000) table of contents

Pages: 110 - 116

Year of Publication: 2000

ISSN:0001-0782

Authors

Deborah K. Smith	Cognitive Psychology Area Coordinator, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
David B. Paradice
Steven M. Smith

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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	1	Couger, D.J. Creativity & Innovation in Information Systems Organizations. Boyd & Fraser Publishing Company, Danvers, MA, 1996.
	2	Finke, R.A., Ward, T.B., and Smith, S.M. Creative Cognition: theory, research, and applications. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1992.
	3	Finke, R.A. Creative realism. In The Creative Cognition Approach. Smith, S.M., Ward, T.B., and Finke, R.A., Eds. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1995. 303-326.
	4	Gardner, H. Creating Minds: an Anatomy of Creativity Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and GandhZ Basic Books, New York, NY, 1993.
	5	Robert T. Grauer , Carol Vazquez Villar , Arthur R. Buss, COBOL: from micro to mainframe (3rd ed.): preparing for the new millennium, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1998
	6	Jansson, D.G. and Smith, S.M. Design Fixation. Design Studies 12, 1 (1991), 3-11.
	7	Lubart, T.I. and Sternberg, R.J. An investment approach to creativity: theory and data. In The Creative Cognition Approach. Smith, S.M., Ward T.B, and Finke, R.A., Eds. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1995. 271-302.
	8	Stephen Segaller , Oregon Public Broadcasting, Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet, TVBooks,, 1998
	9	Smith, S.M. Getting into and out of Mental Ruts: a theory of fixation, incubation, and insight. In The Nature of Insight. Sternberg, R.J. and Davidson, J.E., Eds. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1995. 229-251.
	10	Ward, T.B. Structured Imagination: the role of category structure in exemplar generation. Cognitive Psychology 27, 1 (1994), 1-40.
	11	Ward, T.B., Finke, R.A., and Smith, S.M. Creativity and the Mind: Discovering the Genius Within. Plenum Press, New York, NY, 1995.
	12	Ward, T.B., Smith, S.M., and Vaid, J. Conceptual Structures and Processes in Creative Thought. In Creative Thought: An Investigation of Conceptual Structures and Processes. Ward, T.B., Smith, S.M., and Vaid, J., Eds. American Psychological Association, Washington, DC, 1997. 1-27.

CITED BY 2

	Sophie Nichol, Creative geeks..?: facilitating the creative growth of computer science students using engaging environments, Proceedings of the 19th conference of the computer-human interaction special interest group (CHISIG) of Australia on Computer-human interaction: citizens online: considerations for today and the future, November 21-25, 2005, Canberra, Australia
	Sophie Nichol , Katherine Blashki, Newbs vs. geeks: encouraging creativity in an online learning community, International Journal of Web Based Communities, v.4 n.1, p.17-32, January 2008

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
H. Information Systems
H.1 MODELS AND PRINCIPLES
H.1.2 User/Machine Systems
Subjects: Human factors

Additional Classification:
K. Computing Milieux
K.4 COMPUTERS AND SOCIETY

General Terms:
Human Factors

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