Creative Design Tools Research Articles

Exploring Movement-Modifier Facilitation in Movement-based Sports, Health, and Game Design

It can be daunting to ensure a movement flow that unleashes creativity when facilitating movement-based design activities that aim for play, games, sports, and technology domains. When incorporating movement in game design, it is vital to understand game and learning elements but equally movement and play elements because these are important motivational factors. To fully understand the play, sport, and physical activity aspects of movement-game design, we must investigate the world of physical activity and performance. As a part of the Erasmus+ project, MeCaMInD, the innovative design of Movement-Modifier cards was developed, intended as a tool in the facilitation process to engage participants in physical exploration, supporting, modifying, or tweaking movement-based design practices for an inclusive game and physical activity and performance design. The Movement-Modifiers is grounded in sports and health theories, creative design tools and methods. To harvest the Movement-Modifier’s tweaking creative potential, it is crucial to understand when and how to use them in the generative parts of a movement-based design process. Grounded in a phenomenological approach and based on a multiple case study, this paper explores how eight facilitators used the Movement-Modifiers to challenge and tweak the generative processes. The cases are 1) A two-day sports innovation camp for 80 K12 high school students, 2) A workshop on Inclusive exergame design with 15 participants at the Nordic Innovation Summit 2022, 3) A course teaching 65 sport bachelor students the creative acrobatic body performance design. Empirical data were generated using a combination of observations, video recordings, and interviews, and the phenomenological analysis was condensed into written facilitator narratives. We present Movement-Modifier facilitation strategies in three phases of movement-based design facilitation, illustrated on a continuum with the facilitator’s level of involvement on one axis and participation structure on the other. The facilitator’s role is multifaceted, and effective Movement-Modifier facilitation requires sensitivity, adaptability, and careful planning. The Movement-Modifiers should be seen as a tool to support the design process rather than the essence of it.

New Approaches for Textile Colouration and Surface Pattern Using Enzyme-based Biotechnology

The research presented in this paper gives an overview of a study which was undertaken to investigate the potential offered by the enzyme laccase (EC.1.10.3.2) as a creative design tool for innovative colouration and decorative surface pattern of textiles with a focus on providing sustainable alternatives to conventional processes used in industry. Research was conducted in two parts. The control (scientific) phase explored laccases potential for transforming a range of colourless aromatic compounds into coloured polymeric products via its reaction mechanism, and its ability to facilitate the colouration of most commonly used textile fibre types. Reaction processing parameters such as temperature, pH values, aromatic compound concentrations, and reaction times were investigated to achieve a diverse colour palette, ranging from light–medium to dark shades of blue, green, pink, purple, and yellow hues. Wool and nylon fibre types were found to be most suitable for laccase-catalyzed colouration. The creative phase investigated the design potential offered by the enzymatic colouration process developed; different and contrasting substantivity properties offered by various fibre types were exploited to produce shadow, reserve, and contrasting coloured effects on specially woven jacquard fabrics. The research demonstrates the potential offered by laccase as a transformative tool to replace conventional industrial colouration and surface pattern design processes with biological systems, which offer important advantages of simpler processing using milder conditions that eliminate additional chemical use and reduce energy consumption. The adoption of enzyme-based biotechnologies could help the textile industry transition towards a sustainable future.

Building for the Future, Together: A Model for Bringing Emerging Products to Market, Using Anticipatory Ethnography and Mixed Methods Research

Applied ethnography practitioners are often charged with learning from existing or potential customers, for a product that is either familiar to them or close in nature to what they have used before. There are particular challenges for emerging technologies, where the market is much less defined. Applied ethnography has the potential to help with predicting future market scenarios, honing the value proposition and product definition. Done well, these contributions help align siloed teams, resulting in better products being delivered to the right customers, faster. This case study will outline the approaches used across all product development stages for new creative design tools in the emerging field of immersive media – specifically, 3D and Augmented Reality. A collaboration model and best practices are offered, to guide practitioners to address both overt challenges (e.g., identifying which audiences to focus on), and hidden challenges (e.g., creating a human‐centered dialogue in an ambiguous, technology‐centered space).

Α path to our heart: Visual metaphors and “white” space in advertising aesthetic pleasure

Contemporary advertising is increasingly based upon the successful implementation of two creative design tools, visual metaphors, and “white” space. Yet, despite their established coexistence, there is not enough evidence on the mechanism that takes place to affect consumers’ attitude toward the ad (Aad). The present study builds on the scarce evidence on the combination of visual metaphors with “white” space to decipher the role of “white” space on the effectiveness of metaphoric advertising. A content analysis of 405 international print ads establishes the widespread use of visual metaphors (fusions) with extended “white” space (monochrome, in shades of grey). Based on Berlyne’s theory of aesthetic preference this study proposes a serial mediation model with novelty, arousal, aesthetic response, and pleasure as successive mediating factors on the impact of visual metaphors (and especially visual metaphors with “white” space) on Aad. Three between-subjects (two with a Greek sample and one with U.S. and U.K. sample) experiments provide solid evidence in support of the proposed model. The attested sequence of effects fire starts a discussion on the significant creative opportunities and the associated communication implications for both academics and practitioners. Supplemental data for this article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/02650487.2021.1914446 .

