AdaptiveCAD: Shifting CAD Paradigm for Innovative and Creative Design

申请人的研究目标是通过发现创造力机制和创新设计工具来增强设计师的能力。在本研究项目中，我们的目标是为计算机辅助概念设计系统建立一个自适应范例，adaptiveCAD。这种自适应范式可以作为框架来设计各种设计师-计算机协调和协作的概念设计系统，从而有效地支持创意设计过程。该拟议计划建立在两个假设之上： - 假设1（Zeng and Cheng，1991）：设计推理遵循递归逻辑，其中设计问题、设计知识和设计解决方案相互变化。 - 假设2（Nguyen和Zeng，2012）：设计创造力通过倒U形曲线与设计师的精神压力相关，其中精神压力由设计师感知的工作量和设计能力来定义。 AdaptiveCAD 范式不会简单地用 CAD 系统中的新功能和技术取代设计师的工作；相反，它将允许设计人员和 CAD 系统在设计过程中进行协调和协作。提出有效的 AdaptiveCAD 范式将回答三个研究问题： Q1：设计师如何设计？ Q2：设计师如何与CAD系统沟通？ 问题 3：有效的 AdaptiveCAD 范例由什么构成？ 在回答这三个问题时，我们将重点关注以下三个短期研究目标： O1：在概念设计过程中发现设计师的情感和神经认知机制 O2：提出问题驱动的概念设计算法，以实现设计师与 CAD 之间的有效沟通 O3：为设计师构建AdpativeCAD范例，以在概念设计过程中自适应地响应设计师的情感和认知状态 这是实现申请人目标的一步：发现创造力机制并创建创造性设计工具。这项拟议的研究计划将使 CAD 系统对设计和制造行业的支持达到另一个水平。所提出的自适应CAD范例将使CAD系统成为真正的计算机辅助“设计”系统，而不是计算机辅助“绘图”和/或“数据管理”系统。

The goal of the applicant's research is to empower designer's capability by discovering creativity mechanisms and by innovating design tools. In this present research program, we aim to establish an adaptive paradigm, adaptiveCAD, for computer-aided conceptual design systems. This adaptive paradigm can be used as a framework to design various designer-computer coordinated and collaborative conceptual design systems that can effectively support the creative design process. This proposed program is founded on two postulates: - Postulate 1 (Zeng and Cheng, 1991): Design reasoning follows the recursive logic, where design problems, design knowledge, and design solutions change each other interpedently. - Postulate 2 (Nguyen and Zeng, 2012): Design creativity is related to designer's mental stress through an inverse U shaped curve, where the mental stress is defined by designer's perceived workload and design capability. The adaptiveCAD paradigm will not simply replace designer's work by new functions and technologies in a CAD system; instead, it will allow coordinated and collaborative efforts between designers and CAD systems during a design process. Three research questions will be answered in proposing the effective AdaptiveCAD paradigm: Q1: How does a designer design? Q2: How does a designer communicate with a CAD system? Q3: What constitute an effective AdaptiveCAD paradigm? In answering these three questions, we will be focused on the following three short-term research objectives: O1: to discover designer's affective and neuro-cognitive mechanism during the conceptual design process O2: to propose question-driven conceptual design algorithms for effective designer-CAD communications O3: to construct an AdpativeCAD paradigm for a designer to respond adaptively to the designer's affective and cognitive states during conceptual design process This is one step forward to realize the applicant's goal: discovering creativity mechanisms and creating creative design tools. This proposed research program will bring CAD systems to another level of support for the design and manufacturing industry. The proposed adaptiveCAD paradigm will make CAD systems real Computer-Aided “Design” systems instead of Computer-Aided “Drawing” and/or “Data management” systems.