Pilot: Increasing Creative Exploration with Computer Tools that Support Spontaneity & Embodiment

试点：利用支持自发性的计算机工具增加创造性探索

• 批准号: 0856084
• 负责人: Michael Neff
• 金额: $ 24.54万
• 依托单位: University of California-Davis
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-10-01 至 2013-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0856084&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Pilot; Increasing; Creative; Exploration; Computer

The goal of this project is to determine if tools that are designed to support spontaneity and embodiment can increase user creativity. Spontaneity and embodiment are key components of creative work in the arts, particularly in the ideation and exploration phases, but have been poorly supported in software. There is good evidence that their inclusion in computer tools has the potential to significantly increase creativity. In order to test this hypothesis, novel new computational tools will be developed for interactive sketching and animation. Two applications will be targeted: One, a system for free-form drawing and animation, allows users to interactively sculpt 3D images by moving tracked markers through space. These drawings can then be immediately animated by grabbing handles that are automatically fit to them and dragging these with 3D gestures. The second application will provide a more narrowly defined task: controlling the style of a walking animation. The user will be able to do this by making spatial gestures to define the parameters in a walking model. Both of these applications will be designed and evaluated to support spontaneity and embodiment. This work benefits society through the discovery of new insights into creativity and by the creation of new computer artifacts that support creative production. Members of the performance community will be included in the research, leading to cross-fertilization with a group not normally involved in technology development. Results will be published broadly and the research will also be demonstrated to the public through a theatre production, along with the press coverage likely to result from that. Both undergraduate and graduate students will participate in the research, including members of underrepresented groups, such as women. The results of the work will also be included in courses in computer science and digital production.

这个项目的目标是确定那些被设计来支持自发性和具体化的工具是否可以增加用户的创造力。自发性和具体化是艺术创造性工作的关键组成部分，特别是在构思和探索阶段，但在软件中支持得很差。有充分的证据表明，将其纳入计算机工具有可能大大提高创造力。为了验证这一假设，将开发新的计算工具，用于交互式草图和动画。两个应用程序将有针对性的：一个，自由形式的绘图和动画系统，允许用户通过移动跟踪标记通过空间交互式雕刻3D图像。然后，通过抓住自动适合它们的手柄并使用3D手势拖动这些手柄，可以立即对这些绘图进行动画处理。第二个应用程序将提供一个更狭义的任务：控制行走动画的风格。用户将能够通过做出空间手势来定义行走模型中的参数来做到这一点。这两个应用程序将被设计和评估，以支持自发性和体现。这项工作通过发现对创造力的新见解和创造支持创造性生产的新计算机工件来造福社会。性能界的成员将被纳入研究，从而与通常不参与技术开发的群体进行交流。研究结果将广泛发表，研究成果也将通过戏剧作品向公众展示，沿着的还有可能由此产生的新闻报道。本科生和研究生都将参与这项研究，包括代表性不足的群体，如妇女。这项工作的成果也将纳入计算机科学和数字制作课程。