D-Star: System Feature for Interacting with Alternatives

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DC I/O 2020 poster by ROBERT WOODBURY, AREFIN MOHIUDDIN, NILOOFAR KAZEMI, VAHID ZAHEDNEJAD, DOĞAN ERISEN.


Abstract

Designers rapidly make plentiful and available design representations as they work. We label such work patterns as "design dialog." We introduce key design elements for a new kind of interface to parametric modelers aimed at supporting such dialog and at capturing the design space it induces and demonstrate these with a prototype system D.Star. The interface is explicitly multi-state, that is, it supports access to and editing of multiple alternatives simultaneously. Multi-state interaction enables new types of design operators that take multiple alternatives as input and produce multiple alternatives as output. We demonstrate several new operators as examples of a much larger set of new operators made possible by the new system design.

Keywords

design exploration, design dialogue, design alternatives, computer aided design.

Keyphrases

selected alternative (50), parametric modeler (40), collection view (40)

Topics

Architecture, Assisted Design Decision Making, Computer-Aided Design (CAD), Data Visualization and Analysis for design, Design Support Systems, Engineering, Synthetic Data, Knowledge Graphs;

Reference

DOI: https://doi.org/10.47330/DCIO.2020.GAXC3484

Video Presentation: https://youtu.be/qChICIQ7m9E

Full text: Maciel, A. (Ed.), 2020. Design Computation Input/Output 2020, 1st ed. Design Computation, London, UK. ISBN: 978-1-83812-940-8, DOI:10.47330/DCIO.2020.QPRF9890