Sharing design perspectives through storytelling

Abstract

Design consists of analyzing scenarios and proposing artifacts, obeying the initial set of requirements that lead from initial to goal state. Finding or creating alternative solutions, analyzing them, and selecting the best one are expected steps in the designer's decision making process. Very often, not a sole designer, but a team of them is engaged in the design process, sharing their expertise and responsibility to achieve optimum projects. In a design team, most conflicts occur due to misunderstanding of one's assessment of specifications and contexts. Decision explanations play a key role in teamwork success. Designers are rational agents trained to follow rational methods. Acceptable justifications include value function, requirements, constraints, and criteria. Generally, explanations are delivered in a multimedia fashion, composed of text, graphics and gestures, to provide the audience the ability to perceive what was contextually imagined. The more spatial the reasoning is, the richer the explanation channel should be. This paper presents CineADD, a design explanation generation model based on cinema techniques such as animation, scripting, editing, and camera movements. The idea is to provide designers with a tool for describing the way their projects should be visually explained, as in a movie. Designers develop their projects in an active design document environment. Rationale is captured as a design model, so explanations can be generated instead of retrieved. The captured design model serves as a base to visually reconstruct design, giving emphasis and guidance by using movie storytelling techniques. CineADD was implemented for the domain of oil pipeline layout showing the feasibility of this approach. We expect CineADD to become a commodity attachable to any intelligent CAD system.

Effective visualisation of design versions: visual storytelling for design reuse

“…They propose two techniques: animation and frame-by-frame storytelling (the "comic book metaphor"). Garcia et al (2002) use animation to communicate multidisciplinary design perspectives by adopting cinema storytelling techniques. Thomas and Calder (2001) note the value that cartoon animation techniques can add to graphical user interfaces.…”

A method to explore strategies to communicate user experience through storyboards: an automotive design case study

“…We begin with a tool closely connected to storyboarding's roots in cinema and animation, CineADD (Garcia et al , 2002), which helps to avoid misunderstandings between design team members throughout a design process. Its main function is to provide a means of conveying complex ideas through transformation into easier-to-understand components.…”

Μεθοδολογίες Σχεδιασμού Βασιζόμενες Σε Τεχνικές Υπολογιστικής Νοημοσύνης Και Σε Προηγούμενη Σχεδιαστική Γνώση

“…Αναγνωρίζοντας τις δυσκολίες αυτές, αναπτύχθηκε μία σημαντική ερευνητική προσπάθεια [266,307] να ενισχυθεί η διαδικασία σχεδιασμού με τη συμμετοχή πολλαπλών σχεδιαστών και την εξαγωγή σχεδιαστικών λύσεων με χρήση της συνδυασμένης μοιραζόμενης σχεδιαστικής γνώσης. Στα πλαίσια αυτά προτάθηκαν κατάλληλες προσεγγίσεις για τη μοντελοποίηση της σχεδιαστικής διαδικασίας σε συνεργατικό περιβάλλον [96,134,146] και αναπτύχθηκαν πρακτικές για την εξαγωγή αποφάσεων/λύσεων μέσω της συνεργασίας της ομάδας σχεδιαστών [38,79,88,163,193,312]. Επίσης δημιουργήθηκαν συστημικά εργαλεία [17,46,69,254,293,330] που βασίζονται στα παραπάνω θεωρητικα πλαίσια και παράλληλα ενσωματώνουν τεχνολογίες διαχείρισης γνώσης/δεδομένων, διαδικτύου και επικοινωνίας [9,119,120,154,203,227,242,284,318], καθώς και τεχνολογίες υπολογιστικής νοημοσύνης [123,234,265].…”