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

该项目创建和评估概念生成器中模型的新可视化技术，以刺激设计师生成最初不由设计师或计算机提出的概念。这项技术有望开发出创造性的解决方案来解决设计问题，否则这些问题将无法被发现。在概念生成阶段实现有效的可视化以增强创意设计的三个挑战是：1）如何将从自动概念生成算法返回的许多概念变体聚类成跨越设计备选空间的可管理的代表性概念集合; 2）如何将选项空间可视化地呈现给设计师以增强创意; 3）如何衡量可视化方案对设计师创造力的影响。这种探索性的研究，如果成功的话，提供了一个机会来改变我们设计产品和系统的方式，以及我们如何引导任何设计师创造一个创造性的新产品。

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.