Journal article
Visual divergence in humans and computers
Design studies, v 42, pp 56-85
01 Jan 2016
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. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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- Title
- Visual divergence in humans and computers
- Creators
- Ricardo Sosa - Auckland University of TechnologyNicolas Rojas - Yale UniversityJohn S. Gero - George Mason UniversityQinqi Ku - Singapore Univ Technol & Design, Singapore 138682, Singapore
- Publication Details
- Design studies, v 42, pp 56-85
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Number of pages
- 30
- Grant note
- 1400466 / Directorate For Engineering; National Science Foundation (NSF); NSF - Directorate for Engineering (ENG) CMMI-1400466 / US National Science Foundation; National Science Foundation (NSF) IDG31200110 / SUTD-MIT International Design Centre grant
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences (Psychology)
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000368208200003
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84947555285
- Other Identifier
- 991022157477304721