I Smell Creativity: Exploring the Effects of Olfactory and Auditory Cues to Support Creative Writing Tasks

Gonçalves, Frederica; Cabral, Diogo; Campos, Pedro; Schöning, Johannes

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-67684-5_11

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“…In the only example of a multisensory study involving chemical senses, the combination of relaxing and stimulating smells and music was introduced to high school students during a writing task [ 69 ]. Interestingly, the combination of relaxing smell (laurel) and music (nature sounds) led to the highest creativity support index scores compared to either sense presented alone.…”

Section: Sensory Influences On Creativitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, creativity appears to depend on one being in a relaxed and positive emotional state. Therefore, sensory stimuli that promote a positive mental state also enhance creativity, whether it is from relaxing colors [ 46 ], happy music [ 54 ], familiar foods [ 60 ], or the combination of relaxing odors and music [ 69 ].…”

Section: Future Perspectives: How Might the Sensory Experience Of mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As our literature review in Section 2 revealed, many examples of sensory influences on creativity operated under the mechanism of emotion mediation. Creativity is enhanced when people feel happy [ 54 , 58 , 59 ] and either relaxed [ 69 ] or moderately excited [ 52 , 53 ]. Considering the mounting research on how what we eat influences how we feel (see [ 78 , 87 ], for reviews), future studies should investigate if foods with sensory characteristics that make us feel relaxed and happy, such as sweet foods [ 88 ] or soft foods [ 89 ], might also help us become more creative?…”

Section: Future Perspectives: How Might the Sensory Experience Of mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In general, when designing a creative eating environment, one should aim to induce a positive, nurturing, and social mindset and/or to introduce design elements with a clear association to creativity or related elements (e.g., tall ceilings to convey freedom or dim lighting to reduce inhibition). One potential area of future research involves investigating how multisensory combinations of creativity boosting factors can be combined in the eating environment while avoiding giving diners sensory overload [ 69 ].…”

Section: Future Perspectives: How Might the Sensory Experience Of mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Can Eating Make Us More Creative? A Multisensory Perspective

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While it is well known how food can make us physically healthy, it remains unclear how the multisensory experience of eating might influence complex cognitive abilities such as creativity. A growing body of literature has demonstrated that all human senses are capable of sparking creativity. It follows then that eating, as one of the most multisensory of all human behaviors, should be a playground for creative thinking. The present review presents an overview of how creativity is defined and measured and what we currently know about creativity as influenced by the senses, both singular and in conjunction. Based on this foundation, we provide an outlook on potential ways in which what we eat, where we eat, and how we eat might positively support creative thinking, with applications in the workplace and home. We present the view that, by offering a rich multisensory experience, eating nourishes not only our bodies but also our mental well-being.

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“…Additionally, creativity in writing has been examined under the influence of olfactory media. Gonçalves et al [18] tested several conditions including audio, scents, as well as both audio and olfactory media inside a classroom to investigate their impact on students while they were writing a short text as an experiment task. Regarding the olfactory media condition, they used hot coffee and a laurel fragrance inside the classroom.…”

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Using olfactory media cues in e-learning – perspectives from an empirical investigation

Alkasasbeh

Ghinea

2020

Multimed Tools Appl

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People interact with computers using their senses. Currently, in a digital context, traditional digital media like videos and images used to convey information to users, and these media can be used as a source of information. However, relatively few studies have been conducted on olfactory media as a source of information in a digital context. In this paper, we report on a study that examined the possibility of using olfactory media as a source of information and whether its usage as informational cues enhances learning performance and user Quality of Experience (QoE). To this end, an olfactory-enhanced quiz (web-based) was developed about four countries. The quiz contained different types of questions employing four types of digital media in their contents: text, image, audio and olfactory media. Four scents were used that were considered to be related to the respective countries. Sixty-four participants were invited to our experiment to evaluate this application. Our results revealed that usage of olfactory media synchronised with traditional digital media had a significant impact on learner performance compared to the case when no olfactory media was employed. In respect of user QoE, it was found that olfactory media influenced users positively; moreover, they were passionate about engaging with enhanced olfactory applications in the future.

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Enhancing Your Mental Well-Being and Creativity While Writing: A Crowdsource-Based Approach

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Campos²

2019

Human Work Interaction Design. Designing Engaging Automation

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We describe a crowdsourcing platform for writing called Creative-Wall, where users can preserve their creative writings and share them with the community. By using images, moods and locations we create a more visual perspective of a moment that can bring creativity and mental well-being to the writer. We also present an evaluation of our crowdsourced platform. Our findings suggest that, from a mental well-being perspective, the participants felt more inspired, more focused, more creative and more immersed when using the Crea-tiveWall add-in. Additionally, CreativeWall helps writers to trigger their creativity while writing. We highlight some results triangulating qualitative and quantitative data. Results show that users performing the tasks with CreativeWall lost track of time more often than participants using our baseline. From user interviews, results suggest that the tasks performed with the CreativeWall add-in were more enjoyable and that the users had no issues kickstarting the writing process, which could mean that these tools can help in the initial phase of the creative writing process.

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I Smell Creativity: Exploring the Effects of Olfactory and Auditory Cues to Support Creative Writing Tasks

Cited by 11 publications

References 26 publications

Can Eating Make Us More Creative? A Multisensory Perspective

Can Eating Make Us More Creative? A Multisensory Perspective

Using olfactory media cues in e-learning – perspectives from an empirical investigation

Enhancing Your Mental Well-Being and Creativity While Writing: A Crowdsource-Based Approach

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