An Emotion-Oriented Creativity Stimulation System

Creativity has a major impact on the development of a person, on a field and on a country. Hence, creativity is always a topic of great interest. Until a few centuries ago, creativity was considered to be a personality trait, but with the growing amount of research on creativity, there is an abundant of evidence that creativity can be influenced by situational and human factors.

The aim of this research is to present a computational way to stimulate creativity based on emotion monitoring. This thesis demonstrates the feasibility and details of the proposed approach in the following phases. Phase one is to review the nature of creativity from its theories and models to determine the influence of intrinsic human factors on creativity. Analysing the intrinsic factors and studying the approaches to measure creativity, it is proved that the creativity can be stimulated with the use of related factors. To highlight the intrinsic factors, emotions have been studied in order to discover its relationship to creativity and find how does emotion affect human ability to create.

Moreover, the proposed study explores the relationship between emotion, creativity, and creativity stimulation in relation to emotion as an intrinsic factor. To prove the above hypothesis, this research reviews the mostly used theories and models of emotions with comparing to the creativity theories and emotions in order to discover the evidence that can be used to justify the relationship between emotion and creativity. Lastly, to illustrate this idea, an emotion-oriented creativity system has been proposed and developed to present the correlation of emotions and creativity. Based on the statistic of the results chart experimented by several students, the participants’ performance demonstrates their typing speed and creativity has been promoted while using this system.