Peter Organisciak
Associate Professor, Research Methods and Information Science, University of Denver
I work on creativity and AI, as well as massive-scale text analysis.
See my CV, or find me and the Massive Texts Lab on Github. Subscribe to Creativity Byte for updates on Education and AI.
Check out online tools: Open Creativity Scoring for scoring tests of creativity, and HT+Bookworm for exploring historic language trends.
Updates
AI Literacy Course
See notes from my Winter 2025 course, AI/IA - Artificial Intelligence in the Information Age.
Explore technical foundations, co-creativity, ethics, and practical applications of AI.
Web Toys
I've been putting some recent Web API games and experiments together in a single place.
Creativity Scoring
If you're interesting in administering the Measure of Original Thinking in Elementary Students (MOTES), contact me.
Recent Research
Computer vision techniques effectively automate scoring of figural creativity tests.
A three-study investigation applied computer vision approaches to score drawn tests of creative thinking and ideation. The study achieved strong correlations with human scores, demonstrating the viability of automated creativity assessment across multiple test formats.
An analysis of how research leverages data types and visualizations in communication.
A large content analysis of JASIS&T journals, complemented by computer vision, sheds light on visual data in scholarly communication.
Scoring creativity with Large-Language models greatly improves on state of the art models.
Studying creativity is challenged by the difficulty of measuring and scoring tests of originality. We improved on automated scoring of one common test, the Alternate Uses Task, to a large degree.
Synthetic data can address class imbalance in digital library classifiers.
We seek to identify whole-part relationships between books, such as when one story is published in another anthology. This type of relationship is hard to infer from cataloguing metadata, but we find that constructing artificial books can teach a deep neural network classifier what the relationship looks like.
Research access over sensitive or restricted texts can be encouraged through non-expressive distribution strategies.
Text analysis in the digital humanities is challenged by legal hurdles, which make it difficult to access and especially to redistribute datasets of modern texts. We explore principles of non-expressive and non-consumptive access as one solution to enabling research access to sensitive texts.
Writing
See my papers on Google Scholar. I once wrote about crowds and text at Sense and Sentences.
Consulting
I consult with Neuristics. Contact me to inquire about creativity and AI, data mining and machine learning assistance.
Fun
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