News

• I am the publicity chair for the Third International Conference on Computational Creativity, which will be May 30-June 1, 2012 in Dublin, Ireland.
  • Paper submissions are due January 16: see Call for Papers
  • See websites for past conferences: 2011, 2010

Information

• Please see my Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
• I am a postdoctoral researcher at The University of California, Davis working with Dean Simonton.
• I am also a postdoctoral researcher at The University of California, Berkeley, working in the Culture and Cognition Lab and the Visual Perception and Aesthetics Lab.

Upcoming Travel and Conferences

• In November, I will be presenting a paper at the ACM Creativity and Cognition conference.
  • Jennings, K.E., Simonton, D.K., and Palmer, S.E. (2011, November). Understanding Exploratory Creativity in a Visual Domain. To appear in Proceedings of the Eighth ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition, Atlanta, GA. [Paper]
• In January, I will be presenting a poster at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology conference.
  • Jennings, K.E. (2012, January). Perceived Compliance and Expected Compromise in the Attitude Attribution Paradigm: Empirical Test of a Bayesian Model. Poster to be presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference, San Diego, CA.

Recent Presentations

• In April, I presented at the Second International Conference on Computational Creativity in Mexico City, Mexico.
  • For a more up-to-date summary of the research presented, see my upcoming ACM Creativity and Cognition paper.

Selected Papers and Presentations

Creativity

• Creativity as Search
  • Jennings, K. E. (January, 2010). Search Strategies and the Creative Process. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computational Creativity, Lisbon, Portugal. [Paper]
  • Jennings, K. E. (October, 2009). Early Results with Faceted Classification of "Alternate Uses" Test Responses. Poster presented at the ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference, Berkeley, CA. [Extended Abstract]
  • Jennings, K. E. (2008, March). Adjusting the novelty thermostat: Courting creative success through judicious randomness. Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Creative Intelligent Systems, Stanford, California. [Paper, Poster]
• Creative Artificial Intelligence and Creativity Simulations
  • Jennings, K. E. (2010). Developing creativity: Artificial barriers in artificial intelligence. Mind & Machines, 20(4), 489-501. [Paper (Open Access)]
    • Revision of: Jennings, K. E. (2008, September). Developing creativity: Artificial barriers in artificial intelligence. Fifth International Joint Workshop on Computational Creativity, Madrid, Spain. [Paper]
  • Sosa, R., Gero, J., and Jennings, K. E. (2009, October). Growing and Destroying the Worth of Ideas. ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference, Berkeley, California. [Paper]
  • "Why Simulating Creativity Matters" (talk given at the AAAI Spring Symposium on Creative Intelligent Systems, March 2008). [Slides, Podcast]
    • See also: "Adjusting the novelty thermostat: Courting creative success through judicious randomness." [Paper, Poster]
• Novelty
  • Jennings, K. E. (2008, March). Adjusting the novelty thermostat: Courting creative success through judicious randomness. AAAI Spring Symposium on Creative Intelligent Systems, Stanford, California. [Paper, Poster]
    • See also: "Why Simulating Creativity Matters" [Slides, Podcast]
  • "Kinds of Novelty and Their Place in the Creative Process" (talk given to the University of Sussex e-Intentionality research group, February 2008). [Audio]
• Attribution of Creativity
  • Jennings, K. E. (2008, July). The Double-Edged Sword of "Hazardous" Traits in Creative Achievement, and Our Blindness to It. Poster presented at the International Society for the Psychology of Science and Technology Conference, Berlin, Germany. [Poster]
  • Jennings, K. E. (2007, October). Statistical errors in creativity research: Survivorship bias and alpha inflation in attributing creativity and its causes. Presentation at the Tenth European Conference on Creativity and Innovation, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Speedstorming
  • Joyce, C. K., Jennings, K. E., Hey, J. H. G., Kalil, T., and Grossman, J. C. (2010). Getting Down to Business: Using Speedstorming to Initiate Creative Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration. Creativity & Innovation Management, 19(1), 57-67. [Paper, Journal]
    • Revision of: Joyce, C., Jennings, K. E., Hey, J., Kalil, T., Grossman, J. C. (2007, October). Getting down to business: Results using speedstorming to initiate creative collaborations. Presentation at the Tenth European Conference on Creativity and Innovation, Copenhagen, Denmark. (Selected as one of the top five papers at the conference.) [Handout]
  • Hey, J., Joyce, C., Jennings, K. E., Kalil, T., Grossman, J. C. (2009). Putting the discipline in interdisciplinary: Using speedstorming to teach and initiate creative collaboration in nanoscience. Journal of Nanoeducation, 1(1), 75–85. [Paper, Journal]

Attribution

• Bayesian Models of Attribution
  • Jennings, K. E. (2012, January). Perceived Compliance and Expected Compromise in the Attitude Attribution Paradigm: Empirical Test of a Bayesian Model. Poster to be presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference, San Diego, CA.
  • Jennings, K. E. (2010). Coherent Attributions with Co-occurring and Interacting Causes. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of California, Berkeley. [Abstract]
  • Jennings, K. E. (2010, August). Determining the Internal Consistency of Attitude Attributions. In R. Catrambone & S. Ohlsson (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 978-83). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [Paper]
  • Jennings, K. E., and Peng, K. (2009, May). A Bayesian Reexamination of Cross-Cultural Differences in Attitude Attribution. Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Science Convention, San Francisco, CA.
  • Jennings, K. E. (2008, July). Cultural Differences in Trait Attribution and Discounting: A Bayesian Perspective. Presentation at the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conference, Bremen, Germany.
• Memory Structure and Attribution
  • Jennings, K. E. (2008, July). Making Meaningful Memory Structure Comparisons Using Bootstrap Analysis of Pathfinder Networks. Presentation at the International Congress of Psychology, Berlin, Germany. [Slides]
  • Jennings, K. E. (2007, May). A Network Analysis Approach to Understanding Cultural Differences in Attribution. Presentation at the Association for Psychological Science Convention, Washington, D.C.