Observing the observers : a new experimental paradigm for the study of seeing and drawing

One way to study how people design is to understand how others observe them designing. I take a step towards this understanding by examining how people segment visual design events temporally, in other words, how they divide these events into smaller pieces. I developed a methodology to comparatively study how multiple observers segment design events. In order to test my methodology, I conducted an experiment. In this experiment, I compared different attributes of a design event to see if some attributes communicate more meaning than others. From the results of the experiment, I observed that the segmentation of the design event was affected more by the gestures of the designer than by the produced designs. My observations suggest computational principles that could be used to develop computational design assistants that better understand designers intentions.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2018

Author dc:creator

• Ozgirin, Ege

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Terry Knight and Patrick H. Winston.

• Architecture.
• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/115630

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/115630