Designers create inspirational mood boards to express their design ideas visually, through collages of images and text. They find appropriate images and reflect on them as they explore emergent design concepts. After presenting the results of a participatory design workshop and a survey of professional designers, we introduce SemanticCollage, a digital mood board tool that […]
Publication type: Conferences
Publication type: Conferences
Professional designers create mood boards to explore, visualize, and communicate hard-to-express ideas. We present ImageSense, an intelligent, collaborative ideation tool that combines individual and shared work spaces, as well as collaboration with multiple forms of intelligent agents. In the collection phase, ImageSense offers fluid transitions between serendipitous discovery of curated images via ImageCascade, combined text- […]
Publication type: Conferences
Design ideation is a prime creative activity in design. However, it is challenging to support computationally, because of its quickly evolving and exploratory nature. This paper studies cooperative contextual bandits (CCB) as a machine learning method for interactive ideation support. CCBs can learn to propose domain-relevant contributions and adapt their exploration/ exploitation strategy. We developed […]
Publication type: Conferences
Over the last decade, many new opportunities have emerged to support creativity and problem-solving in design by finding inspirational materials via the Internet. Online design communities such as those of Behance and Pinterest showcase portfolios and user-made artwork, and they offer support for designers’ day-to-day work to find and collect inspirational material. However, very little […]