Papers by Joana Rovira Martins
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC’24, 2024
During the creative process, visual exploration can facilitate brainstorming. Today's designers t... more During the creative process, visual exploration can facilitate brainstorming. Today's designers tend to rely on digital references, often biased by digital culture, which may limit the exploration of diverse sources. This paper focuses on a specific design product: graphic patterns. We present PatternPursuit, an ideation system that allows designers to explore recognised pre-digital design work on a conceptual and visual level and, using its visual elements, produce graphic patterns for wrapping paper. The system employs Interactive Evolutionary Computation, Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision techniques to establish a connection between user introduced concepts and the design pieces available in the system knowledge base and thus develop graphic patterns. We conducted a study with design experts to assess the quality of the solutions produced by the system and understand aspects related to originality, the influence of the references on the produced patterns and the impact of the constituent elements and composition on the design process. The results show that the system offers an alternative approach to creating novel wrapping papers that maintains a connection to the style of the reference designer. We have explored the importance of integrating historical design practices with contemporary tools to promote creativity and diversity in design outcomes.
Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 479. pp 313–326 Springer, 2023
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Papers by Joana Rovira Martins