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application/pdf, This study evaluates the impact of teacher's supports on high school student's creativity improvement. Existing literatures propose types of teacher's supports that are useful to student's creativity improvement, but they do not prioritize teacher's supports in terms of effectiveness of the creative education and discuss types of supports that are suitable to students in a specific situation. By using survey to attendees and their supervisors of an idea contest for high school students, this study identifies that to improve student's creativity not only letting students keep motivated and giving them useful feedbacks but also making the environment of the students suitable to creativity improvement are effective. This study also identifies that there are significant differences between teacher's supports in classroom activity and extracurricular activity as well as those between group work and individual work. By providing these findings to teachers of creativity education, they can support their students more effectively.

application/pdf, This study analyzes the impact of the idea contest administration on attendees' creativity improvement using the IT Dream Contest 2015. Recently contests are used as an educational tool to improve students' creativity. Even though both supervisors of the attendees and the contest organizers share the same goal, to improve creativity of the students, usually they do not share information about contest administration to effectively achieve the goal. This study uses attendees' creativity self-evaluation as a means to measure creativity education effect and reveals how organizers should design the contest. Creativity improves more when students attend the contest as a group than as individuals, and when students attend as a classroom activity than as an extracurricular activity. Themes of the 2015 contest do not have any educational difference in this case. By providing these findings to supervisors, contest organizers will run the idea contest to effectively achieve the contest objectives.

application/pdf, In order to animate cloths in 3DCG (cloth simulation methods about 3DCG animation), a cloth is modeled by a 2-dimensional surface in 3-dimensional Euclideanspace, and the motion is simulated based on the Newton's dynamics equation of the surface. In this paper, the dimension of the surface will be generalized. The authors derived the Newtonian dynamics equation of m-dimensional surface(manifold) in n-dimensional Euclidean space. In many cloth simulation methods about 3DCG animation, surfaces are modeled by finite material particles. The authors proposed a method to derive the Newtonian dynamics equation of the continuum surface model based on the variational principles.