Creation of 3D printed fashion prototype with multi-coloured texture: a practice-based approach

ABSTRACT The use of three-dimensional printing is prevalent in many industries, including fashion industry. Three-dimensional printing has come into wide use in different industries including fashion industry. Fashion and textile designers adopt the 3D printing technology as their creative design tool, for example, when creating 3D printed garments, fabrics or fashion accessories. It can be predicted that 3D printing technology will be rapidly applied and it will play an important role in the fashion industry in the future. This research study aimed to develop a theoretical design process model specifically for the creation of a 3D printed fashion prototype with multi-coloured surface texture. By adopting the practice-based research methodology and the developed design process model with reference to the theories of 3D printing technologies, practical concept, physical prototyping techniques and corresponding evaluation of various design elements, an innovative 3D printed fashion prototype was finally produced.

The aesthetics of imperfection ; Glitch art in three-dimension forms as a creative design tool

Since computers depend on digits and their particular combinations, they explain, resolve, perform everything by numbers. This tendency leads to perfection since the user has to think too much about numbers, units, fractions, ratios, matrices, etc. and this premeditation lessens the likeliness of ending up with accidental developments. Those accidental actions are called “Glitch”.

The Same Person Is Never the Same: Introducing Mood-Stimulated Thought/Action Tendencies for User-Centered Design

How people think and act is influenced by their transient mood state. Different moods stimulate different (thought/action) tendencies, such as the tendency to be attentive (when cheerful), to be cautious (when anxious), or to be impatient (when agitated). To support an understanding of how mood can inform user-centered design, this paper reports an exploratory study that revealed the diverse scope of these mood-stimulated human tendencies. The questionnaire study (N = 43) examined the relationships between 20 moods and 68 distinct tendencies. Significant mood effects were found for all tendencies, indicating that different moods are associated with different tendencies. A Correspondence Analysis generated a visual overview of these relationships. In addition, a Factor Analysis found nine generic dimensions of mood-stimulated tendencies. In user-centered design, these results can support communications about user mood with team-members, end-users and other stakeholders. Based on the study results, a creative design tool is introduced. It aims to enable designers and service providers to become better aware of, and adequately respond to, the dynamics of mood-stimulated user preferences, feelings, and actions during the design process.

An experience on analogy and metaphor: Creative design tools to increase students’ creativities

There is a consensus that form borrowing and visual metaphor inspire architects. Traditional architecture like other design domain grow on the absence of non-visual features and architects tend to think, know and work in visual way. The aim of this paper is to indicate the capability of a design approach based on the usage of analogy and metaphors to increase architecture students creativities on the first year. What is unique on this experience is the usage of abstract concepts instead of images. During four weeks, students experienced to find a design solution to the following question: “Do abstract concepts and geometrical shapes  (euclidian and non-euclidian) and colors may influence architect? Instead of visual images as reference forms they tried to use verbal stimuli. Then, by using these verbal stimuli, they created three dimentional model. This studio-based experience showed us that analogy and metaphor are powerful tools to increase students’ creativity even visual stimuli were not used. Additionally, the tendancy to use haptic solutions are distinguished among the students who have already performed sensory perception.   Keywords: Analogy, metaphor, abstract concepts, architecture, verbal stimuli.  &nbsp

Mapping: A Speculative and Creative Design Tool

Mapping is a technique used to record and represent information graphically. In the studios made for architecture and landscape architecture, mapping is usually conducted at the Inventory-making and Analysis stage. Data from the site is gathered and documented for further investigation. However, mapping can also become a creative tool to ‘reveal’ certain things or invisible processes. It can encourage the designers to speculate the site and the design from different perspectives and at multiple scales. This paper discusses some mapping projects that have been explored by the authors through their research projects. The aim of this paper is to recommend mapping as a creative and speculative design tool that can make data more engaging to design thinking.

Creativity-based design innovation environment in support of robust product development

In today’s highly demanding customers and aggressive competitors, product development is getting more complex and needs to innovate continuously. On the other hand common direction towards cost savings and shortening of design cycle forces to make the product design process highly efficient at high level of performance. Accordingly, this paper provides a new creative design tool to support robust product development by taking advantage of a creativity-based design process to achieve the goals of innovative product design. It describes a pilot prototype of software system used for computer-aided product development which has been developed based on the characteristics of the product design process, integrating the creative thinking methods, information technologies and computer application technologies (CAD system, LabVIEW, Game Technology, etc.). This new design environment leads to a flexible working flow of designing a product hand in hand with searching a product library that is arranged by geometric properties and allows designers, engineers and other professionals to collaborate with each other on the same platform in the product development process.

A novel engineering tool for creative design of fluid systems

Computational fluid dynamics is not often used early in the conceptual design stage of product development due to the lengthy computation times involved with solving complex computational fluid dyn...

