From generative fit to generative capacity: Exploring an emerging dimension of information systems design and task performance

Information Systems Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 345-367

  Avital, Michel ^a   Te'Eni, Dov ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Creativity; Generative capacity; Generative design; Human computer interaction; Requirements engineering; Systems design

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650044706     PISSN: 13501917     EISSN: 13652575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2575.2007.00291.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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