Screenshot of the paired comparison section of the CSI.

The Creativity Support Index

The Creativity Support Index (or CSI) is a survey metric designed for evaluating the ability of a tool to support the creative process. A preliminary version of the CSI is available below, but I am currently in the process of releasing an official version, which is currently being written up for journal publication.

Electronic Version of the CSI

CSI Mac App
CSI Jar
*Note that this is a preliminary release.

Relevant Publications:

  1. Erin A. Carroll, Celine  Latulipe, Richard Fung, & Michael Terry. Creativity Factor Evaluation: Towards a Standardized Survey Metric for Creativity Support. In Proceedings of ACM Creativity & Cognition 2009, 10 pages, October 2009 PDF.
  2. Erin A. Carroll and Celine Latulipe. The Creativity Support Index. (Refereed Poster) In ACM CHI 2009 Companion Proceedings, 6 pages, April 2009. PDF.