AdaptiveCAD: Shifting CAD Paradigm for Innovative and Creative Design

AdaptiveCAD：转变 CAD 范式以实现创新和创意设计

• 批准号: RGPIN-2019-07048
• 负责人: Zeng, Yong
• 金额: $ 3.35万
• 依托单位: Concordia University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=716090
• 关键词: AdaptiveCAD; Shifting; CAD; Paradigm; Innovative

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.

申请人研究的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。在本研究计划中，我们的目标是建立一个自适应的范例，自适应CAD，计算机辅助概念设计系统。这种自适应范式可以作为一个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，可以有效地支持创新设计过程。这一拟议方案基于两个假设： - 假设1（曾和程，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交替。 - 假设2（Nguyen and Zeng，2012）：设计创造力与设计师的心理压力通过倒U形曲线相关，其中心理压力由设计师的感知工作量和设计能力定义。 自适应CAD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，它将允许设计师和CAD系统在设计过程中进行协调和协作。在提出有效的AdaptiveCAD范例时，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系统进行通信？ Q3：什么是有效的AdaptiveCAD范例？ 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： O 1：探索设计师在概念设计过程中的情感和神经认知机制 O2：提出问题驱动的概念设计算法，以实现有效的设计师-CAD沟通 臭氧：为设计者在概念设计过程中对设计者的情感和认知状态做出适应性反应构建了一个自适应CAD范式 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系统对设计和制造业的支持达到另一个水平。提出的自适应CAD范例将使CAD系统成为真实的计算机辅助“设计”系统，而不是计算机辅助“绘图”和/或“数据管理”系统。