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- CreaSenses: fostering creativity through olfactory cuesPublication . Gonçalves, Frederica; Cabral, Diogo; Campos, PedroSmell is a strong trigger of memories and creativity. Different smells can create sensitive environments that can foster creative tasks. In this paper, we present CreaSenses, a study that includes olfactory cues, representing different types of sensitive environ ments such as “food” and “ambience” in a within-subject design. Our aim was to obtain a deeper understanding of which smell cues promote higher levels of creativity during the process of creative writing. We discuss the results in the light of creative senses and potential implications for the design of creativity support tools. In addition, our study was evaluated trough the Creativity Support Index.
- I smell creativity: exploring the effects of olfactory and auditory cues to support creative writing tasksPublication . Gonçalves, Frederica; Cabral, Diogo; Campos, Pedro; Schöning, JohannesHumans perceive different objects, scenes or places using all their senses. Our sensory richness also plays an important role for creative activities. Humans also recall those sensory experiences in order to spark creativity, e.g. while writing a text. This paper presents a study with 100 students, divided in groups, that explores the effect of auditory and olfactory cues and their combina tion during a creative writing exercise. Our results provide useful insights sug gesting that olfactory cues have an important role in the creative process of users and even when this type of cues are combined with auditory cues. We believe, that this type of modalities should gain more relevance on the development of creativity support tools and environments for supporting the creative writing pro cess.