CREATIVITY AND COGNITION 4, 13-16 Oct., 2002
Processes and Artefacts: Art, Technology and Science
An ACM SIGCHI International Conference
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| COMPUTATIONAL MODELS OF CREATIVE DESIGNING BASED ON SITUATED COGNITION |
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John S Gero Professor of Design Science, University of Sydney Visiting Professor of Design and Computation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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Situated cognition deals with the way humans construct their internal worlds and their interactions with the external world. This is in contradistinction to the notion that the world is "out there waiting to be modeled internally". Thus, one of the fundamental concepts of situated cognition is the notion that the world within which an individual operates is constructed by that individual. This world view affects how the individual sees the world and colours their responses.
This talk will present the foundational ideas and demonstrate the explanatory capabilities of a situated cognition-based approach to modelling behaviour and to the construction of computational systems. Computational models of creative designing will be introduced and the effects of building creative processes founded on these ideas will be presented and contrasted with non-situated approaches. The talk concludes with demonstrating computational models of creativity based on these ideas. |
| Biography |
John Gero is Professor of Design Science and co-director of the Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Sydney and a Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research is concerned primarily with design theory and artificial intelligence, and with cognitive models within the context of computer-based design.Ê His current research is on computational and cognitive modeling of design creativity, on the modeling of design as situated processes and on computational design agents. He has been a Visiting Professor of Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering and Architecture in the USA, UK, France and Switzerland.Ê In addition, John Gero carries on an international consultancy in the fields of technology policy and artificial intelligence/knowledge-based systems. He is the co-author or editor of 35 books and over 450 papers.
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