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: 0848244
• 负责人: Matthew Campbell
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 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=0848244&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.

本项目通过概念生成器创建并评估模型的新可视化技术，以刺激设计师生成最初不是由设计师或计算机提出的概念。这项技术有望为设计问题提供创造性的解决方案，否则这些问题将无法被发现。在概念生成阶段实现有效可视化以增强创意设计的三个挑战是：1)如何将自动化概念生成算法返回的许多概念变体聚类为一组可管理的、跨越设计备选空间的代表性概念；2)如何将选项空间直观地呈现给设计师，从而增强创意；3)如何衡量可视化方案对设计师创造力的影响。这项探索性研究，如果成功，将为我们如何设计产品和系统，以及如何指导任何设计师设计创造性的新产品提供机会。