VR'04

Visual and Spatial Reasoning in Design III

 


Edited by
John S. Gero, Barbara Tversky and Terry Knight

Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition
University
of Sydney

ISBN 1-86487-132-6, 283pp

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LIST OF CONTENTS

Preface

vii

 

 

SESSION ONE

1

Engineering design in a different way: A cognitive perspective on the contact & channel model approach
Alber Albars, Manfred Ohmer and Claudia Eckert

3

Conceptual design from Geons – An interactive evolution approach
Amitabha Mukerjee and Hemant Muley

23

Heuristic methods and hierarchical graph grammars in design
Grazyna Slusarczyk

45

SESSION TWO

67

Sketches for and from collaboration
Julie Heiser, Barbara Tversky and Mia Silverman

69

Sketching across design domains
Claudia Eckert, Alan Blackwell, Mark Stacey and Chris Earl

79

SESSION THREE

103

Critiquing freehand sketching: A computational tool for design evaluation
Yeonjoo Oh, Ellen Do and Mark Gross

105

Analysis of a blindfolded architect’s design session
Zafer Bilda and John S Gero

121

SESSION FOUR

137

Qualitative representation and reasoning in design: A hierarchy of shape and spatial languages
Julie Jupp and John S Gero

139

Developing an ontology of spatial relations
Jane Brennan, Eric A Martin and Mihye Kim

163

Spatial motifs in design
Janice Glasgow, Susan Epstein, Nathalie Meurice, Andy Becue and Daniel Vercauteren

183

SESSION FIVE

197

Design problems are not of a kind: Differences in the effectiveness of visual stimuli in design problem solving
Gabriela Goldschmidt and Maria Smolkov

199

Cognitive analyses and creative operations
Mine Ozkar

219

SESSION SIX

231

Visual analogy: Viewing retrieval and mapping as constraint satisfaction problems
Patrick Yaner and Ashok Goel

233

Aspectualize and conquer in architectural design
Sven Bertel, Christian Freska and Geroge Vrachliotis

255

CONTACT AUTHORS EMAIL ADDRESSES

281

AUTHOR INDEX

283

 

Conference Information

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