The Effect of Virtual-Reality-Based Restorative Environments on Creativity

Abstract

This study, based on the theory of complex therapeutic environments, uses virtual reality (VR) technology to construct interactive restorative environments and discusses the influence of the experience of virtual restorative environment on individual creativity. A total of 72 college students were selected as participants in the study. Through psychological scales, three creativity tests, and EEG feedback data, the following conclusions were drawn:(1) The VR restorative environment experience improves individual creativity, especially the creative quality of cohesion; (2) the experience of the VR restorative environment enables participants to experience a desirable sense of presence. Compared with the restorative scene experience without interactive activities, the addition of interactive activities improves the individual sensory fidelity to a greater extent. (3) We cannot simply assume that the experience of the VR restorative environment with interactive activities will make individual creative performance better than non-interactive experience. Interaction with certain difficulty will increase cognitive load, thus disrupting individual creative performance. Garden scenes that can be explored freely and have no interaction can better promote individual creativity. (4) In the environmental experience, participants paid greater attention to natural elements, and the restorative environment they described was very similar to the environment they believed could foster creativity. This study’s results provide evidence for the positive effects of the VR restorative environment experience on individuals and contributes to the cognitive exploration of the interaction between restorative environments and individuals in the future.

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Wood in office spaces: The impact of different wooden furniture on aesthetic evaluation

“…Environmental psychology research showed that built environments with natural elements were more popular and more positively evaluated by people ( Ulrich, 1983 ; Brandt and Shook, 2005 ). Attention Recovery Theory ( Kaplan and Kaplan, 1989 ) and Psychological Recovery Theory (also known as Stress Reduction Theory, Ulrich, 1991 ) posit that introducing natural elements into the built environment can effectively help people recover from psychological depletion and improve their psychological wellbeing more generally ( Burnard et al, 2017 ; Li et al, 2022 ). Specifically, Attention Recovery Theory states that natural views provide stimulation which activates undirected attention and restores depleted attention system ( Kaplan and Kaplan, 1989 ; Kaplan, 1995 ), while Stress Reduction Theory believed that natural environments could aid recovery from stressful events, block negative thoughts, and turn emotions to positive side, help people restore healthy cognition and behavior ( Ulrich, 1983 ; Ulrich, 1991 ; Ulrich et al, 1991 ).…”