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Visual divergence in humans and computers

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posted on 2023-06-09, 00:27 authored by Ricardo Sosa, Nicolas Rojas, John S Gero, Qinqi Xu
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.

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Publication status

  • Published

Journal

Design Studies

ISSN

0142-694X

Publisher

Elsevier

Volume

42

Page range

56-85

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  • Engineering and Design Publications

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2016-03-07

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