Alternative Uses Task Designer
Alternative Uses Task Designer
Purpose
This skill encodes expert methodological knowledge for designing Alternative Uses Task (AUT) experiments — the most widely used measure of divergent thinking in creativity research. It provides domain-specific parameter recommendations for stimulus selection, timing, condition design (including AI-augmented variants), online implementation, and quality control. A general-purpose programmer would not know the standard objects, timing constraints, scoring dimensions, or the critical design choices that determine whether an AUT experiment yields valid creativity data.
When to Use This Skill
- Designing a study measuring divergent thinking or creative ideation
- Setting up an AUT experiment with AI-assisted conditions (e.g., ChatGPT, web search)
- Choosing appropriate objects, timing, and instructions for an AUT
- Adapting the AUT for online administration (MTurk, Prolific, Qualtrics)
- Planning attention checks and exclusion criteria for creativity studies
Research Planning Protocol
Before executing the domain-specific steps below, you MUST:
- State the research question — What specific question is this AUT study addressing?
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