BEYOND TECHCARDS: A FIRST STEP TOWARD THE INVESTIGATION OF NEW DIMENSIONS OF INTERMEDIATE REPRESENTATIONS TO SUPPORT THE CREATIVE PROCESS OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES

This paper presents a design tool that supports collaboration, communication and creativity in a context of highly specialized technological complexity and within a multidisciplinary team. This study explores two research questions involving the aforementioned session. tool, the TechCards. The first investigates the effect of the tool in a creativity The second examines the opportunity to turn a typical creativity session into a gaming experience with the TechCards. Creativity production and intrinsic motivation were measured. Results showed industrial combined that our intermediate plus, the objects game improve condition intrinsic fluency and adaptation of ideation related to our context; with TechCards enhances