A knowledge-based system for enhancing conceptual design

This paper presents a knowledge-based system to enhance creative conceptual design. Market globalisation and technology advances require fast adaptation to customer needs by being creative and competent. Current practices in design constituted the basis for the developed Creative Design Tools (CDTs) system architecture. The developed system provides users with and integrated and flexible creative design environment to enhance their creative conceptual thinking. Such design environment requires the integration of many components namely: design process, creative tools and design knowledge within a highly collaborative interactive human-computer interface. The CDT system was implemented as a web application, which was integrated with various creative methods.

Creative design tools (CDT): stimulating creative design thinking

This research paper presents a knowledge-based system for creative design tools (CDT). The developed system provides designers with a creative design environment to enhance their design thinking. Several creative thinking tools and techniques are grouped, developed, and incorporated with various constructive knowledge databases which can widen the designer's knowledge and search skills in the process of design creation. CDT embodies: a user interface, five design modules, creativity tools, knowledge databases, and computer-aided design (CAD) tool. The main aim of the system is to enhance creative design thinking by providing various tools and constructive knowledge databases which can be expanded each time the designer uses the system. The system differs from conventional tools in that it is structured to incorporate creativity tools with knowledge databases needed by the designers in a user friendly environment. A case study is discussed and demonstrated to validate the proposed system.

Introduction. Computational aerodynamics

The wide range of uses of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) for aircraft design is discussed along with its role in dealing with the environmental impact of flight. Enabling technologies, such as grid generation and turbulence models, are also considered along with flow/turbulence control. The large eddy simulation, Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes and hybrid turbulence modelling approaches are contrasted. The CFD prediction of numerous jet configurations occurring in aerospace are discussed along with aeroelasticity for aeroengine and external aerodynamics, design optimization, unsteady flow modelling and aeroengine internal and external flows. It is concluded that there is a lack of detailed measurements (for both canonical and complex geometry flows) to provide validation and even, in some cases, basic understanding of flow physics. Not surprisingly, turbulence modelling is still the weak link along with, as ever, a pressing need for improved (in terms of robustness, speed and accuracy) solver technology, grid generation and geometry handling. Hence, CFD, as a truly predictive and creative design tool, seems a long way off. Meanwhile, extreme practitioner expertise is still required and the triad of computation, measurement and analytic solution must be judiciously used.

528 ダイナミックシンキングCAE : 機能から構造へのシンセシス(CAE・構造最適化,OS-15:最適設計)

Recently, the concept of realizing product needs the high level creativity of the rapid application for demanding the changes and the varieties of the value. It is demanded to ascertain the true characteristic of the desirable structure with a big fault of the process which finds the structure of the high originality from the function design. CAE technology is usually used in many cases in the structure design process. But, there are a few CAE tools using to create the high originality structure design from the function design. This paper is described "the high originality structure design" for the creative design tool. The visualizing CAE simulation results and many kinds of visual thinkings support the more creative

ISTAR — a tool for creative design of knowledge bases

AbstractThis paper gives a comprehensive explanation of the Istar knowledge representation software tool. Not only does it describe the features and facilities found in Istar, but it discusses why they are as they are.Istar is one of a new generation of knowledge representation tools, aimed at ill‐structured domains of knowledge. While it can be used in traditional KBS projects, in which pieces of knowledge from a domain expert are assembled to form a working knowledge base, it is designed for situations in which there is a large element of creative design: knowledge refinement and generation resulting from the knowledge representation process.The knowledge representation ‘language’ is purely graphical; the knowledge engineer ‘draws’ knowledge on an easel as a box and arrows diagram. Behind this diagram is the knowledge base itself, in the form of integrated inference nets, Bayesian nets and semantic nets. This paper discusses the reasons for these design choices and, briefly, some of the issues faced in development of Istar.

Interactive Evolution: A Prototyping Framework for Engineering

Abstract: Interactive evolution is a powerful method combining the strength of simulated evolution with the judgment of a human user. This technique can serve as a useful tool for achieving flexibility and complexity in architectural design and civil engineering applications. Operators such as recombination, mutation, and expansion are used to evolve variations and improvements on an existing set of models with only a moderate amount of user input and detailed knowledge. One of the main advantages of this method is that it has the potential to optimize a preferred model and to produce many variations from a limited dataset of models. In addition, since it generates constrained variants reflecting the user's preferences, it provides both the architect and engineer with a creative design tool. I present the IDEA system, an interactive X‐window tool, for this purpose. This method is exemplified within an architectural design situation through the design of houses, bridges, and urban planning.

Field-testing the new DECtalk PC system for medical applications.

Synthesized human speech has now reached a new level of performance. With the introduction of DEC's new DECtalk PC, the small system developer will have a very powerful tool for creative design. It has been our privilege to be involved in the beta-testing of this new device and to add a medical dictionary which covers a wide range of medical terminology. With the inherent board level understanding of speech synthesis and the medical dictionary, it is now possible to provide full digital speech output for all medical files and terms. The application of these tools will cover a wide range of options for the future and allow a new dimension in dealing with the complex user interface experienced in medical practice.