I am sorry about my bad language, what I mean is the possibility of
measuring the creativity that links to a designer's knowledge
about hers/his personal expert that included cultural and
individual experience, is it possible? Can any discipline explain what a
designer is?
Regards in advance,
Ayca
10 Mayıs 2014 Cumartesi tarihinde, ayça Durmaz <[log in to unmask]> yazdı:
> Dear all,
>
> Is it possible to measure creativity? Applying or integrating data to
> system is it possible?
>
> Best and kindly regards
>
> Ayca
>
> 9 Mayıs 2014 Cuma tarihinde, Terence Love <[log in to unmask]<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml',[log in to unmask]);>>
> yazdı:
>
> Dear Gunnar,
>
> As always I'm impressed by your erudition and detail. Seriously! From now
> on, I'd be grateful if you would write my posts for me.
>
> Yes, you detailed the events of that period beautifully. Yes, the issue of
> who exactly are 'design staff' is a problem. Currently the employment
> statistics people don't seem to distinguish very much between designers and
> sweeper uppers of the print room.
>
> Your suggestion for AI of graphics for logos may be already at least
> partly
> in place with things like smart draw tools which convert sketches into
> regular aligned shapes, in much the same way that Garageband converts an
> out
> of time music riff into a regularised form.
>
> Two references from MIT review as you requested, the second is probably
> the
> more interesting:
>
> http://www.technologyreview.com/news/428437/can-creativity-be-automated/
>
>
> http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/515926/how-technology-is-destr
> oying-jobs/<http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/515926/how-technology-is-destroying-jobs/>
>
> You might also enjoy
> http://www.magisto.com/how-it-works
>
> On the layers of abstractions stuff, apologies, I guess its not the way
> people think on this list, I'll work out a good physical example to show
> it better. I tend to design in abstraction language which is great for
> many
> areas of design to get beyond thinking about the physical. (and looking at
> the dynamics of design variety is a really useful napkin design tool).
>
> Enjoyed your stories about the quemma and other novel punctuation. I'd
> thought they were also the sorts of things in the realms of novel computer
> creativity? I remember creating software in the 1970s to optimise the
> design of a mixed material bridge design. It was a university competition
> and I thought by inventing a computer optimisation we might clean up (if I
> remember right we did). What was more amazing to me, was that software
> identified several novel solutions for bridge designs that were clearly
> effective and totally different to the model that had been the basis for
> the
> optimisation software. That was an early example of computer-based
> creativity that went beyond what was put into the computer.
>
> More recently, an IBM Watson has been let loose on creative cooking. . .
> http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/cognitivecooking/
>
> http://www.research.ibm.com/software/IBMResearch/multimedia/Cognitive-Cookin
> g-Fact-Sheet.pdf<http://www.research.ibm.com/software/IBMResearch/multimedia/Cognitive-Cooking-Fact-Sheet.pdf>
>
> This more follows the big data approach that Ken raised.
>
> PS finding roles for your at-persand and at-percent symbols sounds like
> exactly an ontology algorithm problem. Ask IBM to ask Watson - but turn off
> the urban dictionary first!
>
> Best wishes and thanks ,
> Terry
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask]
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Gunnar Swanson
> Sent: Friday, 9 May 2014 4:30 AM
> To: PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD studies and related
> research in Design
> Subject: Re: Why designers need maths
>
> On May 8, 2014, at 8:59 AM, Terence Love <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > An example, in the late 1990s, large graphic design firms cut their
> > design staff by around 75% and at the same time were able to increase
> > output. In that case, the reduction in staff and increase in outputs
> > were mainly due to the increased productivity enabled by products from
> > Quark Express, Macromedia and Adobe.
>
> This doesn't track with my memory of the graphic design business (at least
> in the US.) The cuts were earlier, those not attributable to economic
> downturns were not as deep, and the nature of the cuts was not exactly as
> you describe. Or at least not neatly so.
>
> The first big wave of job destruction was at suppliers for design firms.
> Typesetters and 'stat houses disappeared except for the few that converted
> to computer graphics service bureaus and produced film from designers
>
>
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