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Establishing creative-friendly space for design thinking in shared virtual reality in tertiary design education
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Date Issued
2007
Citation
Lau, K. W. (2007 Nov 14). Establishing creative-friendly space for design thinking in shared virtual reality in tertiary design education. IASDR 2007, Hong Kong.
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
This paper aims at reviewing the major components of establishing a creative-friendly space in
shared virtual reality for facilitating students’ design thinking in tertiary design education. One of
the important ingredients is creating environmental stimulation for creativity enhancement. As
Green (1974) states that design education is fundamentally influenced by environment not only
the hardware but also the senses of sight, sound, taste and touch. In shared virtual reality, the
platform provides a learning community with various learning activities and stimulation. In this
paper, various topics will be discussed for providing the underlying principles in establishing
creative-friendly virtual learning environment. Emphasis is placed on (1) the environmental factors
in design thinking and creativity; (2) issues of socio-cultural environment as a stimulus of creative
minds; (3) How an environment serves as stimulus and information provider for design study; (4) how to create a heuristic shared virtual space for design thinking; and (5) the basic principles of
establishing shared virtual environment for facilitating design thinking.
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