LIVEIA: A Light-Based Immersive Visualization Environment for Imaginative Actualization

This paper describes an immersive and interactive visualization environment that uses light as a metaphor for psychological phenomena. Creative life force is portrayed as ambient light, and people´s psyches are represented by spheres that amplify and transform light. Personality characteristics, situations, and relationships are systematically depicted using a systematic visual language based on the properties of light and how it interacts with physical objects. The technology enables users to visualize and creatively experiment with light-based representations of themselves and others, including patterns of interaction and how they have come about, and how they could change and unfold in the future.