Visual divergence in humans and computers
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Author(s)
Sosa, R
Rojas, N
Gero, JS
Xu, Q
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Studies of design creativity have underlined the importance of divergent reasoning and visual reasoning in idea generation. Connecting these two key design skills, this paper presents a model of divergent visual reasoning for the study of creativity. A visual divergence task called ShapeStorm is demonstrated for the study of creative ideation that can be applied to humans as well as computational systems. The model is examined in a study with human subjects, a computational stochastic generator, and a geometrical analysis of the solution space. The main significance of this task is that it offers a straightforward means to define a simple design task that can be used across research studies. Several scenarios for the application of ShapeStorm for the study of creativity are advanced.
Date Issued
2016-01
Date Acceptance
2015-11-01
Citation
Design Studies, 2016, 42, pp.56-85
ISSN
0142-694X
Publisher
Elsevier
Start Page
56
End Page
85
Journal / Book Title
Design Studies
Volume
42
Copyright Statement
© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This manuscript is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Identifier
file://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0142694X15000836
Subjects
Design Practice & Management
1203 Design Practice And Management
0806 Information Systems
Date Publish Online
2015-11-19