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The purpose of this study is to investigate how task difficulty and emotion, as sources of stress, affect creativity manifestation activities such as exploration and exploitation in the decision support system (DSS) environment. In the study we presented a situation where the subjects needed to exert creativity to resolve a task, and the result was analyzed through the measurement of physiological signal data in the process of resolving a task. Empirical results reveal that exploration activities are facilitated in less stressful environments, while exploitation is facilitated in stressful situations.
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This work was supported by the Korea Research Foundation Grant funded by the Korean Government (KRF-2009-342-B00015).
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Chae, S.W., Lee, K.C., Hahn, M.H. (2013). Exploring the Revelation Process for Individual Creativity Based on Exploitation and Exploration: A Physiological Experiment Approach. In: Lee, K. (eds) Digital Creativity. Integrated Series in Information Systems, vol 32. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5749-7_5
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