Innovation is built on the obscure: Innovation-enhancing software for uncovering the obscure

C and C 2011 - Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 371-372

  McCaffrey, Tony ^a   Spector, Lee ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIXATION EFFECTS; HUMAN MACHINE INTERACTION; INNOVATIVE PROCESS; SEARCH PROCESS; SEMANTIC NETWORK;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84858162827     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2069618.2069701     Document Type: Conference Paper

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