SGER Collaborative Research: VisualizeIT - Measuring the Impact of IT-Enabled Concept Generation on Designer Creativity

SGER 协作研究：VisualizeIT - 衡量 IT 支持的概念生成对设计师创造力的影响

• 批准号: 0840969
• 负责人: Daniel McAdams
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-01 至 2010-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0840969&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SGER; Collaborative; Research; VisualizeIT; Measuring

This project creates and evaluates new visualization techniques of models from a concept generator to stimulate the designer to generate concepts not originally posed by designer or computer. This technology is expected to enable the development of creative solutions to design problems that would otherwise go undiscovered. The three challenges to achieving effective visualization for enhancing creative design at the concept generation phase are: 1) how to cluster the many concept variants returned from an automated concept generation algorithm into a manageable set of representative concepts that spans the design alternative space; 2) how to visually represent the option space to the designer so that it enhances creativity; and 3) how to measure the impact of the visualization schemes on designer creativity. This exploratory research, if successful, offers the opportunity to transform how we design products and systems and how we guide any designer to a creative new product.

该项目创建并评估了从概念生成器的模型的新可视化技术，以刺激设计师生成最初由设计师或计算机提出的概念。这项技术有望使创​​造性解决方案的开发以设计原本未被发现的问题。在概念生成阶段增强创意设计的有效可视化的三个挑战是：1）如何将许多概念变体从自动化的概念生成算法返回到跨越设计替代空间的可管理的代表性概念集； 2）如何在视觉上代表设计师的期权空间，以增强创造力； 3）如何衡量可视化方案对设计师创造力的影响。如果成功的话，这项探索性研究提供了机会，可以改变我们如何设计产品和系统以及如何将任何设计师引导到创意新产品。