Creativity research has privileged making over the interpretive labor that precedes and shapes it. We introduce Reading Activity Traces (RATs), a proposal that treats reading -- broadly defined to include navigating, interpreting, and curating media across interconnected sources -- as creative activity both for future artifacts and as a form of creation in its own right. By tracing trajectories of traversal, association, and reflection as inspectable artifacts, RATs render visible the creative work that algorithmic feeds and AI summarization increasingly compress and automate away. We illustrate this through WikiRAT, a speculative instantiation on Wikipedia, and open new ground for reflective practice, reader modeling, collective sensemaking, and understanding what is lost when human interpretation is automated -- towards designing intelligent tools that preserve it.

翻译：创造力研究长期将创作置于解释性劳动之上，而后者恰恰是塑造创作的前提与基础。本文提出阅读活动轨迹（RATs）这一概念框架，将阅读——广义上涵盖跨互联资源的导航、阐释与策展行为——既视为未来产物的创造性准备，也作为自成体系的创作形式。通过将阅读过程中的路径轨迹、关联构建与反思活动转化为可检视的实体化痕迹，RATs使算法推送与AI摘要技术日益压缩和自动化的创造性工作重新显性化。我们以维基百科为场景构建了概念性实例WikiRAT，借此为反思性实践、读者建模、集体意义建构以及理解人类阐释被自动化替代的代价开辟了新路径，最终指向能够保留人类解释力的智能工具设计。