ABSTRACT

With the recent advancements in digital technologies, the design studios are transformed to virtual environments that offer both to design students and instructors a broader perspective in understanding the design process. As an integral part of design process, the supporting virtual tools enhance creativity in basic design studios. This study examines the influence of immersive and non-immersive virtual design environments on design process creativity in the first year basic design studio, through observing the factors related to creativity as the flow state and motivation. Consequently, an experiment is conducted to investigate the relationships between spatial ability, flow state and motivation in immersive and non-immersive virtual design environments. Forty-two first-year undergraduate basic design students participated in the experiment. The data analysis demonstrated that the immersive virtual design environment facilitates participants’ design process creativity more than the non-immersive one. Also, the findings indicated a positive strong correlation between motivations and flow state and a positive weak correlation between spatial ability and flow state. Study results contributed to a greater understanding of implementing immersive virtual reality as a creativity supporting tool.

摘要

随着数字技术的最新进步，设计工作室转变为虚拟环境，为设计学生和教师提供了理解设计过程的更广阔的视角。作为设计过程的一个组成部分，支持的虚拟工具增强了基础设计工作室的创造力。本研究通过观察与创造力相关的流动状态和动机等因素，探讨沉浸式和非沉浸式虚拟设计环境对一年级基础设计工作室设计过程创造力的影响。因此，进行了一项实验来研究沉浸式和非沉浸式虚拟设计环境中的空间能力、流动状态和动机之间的关系。42名本科一年级基础设计专业学生参加了实验。数据分析表明，沉浸式虚拟设计环境比非沉浸式虚拟设计环境更能促进参与者的设计过程创造力。此外，研究结果表明动机和心流状态之间呈强正相关，而空间能力和心流状态之间呈弱正相关。研究结果有助于更好地理解将沉浸式虚拟现实作为创造力支持工具。