Although early studies in the fields of education and psychology appreciated the value of imagination, little work has been done pertaining to indicators of imagination. This study synthesized early works on imagination done between 1900 and 2011 to clarify its meaning and identify potential indicators. Then, two groups of samples were collected and validated through exploratory factor analysis...

This paper is an attempt to present a formal coherent framework for creative visual thinking. First, fundamentals of creativity and creative thought are discussed. Then designer’s dialogue with graphical outputs based on the constructive perception is analyzed. Constructive perception is defined as a composition of design actions combining normal seeing with visual imagination. The proposed fra...

The question from the mission of architecture and its relationship with human as the artist or theaudience, without addressing to the reality issue and the manner of cognition is not possible. As a human phenomenon,architecture is a product of human awareness on various aspects such as scientific, engineering, and artistic aspects.Therefore, clarifying the nature and the manner of awareness, co...

Dissociation theories of hypnosis suggest that absorption and dissociation are correlated with hypnotizability (1). Absorption can be described as a trait that involves openness to cognitive and affective alterations across several situations. Moreover, absorption is a participant's readiness for deep mental and emotional involvement, and the participant appears to be impervious to naturally di...

SeriousEducationalVideoGames(SEGs)playalargeroleineducationforbothchildrenandadults. However,thebudgetforSEGsistypicallylowerthantraditionalentertainmentvideogames,bringing withittheneedtooptimizethelearningexperience.Thisarticlelooksattherolegameimmersion playsinimprovinglearningoutcomes,usingtheRevisedGameEngagementModel(R-GEM)to det...

In this paper I put forward a concept of the imagination which weaves together many of the key and overlapping dichotomies around which discussions of the imagination have circled: dichotomies between the productive and reproductive, between presence and absence, between creativity or spontaneity and receptivity or passivity, between invention and disclosure, between cognition and affect. Inter...

Creative thinking requires imagination, creativity, play, sharing and reflection. This paper presents an architecture for a curious, reconfigurable robot that encourages creative design thinking by permitting designed structures to learn behaviours. These behaviours encourage designers to play with different structures, reflect on the relationship between structure and behaviour and imagine new...