AdaptiveCAD: Shifting CAD Paradigm for Innovative and Creative Design

AdaptiveCAD：转变 CAD 范式以实现创新和创意设计

• 批准号: RGPIN-2019-07048
• 负责人: Zeng, Yong
• 金额: $ 3.35万
• 依托单位: Concordia University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=716090
• 关键词: AdaptiveCAD; Shifting; CAD; Paradigm; Innovative

The goal of the applicant's research is to empower designer's capability by discovering creativity mechanisms and by innovating design tools. In this present research program, we aim to establish an adaptive paradigm, adaptiveCAD, for computer-aided conceptual design systems. This adaptive paradigm can be used as a framework to design various designer-computer coordinated and collaborative conceptual design systems that can effectively support the creative design process. This proposed program is founded on two postulates: - Postulate 1 (Zeng and Cheng, 1991): Design reasoning follows the recursive logic, where design problems, design knowledge, and design solutions change each other interpedently. - Postulate 2 (Nguyen and Zeng, 2012): Design creativity is related to designer's mental stress through an inverse U shaped curve, where the mental stress is defined by designer's perceived workload and design capability. The adaptiveCAD paradigm will not simply replace designer's work by new functions and technologies in a CAD system; instead, it will allow coordinated and collaborative efforts between designers and CAD systems during a design process. Three research questions will be answered in proposing the effective AdaptiveCAD paradigm: Q1: How does a designer design? Q2: How does a designer communicate with a CAD system? Q3: What constitute an effective AdaptiveCAD paradigm? In answering these three questions, we will be focused on the following three short-term research objectives: O1: to discover designer's affective and neuro-cognitive mechanism during the conceptual design process O2: to propose question-driven conceptual design algorithms for effective designer-CAD communications O3: to construct an AdpativeCAD paradigm for a designer to respond adaptively to the designer's affective and cognitive states during conceptual design process This is one step forward to realize the applicant's goal: discovering creativity mechanisms and creating creative design tools. This proposed research program will bring CAD systems to another level of support for the design and manufacturing industry. The proposed adaptiveCAD paradigm will make CAD systems real Computer-Aided “Design” systems instead of Computer-Aided “Drawing” and/or “Data management” systems.

申请人的研究目标是通过发现创造力机制和创新设计工具来增强设计师的能力。在本研究项目中，我们的目标是为计算机辅助概念设计系统建立自适应范例。用作设计各种设计师计算机协调和协作概念设计系统的框架，该系统可以有效地支持创意设计过程。该程序基于两个假设： - 假设1（Zeng and Cheng，1991）：设计推理遵循递归逻辑，其中设计问题、设计知识和设计解决方案相互变化。 - 假设2（Nguyen和Zeng，2012）：设计创造力通过倒U形曲线与设计师的精神压力相关，其中精神压力由设计师感知的工作量和设计能力来定义。 AdaptiveCAD 范例不会简单地用 CAD 系统中的新功能和技术取代设计师的工作；相反，它将允许设计师和 CAD 系统在设计过程中协调和协作，从而提出有效的 AdaptiveCAD 范例。 : Q1：设计师如何设计？ Q2：设计师如何与CAD系统沟通？ 问题 3：什么构成了有效的 AdaptiveCAD 范例？ 在回答这三个问题时，我们将重点关注以下三个短期研究目标： O1：在概念设计过程中发现设计师的情感和神经认知机制 O2：提出问题驱动的概念设计算法，以实现设计师与 CAD 之间的有效沟通 O3：为设计师构建AdpativeCAD范例，以在概念设计过程中自适应地响应设计师的情感和认知状态 这是实现申请人目标的一步：发现创造性机制并创建创造性设计工具。所提出的研究计划将把 CAD 系统提升到对设计和制造行业的另一个支持水平。所提出的自适应 CAD 范式将使 CAD 系统成为真正的计算机。 -辅助“设计”系统而不是计算机辅助“绘图”和/或“数据管理”系统。