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Chapter 3
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61350-489-5.ch003
George A. Sielis
University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Christos Mettouris
University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Aimilia Tzanavari
University of Cyprus, Cyprus
George A. Papadopoulos
University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Context-Aware
Recommendations using
Topic Maps Technology
for the Enhancement of
the Creativity Process
ABSTRACT
Learning can be observed in the creativity process. When this process is supported by a Creativity
Support Tool (CST), considering the context in which ideas are developed, as well as the context around
the user himself and the task he is carrying out can potentially enhance creativity.The tool’s awareness
of such context can be exploited in the offering of useful context-aware recommendations to the users
on topics such as relevant resources, people, ideas, projects, et cetera. These recommendations can help
users during the creativity process and the learning involved, by providing productive stimuli. In the
work presented in this chapter we focus on describing a method for enhancing the creativity process
through context-aware recommendations. The method uses ontologies for the knowledge representa-
tion of context and the topic maps technology for storing, managing, and delivering content used as
recommendations. Furthermore we present the software system that has been developed to support this
method in a particular collaborative CST, as well as its evaluation.