CAREER: Sketch-based Construction and Interaction with Geometric Content in Creative Design Environments

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。这个早期教师职业（Career）奖的研究目标是在创意设计环境中开发基于草图的构建和与几何内容互动的方法。该研究将开发方法，将设计师的概念草图转化为二维和三维几何数据，这些数据可以通过类似纸笔的界面轻松修改、模拟和优化。该研究将通过为工程产品早期设计阶段的形式创造和探索提供以人为中心的计算技术，从而提高设计创新的方法。将设计和实现从2D草图创建3D几何图形的方法，从笔触自动生成美学产品形式，以及通过监测用户与开发的计算工具的交互来捕获设计知识。如果成功，这项研究的结果将使设计师能够通过数字草图快速生成和评估复杂的产品形式，从而增强当前工业中的设计实践。这将提高设计探索和迭代的效率，这是技术创新的核心。通过简化表单的创建，新方法将能够更加流畅地集成当前传统工具不支持的风格和功能设计需求。由此产生的技术将对许多领域产生直接影响，包括产品设计、汽车设计、手术前规划和工程教育。该奖项的教育和推广活动将为工程专业的本科生和研究生提供跨学科的学习机会，并将有助于提高未被充分代表的群体和高中生对科学和工程的兴趣。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The research objective of this Early Faculty Career (CAREER) award is to develop methods for sketch-based construction and interaction with geometric content in creative design environments. The research will develop methods that can translate designers' conceptual sketches into 2D and 3D geometric data that can be readily modified, simulated and optimized through a pen-and-paper like interface. The research will result in methods that enhance design innovation by providing human-centric computational technology for form creation and exploration in the early design stages of engineered products. Methods will be designed and implemented for creating 3D geometry from 2D sketches, for automatically generating aesthetic product forms from pen strokes, and for capturing design knowledge by monitoring users' interaction with the developed computational tools.If successful, the results of this research will enhance current design practices in industry by enabling designers to rapidly generate and assess complex product forms via digital sketching. This will lead to greater efficiency in design exploration and iteration, which are central to technological innovation. By facilitating form creation, the new methodologies will enable a more fluid integration of stylistic and functional design requirements currently not supported by conventional tools. The resulting technology will have an immediate impacts in a number of fields including product design, automotive design, pre-surgical planning, and engineering education. The education and outreach activities of the award will provide interdisciplinary learning opportunities for undergraduate and graduate engineering students in computational design, and will help promote interest for science and engineering from underrepresented groups and high school students.