AIDG Topics - Fall 2003

The group meets on Thursdays at 1:00-2:00 pm in FL 246, Beckett Conference Room.

An introductory reading will be:

The web-based paper "Intelligent Computer-Aided Design"

Some introductory readings may be taken from:

D. C. Brown & W. P. Birmingham (Eds.), Special double issue of IEEE Expert on ``AI in Design'',
Vol. 12, No. 2 March/April 1997, and No. 3 May/June 1997.

Other papers will be distributed at the AIDG meetings and will also be available in the AIDG mailbox in the CS Dept. office.

Dates and topics for this semester are as follows:

Sept 11

Open Discussion about Creativity, and Creative Design.

Sept 18

Intelligent Computer-Aided Design (.html)

Sept 25

Selected reading from M.Boden 1990, 1994 or 2000.

Oct 2

Categorizing Creative Systems, by Geraint A. Wiggins.

Oct 9

Design, Analogy, and Creativity (.pdf)

Oct 16

Functional Reasoning in Design (.pdf)

Oct 23

Computer Models of Creativity, by Margaret A. Boden.

from "Handbook of Creativity", (Ed.) R. J. Sternberg, CUP, 1999.

Oct 30

Computer Models of Creativity, by Margaret A. Boden.

from "Handbook of Creativity", (Ed.) R. J. Sternberg, CUP, 1999.

Nov 6

Analysis of Creative Products: Review and Synthesis, by Susan P. Besemer & Donald J. Treffinger.

from "Creativity Assessment: readings and resources", (Eds.) G. J. Puccio & M. C. Murdock, The CEF Press, 1999.

Nov 13

(Postponed)

Experimental Studies of Creativity, by Mark A. Runco & Shawn O. Sakamoto.

from "Handbook of Creativity", (Ed.) R. J. Sternberg, CUP, 1999.

Nov 20

No meeting?

Nov 27

No meeting?

Dec 4

Open Discussion about how theories of Creativity can assist with design tool or methodology development.

Dec 11

No meeting?