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A computational model of visual analogies in design

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Nancy J. NersessianAuthors Info & Claims

Cognitive Systems Research, Volume 10, Issue 3

Pages 204 - 215

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsys.2008.09.006

Published: 01 September 2009 Publication History

Abstract

We present an analysis of the work of human participants in addressing design problems by analogy. We describe a computer program, called Galatea, that simulates the visual input and output of four experimental participants. Since Galatea is an operational computer program, it makes specific commitments about the visual representations and reasoning it uses for analogical transfer. In particular, Galatea provides a computational model of how human designers might be generating new designs by incremental transfer of the problem-solving procedure used in previous design cases.

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