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

该项目的目标是确定旨在支持自发性和具体化的工具是否可以提高用户的创造力。自发性和具象性是艺术创作的关键组成部分，特别是在构思和探索阶段，但在软件方面得到的支持很少。有很好的证据表明，将它们纳入计算机工具具有显著提高创造力的潜力。为了验证这一假设，将开发用于交互草图和动画的新的计算工具。两个应用程序将成为目标：一个是用于自由形式绘图和动画的系统，允许用户通过在空间中移动跟踪标记来交互地雕刻3D图像。然后，通过抓起自动适合它们的手柄并使用3D手势拖动这些图形，可以立即为这些图形设置动画。第二个应用程序将提供一个定义更狭隘的任务：控制行走动画的样式。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完成此操作。这两个应用程序的设计和评估都将支持自发性和具体化。这项工作通过发现对创造力的新见解以及通过创造支持创造性生产的新计算机制品来造福社会。表演界的成员将被纳入研究，导致与通常不参与技术开发的群体进行交叉受精。结果将被广泛发表，研究还将通过戏剧制作向公众展示，以及可能由此产生的媒体报道。本科生和研究生都将参与这项研究，包括女性等代表性不足的群体的成员。这项工作的结果还将被纳入计算机科学和数字制作的课程。

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.