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Creative Sketching Apprentice: Supporting Conceptual Shifts in Sketch Ideation

Authors: Karimi, P., Grace, K., Davis, N., & Maher, M. L.

Paper Abstract:"Sketching in design is typically a part of the ideation process. A common occurrence in sketching creativity is the conceptual shift, or when a drawn object is re-interpreted as belonging to a different object category. Conceptual shifts are known to be an instrumental component of some creative processes. This paper presents the Creative Sketching Apprentice (CSA) that reinterprets sketches drawn by a user and proposes conceptual shifts, and the paper describes recent work in the field of augmented sketching, including the Drawing Apprentice, an earlier version of the CSA. The contribution of this paper is a computational approach using a convolutional neural network model for classifying sketched objects to identify potential conceptual shifts. This approach is described as the Creative Sketching Apprentice and demonstrated through a case study that illustrates conceptual shifts in a design context. The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications of this approach for a co-creativity system in design sketching." ( Karimi et al., 2018)

Karimi, P., Grace, K., Davis, N., & Maher, M. L. (2018, July). Creative sketching apprentice: Supporting conceptual shifts in sketch ideation. In International Conference on-Design Computing and Cognition (pp. 721-738). Springer, Cham.