Two-Day Workshop: Studying Visual and Spatial Reasoning in Design Creativity

问题：视觉和空间推理通常在设计创意中起着关键作用，最明显的是通过素描、图表、可视化和视觉图像。视觉和空间推理在多个学科中都有研究，但很少关注设计创造力。有必要将这一研究应用到设计创意中以改进它。提案：本次研讨会汇集了来自设计科学、计算机科学、认知科学和神经科学等学科的主要研究人员，他们对与设计创造力相关的视觉和空间推理进行了研究，旨在定义最先进的技术，并为与设计创造力相关的跨学科活动提供机会。研讨会的形式允许集中讨论和小组工作的研究议程和重大挑战。演讲是讨论的催化剂，而不是主要焦点。为了加强国际合作，讲习班在法国举行。同时邀请各领域博士研究生各一名。智力优势：这四门学科中的每一门都是孤立地研究视觉和空间推理，而不关注设计创造力。将这些不同领域的研究人员聚集在一起，为跨学科研究提供了机会。将设计作为研究的重点，将使我们获得视觉和空间推理过程的知识，从而产生关于设计创造力的新知识。讲习班的一项持久成果将是档案记录，预计将由b施普林格出版。更广泛的影响：设计创意是产品和流程转型的关键。本次研讨会的成果将为设计创造力中的视觉和空间推理研究议程的发展奠定基础，并为提高设计师创造力的教育议程提供基础。其目的是发展国际研究合作。学习视觉和空间推理产生设计创造力的知识。从研究设计创造力中获得的知识有可能成为创造性设计的新型支持工具的基础。关注多样化和包容性的讨论者群体，关注社会影响的设计，以及计划更大的会议也是会议的要素。

Proposal Number: IIS - 0907889PI: John GeroInstitution: George Mason UniversityThe Problem: Visual and spatial reasoning often play pivotal roles in design creativity, most noticeably through sketching, diagrams, visualization and visual imagery. There is research on visual and spatial reasoning in multiple disciplines but very little is focused on design creativity. There is a need to bring this research to bear onto design creativity to improve it. The Proposal: This Workshop brings together the leading researchers from the disciplines that carry out research into visual and spatial reasoning of relevance to design creativity: design science, computer science, cognitive science, and neuroscience in order to define the state-of-the-art and to produce the opportunity for transdisciplinary activity related to design creativity. The workshop format allows a focus on discussion and groups work on research agendas and grand challenges. Presentations are catalysts for discussion rather than the primary focus. To improve international collaboration, the workshop is held in France. One doctoral student from each area is also invited. Intellectual Merit: Each of the four sciences studies visual and spatial reasoning in isolation without a focus on design creativity. Bringing together researchers from these different communities provides opportunities for transdisciplinary research. Making designing the focus is expected to result in knowledge about processes for studying visual and spatial reasoning that will produce new knowledge about design creativity. One enduring output of the workshop will be archival proceedings, expected to be published by Springer. Broader Impact: Design creativity holds the key to transformational products and processes. The outcomes of this workshop will form the basis of the development of a research agenda for visual and spatial reasoning in design creativity and provide the basis for an education agenda to improve the creativity of designers. The aim is to develop international research collaborations. Studying visual and spatial reasoning produces knowledge of design creativity. The knowledge derived from studying design creativity has the potential to form the foundations of new kinds of support tools for creative designing. Attention to a diverse and inclusive group of discussants, attention to design for social impact, and plans for a larger conference are also elements of the meeting.