Affect and Creative Performance on Crowdsourcing Platforms

AbstractA deeper understanding of creativity and design is essential for the development of tools to improve designers’ creative processes and drive future innovation. The objective of this research is to evaluate the effect of physical activity versus movement in a virtual environment on the creative output of industrial design students. This study contributes a novel assessment of whether the use of virtual reality can produce the same creative output within designers as physical activity has been shown to produce in prior studies. Eighteen industrial design students at the Georgia Institute of Technology completed nine design tasks across three conditions in a within-subjects experimental design. In each condition, participants independently experienced one of three interventions. Solutions were scored for novelty and feasibility, and self-reported mood data was correlated with performance. No significant differences were found in novelty or feasibility of solutions across the conditions. However, there are statistically significant correlations between mood, interventions, and peak performance to be discussed. The results show that participants who experienced movement in virtual reality prior to problem solving performed at an equal or higher level than physical walking for all design tasks and all designer moods. This serves as motivation for continuing to study how VR can provide an impact on a designer's creative output. Hypothesized creative performance with each mode is discussed using trends from four categories of mood, based on the combined mood characteristics of pleasantness (positive/negative) and activation (active/passive).

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Cultural Dynamism and Business Vitality in Medium-Sized Cities—Evidence and Proposals for Sustainable Development

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13137325 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (13) ◽

pp. 7325

Author(s):

Ana Isabel Escalona-Orcao ◽

Belén Sánchez-Valverde García ◽

Mª Cruz Navarro-Pérez ◽

Mariola Pinillos-García ◽

Alberto Conejos-Sevillano

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Positive Relationship ◽

Cultural Development ◽

Business Activity ◽

Cultural Performance ◽

Creative Performance ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Creative Cities ◽

Cultural Policies ◽

Business Data

This work uses tools recently designed to conduct analyses and proposals around the cultural development of medium-sized cities. The Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor model, or CCCM, is first applied to the 81 cities in Spain with between 50,000 and 100,000 inhabitants. We also refer to the UNESCO Culture/2030 Indicators, specifically indicator 8 (Cultural companies), to investigate whether cultural dynamism is related to business vitality in those cities. Our observation of the 29 CCCM indicators and the C3 index, which synthesizes cultural performance, is explained, and these data are complemented with cultural business data (on assets, benefits, and jobs) from a sample of 13,204 firms. The C3 index values reveal significant differences in the cultural and creative performance of the selected cities according to their location (metropolitan or non-metropolitan) and their administrative rank. Moreover, when comparing the C3 index with the indicators on business activity, evidence indicates a clear positive relationship between cultural dynamism and firm vitality. These results support the contribution of culture to the sustainable development of medium-sized Spanish cities and further establish the suitability of the tools used to assist cities in designing appropriate cultural policies.

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A Triangular Relationship of Visual Attention, Spatial Ability, and Creative Performance in Spatial Design: An Exploratory Case Study

Journal of Interior Design ◽

10.1111/joid.12194 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Joori Suh ◽

Ji Young Cho

Keyword(s):

Visual Attention ◽

Spatial Ability ◽

Creative Performance ◽

Exploratory Case Study ◽

Spatial Design ◽

Triangular Relationship ◽

Relationship Of

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Does Job Embeddedness Mediate the Effect of Resilience on Cabin Attendants’ Career Satisfaction and Creative Performance?

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13095104 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (9) ◽

pp. 5104

Author(s):

Aram Eslamlou ◽

Osman M. Karatepe ◽

Mehmet Mithat Uner

Keyword(s):

Structural Equation ◽

Career Satisfaction ◽

Job Embeddedness ◽

Performance Outcomes ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Future Research ◽

Conservation Of Resources ◽

Creative Performance ◽

The Impact

An increasing body of research suggests job embeddedness (JE) as a motivational variable influencing employees’ attitudinal and behavioral outcomes such as quitting intentions and task performance. Personal resources have been reported to affect JE and these outcomes. However, little work has investigated the antecedents and consequences of JE among cabin attendants. There is also a dearth of empirical research regarding the mechanism linking resilience to cabin attendants’ affective and performance outcomes. Therefore, drawing on conservation of resources and JE theories, we propose a conceptual model that examines the interrelationships of resilience, JE, career satisfaction (CSAT), and creative performance (CPERF). Moreover, the model explores JE as a mediator of the impact of resilience on CSAT and CPERF. These linkages were tested via data collected from cabin attendants and their pursers. The findings from structural equation modeling reveal that resilience boosts cabin attendants’ JE, CSAT, and CPERF. As predicted, JE is a mediator between resilience and CSAT. Our paper culminates with implications for theory and practice as well as future research directions.

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