Design and evaluation of an AI-based application to enhance creativity in design thinking workshops

ABSTRACT: We designed and evaluated an AI-based Application to enhance human creativity in design thinking workshops. The results indicated that AI hindered human creativity, resulting in fewer idea generations. The findings from quantitative and qualitative analyses comparing the only-human and human-AI teams indicated that AI contributed to the usability of ideas during the divergent phase and supported humans in converging on more novel ideas. The further development of the application is necessary to consider how humans can collaborate with AI without relying on it.