AI and Design Inspiration
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AI is experiencing the third tide. Interests of a broad applications of AI are increasingly growing. This project aims to explore possibilities of AI supports for early design activities, e.g., idea finding, idea delivery and idea evaluation. We will study theories of inspiration mechanism in design, psychology, and design cognition. Besides, an experimental study would be conducted with HCI principles and methods for practical applications. Finally, (1) a framework of design ideation with AI will be built; (2) novel design supports will be designed for practical design ideation; and (3) implications of barriers and guidelines will be discussed.
Overview
The project is divided into three stages:
- Survey: Literature study on design, creativity and design methods and tools
- Development: Design novel design tools
- Hardware: PC, Nvidia 1080Ti, Sketchpad
- Software: Django, Pytorch
- Evaluation: System evaluation and User study (Questionnaire, Interview)
- Summary: Summarize research process and findings
An introduction of this project can be found at here
Example
Given a picture of a product sketch, the AI model generates numerous of possible product pictures:
Besides, given a picture of product, for example a suitcase, the AI model can explore different vairiants of this product with different shapes, colors, textures. etc.