CHS: Small: C3DaR - Collection, Creation, and Collaboration for Engineering Design and Reflection

创新现在被认为是经济增长和国际竞争力的关键。虽然原型设计、制造甚至工程工作通常都外包给国外市场，但设计仍然是中国的一项重要产出。因此，必须通过新的设计概念、方法和工具来支持变革和创造性的设计思维，提高设计师的创新能力，特别是在工程领域。该项目的目标是开发和测试一个名为C3DaR（工程设计和反思的收集、创造和协作）的早期设计数字平台。C3DaR将通过应用计算机作为合作伙伴的模式来改变早期工程设计的创造性过程，在这种模式下，系统将成为设计师、工件和媒体之间伙伴关系的积极贡献者。作为该项目的一部分，研究、教育和传播工作将极大地促进设计范式的转变，以改善我们的国家。创意设计能力。早期工程设计的特点是非正式的、非结构化的、高度协作的工作过程，涉及多个参与者、不同形式的代表性媒体以及设计师和工件之间的大量交互。为了探索和评估支持设计的新方法，该项目包括三个研究流，对应于C3DaR中的3c。(i)收集包括帮助设计师在创作过程的早期阶段收集材料的机制。所提议的机制的例子包括用于收集灵感材料的web浏览器集成，用于将内容组合成多媒体蒙太奇的设计剪贴簿，以及用于组织和记录文本和分层思想的图表。（ii）创造包括帮助设计师制作和修改设计工件的技术。这些技术的例子包括文本和视觉提示，以指导设计师的草图过程，与朴素的物理引擎集成，以实现直观的草图到生活的设计方法，并自动完成2D草图，以实现快速的内容创建。协作包括使多个设计人员能够协调其共同努力，同时避免干扰并最大限度地提高其生产力的机制。例子包括允许类似社交媒体的讨论，标记和投票设计工件，动作手势和注释，以促进表达动态行为和集成的视觉冲突解决技术来协调团队。这个项目的贡献是开发和测试一个全新的工程早期设计过程，这个过程是由数字媒体支撑的，也与数字媒体密切相关。

Innovation is now recognized as critical to economic growth and international competitiveness. While prototyping, manufacturing and even engineering work are routinely outsourced to foreign markets, design remains a key output of the nation. It is therefore imperative to improve the innovative capacity of designers, particularly those in engineering, through new design concepts, methods and tools to support transformative and creative design thinking. The goal of this project is to develop and test a digital platform for early design called C3DaR (Collection, Creation and Collaboration for Engineering Design and Reflection). C3DaR will transform the creative process of early design for engineering by applying a computer-as-partner paradigm in which the system becomes as an active contributor to the partnership between designers, artifacts and media. The research, education and dissemination efforts conducted as part of this project will greatly facilitate a paradigm shift in design to improve our nation?s creative design capacity.Early design for engineering is characterized by informal, unstructured and heavily collaborative work processes involving multiple participants, disparate forms of representational media and a plethora of interactions between designers and artifacts. To explore and evaluate novel ways to support design, the project includes three research streams, corresponding to the 3 Cs in C3DaR. (i) Collection incorporates mechanisms to help designers gather materials in the early stages of the creative process. Examples of proposed mechanisms include web browser integration for collecting inspirational material, design scrapbooking for composing content into multimedia montages and diagramming for organizing and recording textual and hierarchical ideas. (ii) Creation encompasses techniques to help designers to make and modify design artifacts. Examples of such techniques include textual and visual prompting to guide the designer's sketching process, integration with a naive physics engine to enable an intuitive sketch-to-life design approach and auto-completion of 2D sketches to enable rapid content creation. (iii) Collaboration includes mechanisms to enable multiple designers to coordinate their combined efforts while avoiding interference and maximizing their productivity. Examples include allowing social-media-like discussion, tagging and voting for design artifacts, motion gestures and annotation to facilitate expressing dynamic behavior and integrated visual conflict resolution techniques to coordinate the team. The contribution of this project is to develop and test a radically new early design process for engineering that is scaffolded by, as well as closely intertwined with, digital media.