The effects of GUI on users' creative performance in computerized drawing

Authors:
Stanislaw Zabramski;Vita Ivanova;Guo Yang;Nur Gadima;Rathakan Leepraphantkul
Affiliations:
Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden;Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden;Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden;Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden;Informatics and Media, Uppsala, Sweden
Venue:
Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimedia, Interaction, Design and Innovation
Year:
2013

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Abstract

This paper presents the results of an empirical comparative study investigating how the outcomes of a computerized figural creativity test are affected when the participants use two different versions of the Graphical User Interface (GUI) on a mouse-operated desktop PC. The results show that participants get insignificantly lower creativity scores with the elaborated GUI, contrary to the GUI that has no visual artifacts available and offers more similar user experience to pen and paper, even though they spend significantly more time on drawing with the elaborated one. That phenomenon is expected to contribute to the cumulative effect of GUI and input method noticed by previous research. That implies that creative drawing and testing should be carefully introduced into computer-based environments.