Our society has witnessed major growth and innovation in technology. However, one of innovation’s fundamental aspects, designer creativity, is still largely unsupported by information technology (IT) tools. This paper establishes a bridge between efforts to use cyberinfrastructure to generate design alternatives and a designer’s ability to explore and evaluate concepts. The research presented provides a method of synthesizing a web-based representation of a product concept using information from a digital design repository, an automatic concept generator, and results from a clustering analysis. A visualization interface is developed to provide designers with multiple representations of product concepts. The development of this approach establishes a computing infrastructure to support an investigation into the effect of information technology on designer creativity and provides a foundation for the development of further support technology. The architecture is implemented and the result is illustrated with an example in order to show the capabilities of the approach.
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ASME 2010 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference
August 15–18, 2010
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Conference Sponsors:
- Design Engineering Division and Computers in Engineering Division
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978-0-7918-4411-3
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Exploring Automatically Generated Design Concepts Using Cyberinfrastructure
Aziz M. Naim,
Aziz M. Naim
University at Buffalo - SUNY, Buffalo, NY
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Kenneth W. English,
Kenneth W. English
University at Buffalo - SUNY, Buffalo, NY
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Kemper E. Lewis
Kemper E. Lewis
University at Buffalo - SUNY, Buffalo, NY
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Aziz M. Naim
University at Buffalo - SUNY, Buffalo, NY
Kenneth W. English
University at Buffalo - SUNY, Buffalo, NY
Kemper E. Lewis
University at Buffalo - SUNY, Buffalo, NY
Paper No:
DETC2010-28765, pp. 1191-1201; 11 pages
Published Online:
March 8, 2011
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Naim, AM, English, KW, & Lewis, KE. "Exploring Automatically Generated Design Concepts Using Cyberinfrastructure." Proceedings of the ASME 2010 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. Volume 3: 30th Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, Parts A and B. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. August 15–18, 2010. pp. 1191-1201. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2010-28765
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