Study on Representation Methods of Dynamic Visual Information for phtocol Analysis in Creative Thinking Process

本研究旨在发展协议分析方法来分析可用性测试中的缺陷，虽然协议分析方法是一种有效的分析方法，但它限制了研究对象的研究。例如，可以采用要求发声的方法发声，聋哑人、婴儿和老年人被认为难以分析协议，被排除在研究之外。为了超过所指出的研究方法的限制，本研究计划进行。对素描的分析是其中的一种方法。此外，话语分析还应辅之以动态视觉信息的分析。例如，手语必须提供重要信息才能理解思维过程。因此，本研究将设计过程作为创造性思维的过程，并从素描和行为中收集数据。为了收集数据，本研究采用了视频监控和观测技术。我们将行为分成几个部分，并用层次来表示思维过程。基于层次结构，提出了设计思维过程模型，并将其表示为时间线分数，利用时间线分数进行了设计实验，验证了协议分析中的表示方法。作为结果，我们发现了一些重要的元素，例如绘画前的活动，这些活动可以用肢体语言来表示。我们认为，通过对残疾人、婴幼儿和老年人的广泛观察，加深对创造性认知的理解，可以评估我们的研究试验对今后开展人类创造力研究的贡献。

This research aimed to develop the methods of protocol analysis which have been adopted to analyze the cagnitions in usability test.It had limited the subjects to research though it was effective as the analysis method. For instance, it was possible to utter to adopt the method of requiring uttering and the deaf-mute, the infant, and the elderly person were thought of difficult to analyze the protocols and excluded from the research.To exceed the limit of the research method pointed out, this research was planned. The analysis of the sketch is the one method. In addition, analysis of the utterance should to be supplemented with analyzing dynamic visual information. For example, sign language must be give important information to understand thinking process. Therefore, this research has focused on the design process as creative thinking process and gathered the data from sketches and behaviors. In order to gather data, video monitoring and observation technique have been adopted in this study. We divide the behaviors into some segments and made layers to represent thinking processes. Based on the layers structure, we have proposed the design thinking process models and we represented them as in the time line score, Using the time line score, we have carried out design experiments to verify the methods of representation in protocol analysis. As the results, we have found out some important elements, for example pre-drawing activities, which can be represented as body languages. We consider that our research trials could be evaluated of contribution in the future for developing studies on human creativity by observing people widely including the handicapped people, infants and senior people as to understand creative cognition deeper.