Hybrid design tools for conceptual design and design engineering processes : bridging the design gap : towards an intuitive design tool

Proc. Des. Soc.: Des. Conf.

2020

This paper presents a test bed for AI technology on the integration of creative AI (CAI) with hybrid design tools (HDTs). The objective is to build and develop tools and programs for creative people (e.g. designers, engineers) to use, whereby the artificial intelligence (AI) software acts as a creative collaborator rather than a mere tool. The goal is to find a set of guiding principles, metaphors and ideas that inform the development of a CAI praxis imbued with computational support tools, new theories, experiments, and applications. Results and findings are presented of early-stage research.

Section: Figure 1 the Friction Between Intention And Inference: Framed As Apparent Blind Spotsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The paper presents early-stage results and findings of data (i.e. input-output) generated during ideation and/or multiple design stages with the use of hybrid design tools and environment (HDTs, HDTE) (Wendrich, 2010(Wendrich, , 2016 and by intertwining these data sets with creative AI (CAI) to support and assist during DEP.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Creative Thinking: Computational Tools Imbued With Ai

Proc. Des. Soc.: Des. Conf.

2020

“…Also shown is the extension of the representation with various drawing modes and an exporter. The data visualization was thus easily expanded into a rudimentary creative hybrid design tool (HDT) [23,24,25,26] whereby created virtually 'glass-blow' 3-D shapes, could be further modified and iterated in for example Blender 3-D CAD software [27].…”

Section: The Aiff Setupmentioning

confidence: 99%

Airflow Interaction Interface: Playful 3-D CAD and Gaming

Volume 1B: 36th Computers and Information in Engineering Conference

2016

This paper describes the vision and development of a tangible user interface (TUI) that allows ‘glassblowing-like’ interaction (IA) with a computer. The premise is that human fidelity in exerting pressure and airflow (i.e. breathing, blowing) could stimulate intuition, creative processing, and affords unconventional human-computer interaction (UHCI). The ultimate goal is to find out how the potential of the human body can be used to design, develop and analyze new spatial interaction methods that surpass performance or application possibilities of currently available techniques. Multi-modal interactions are essential to computational processing whereby the human and machine are interconnected and coupled to enhance skills (analogue and digital), support rich performance, facilitate learning and foster knowledge in design and engineering processing. This paper describes the key concept of the TUI, the graphical user interface (GUI) and the data visualizer system. We illustrate the concept with a prototype system — the Air-Flow-Interaction-Interface (AFIF), testing and experimentation — to identify underlying research issues.

“…The layer structure of the instances keep the document stacks timed and historically linked. [1] The users move through the workspace interacting with traditional design tools, paper, photographic images and physical objects naturally and fluidly. However, digital data- The full control lies with the actor and the system assists in the creative process.…”

Section: Lfds Set Up and Functionalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The layertransparency, instant immediacy and active interaction in the physical and digital domain support the interaction, design flow and design processing. [1] The iterations made within the interaction mode can be sorted, stacked, structured, selected and synthesized in the review mode as shown in Figure 7. With a special devised num-pad, see Figure 8, the reviewing, choosing, tagging and selecting process by the users is afforded.…”

Section: Lfds Set Up and Functionalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

A Novel Approach for Collaborative Interaction With Mixed Reality in Value Engineering

ASME 2011 World Conference on Innovative Virtual Reality

2011

Design and engineering in real-world projects is often influenced by reduction of the problem definition, trade-offs during decision-making, possible loss of information and monetary issues like budget constraints or value-for-money problems. In many engineering projects various stakeholders take part in the project process on various levels of communication, engineering and decision-making. During project meetings and VE sessions between the different stakeholder’s, information and data is gathered and put down analogue and/or digitally, consequently stored in reports, minutes and other modes of representation. Results and conclusions derived from these interactions are often influenced by the user’s field of experience and expertise. Personal stakes, idiosyncrasy, expectations, preferences and interpretations of the various project parts could have implications, interfere or procrastinate non-functionality and possible rupture in the collaborative setting and process leading to diminished prospective project targets, requirements and solutions. We present a hybrid tool as a Virtual Assistant (VA) during a collaborative Value Engineering (VE) session in a real-world design and engineering case. The tool supports interaction and decision-making in conjunction with a physical workbench as focal point (-s), user-interfaces that intuit the user during processing. The hybrid environment allows the users to interact un-tethered with real-world materials, images, drawings, objects and drawing instruments. In course of the processing captures are made of the various topics or issues at stake and logged as iterative instances in a database. Real-time visualization on a monitor of the captured instances are shown and progressively listed in the on-screen user interface. During or after the session the stakeholders can go through the iterative time-listing and synthesize the instances according to i.e. topic, dominance, choice or to the degree of priority. After structuring and sorting the data sets the information can be exported to a data or video file. All stakeholders receive or have access to the data files and can track-back the complete process progression. The system and information generated affords reflection, knowledge sharing and cooperation. Redistribution of data sets to other stakeholders, management or third parties becomes more efficient and congruous. Our approach we took during this experiment was to [re]search the communication, interaction and decision-making progressions of the various stakeholders during the VE-session. We observed the behavioral aspects during the various stages of user interaction, following the decision making process and the use of the tool during the course of the session. We captured the complete session on video for analysis and evaluation of the VE process within a hybrid design environment.