Mild Place Illusion

Abstract

Developments in Virtual Reality (VR) technology have modified the creative potential of each individual. We introduce a new concept, called "mild place illusion", as a new paradigm for designing VR-based user interfaces targeted at stimulating creativity. We show that for creative tasks -such as creative writing, new product ideation, and brainstorming -a "just-enough" amount of place illusion leads to a greater self-perception of creativity, as opposed to a "full-level" place illusion. This is a somewhat unexpected result since one would suppose, a priori, to have the full-level place illusion as the optimal setup for stimulating creativity. We considered that the methodology in this work was fairly complex, but our results show -through a data triangulation approach -that we were able to identify more consistent and personal creative experiences. Therefore, the main contribution of this paper is a new paradigm for designing VR user interfaces targeted at stimulating creativity by showing that a "one-illusion interspace" leads to a greater selfperception of creativity.

Virtual Brainstorming and Creativity: An Analysis of Measures, Avatars, Environments, Interfaces, and Applications

“…The mild place illusion condition resulted in a higher self-perception of creativity in comparison to the full level of place illusion condition and condition without illusion. Moreover, they verified that a mild place illusion interface enabled individuals to generate higher levels of creativity and performance (Gonçalves and Campos, 2018).…”

“…Four main types of research experiments are used to evaluate the impact of using VR in brainstorming to enhance creativity, according to our literature analysis. (1) Approximately 33% of the studies either designed an interface or developed an application to further test and compare the effectiveness of the application for brainstorming (Fominykh et al, 2014;Forens et al, 2015;Gonçalves and Campos, 2018;Kuťák et al, 2019;Petrykowski et al, 2019). (2) Approximately 26.7% of the papers compared specific elements in VEs, such as the different virtual objects (Minas et al, 2016) or dynamic and static persona (Bonnardel et al, 2016).…”

“…Approximately 26.7% (n = 4) of the papers evaluated the creative performance by accounting for the number of ideas and analysing some subdimensions, such as fluency, originality, uniqueness, and novelty (Bhagwatwar et al, 2018(Bhagwatwar et al, , 2013Forens et al, 2015;Minas et al, 2016). The rest of the studies (n = 4) focused on measuring other factors that might be related to creativity, such as the effect of the VE on the participants' creative processes (Hwang et al, 2020), usability of the system features (Kuťák et al, 2019), the advantages and disadvantages of application (Fominykh et al, 2014), and participants' level of concentration and sense of control (Gonçalves and Campos, 2018), as shown in Figure 2. We adopted the terms from the authors' original works, such as the originality and uniqueness.…”

“…Interface refers to the VR-based user interface. We adopted the terms as in the authors' original study (Gonçalves and Campos, 2018). Although the interface should be included in the application section, the experiment conducted by Gonçalves and Campos needs to be discussed separately, because their experiment only focused on the user interface with different illusions instead of the application design, such as functions, tools, or technologies.…”

Can Eating Make Us More Creative? A Multisensory Perspective

“…In terms of creativity enhancement, are multiple senses better than one? In the area of creativity support tools, Goncalves and Campos [68] demonstrated that a creative writing support software with both audio (inspirational soundtrack) and visual (dynamic landscape) stimuli promoted greater self-reported creativity compared to using a baseline text processor without any audiovisual accompaniments. Interestingly, the authors found that a "just enough" approach providing audiovisual stimuli within the software itself was at least as good, if not better, at promoting creativity than a full-on virtual reality environment.…”