Hideaki Takeda's Publication
- H. Takeda, H. Sakai, Y. Nomaguchi, M. Yoshioka,
Y. Shimomura and T. Tomiyama: Universal Abduction Studio -- Proposal of a
Design Support Envrionment for Creative Thinking In Design --, in A. Folkman,
K. Gralen, M. Norell and U. Sellgren eds., The Fourteenth International
Conference on Engineering Design (ICED 03), Stockholm (2003).
(Paper)
This paper describes a new design support system that supports
conceptual or creative design by dynamically integrating knowledge in
different design domains. We argue that abduction for integrating theories
can be a basic principle to formalize such design processes. Based on this
principle, we propose Universal Abduction Studio, a design environment in
which designers combine different theories to arrive at better design. In
this new approach to computational support of conceptual design, the system
should offer various types of abductive reasoning from which designers can
select an interesting design method. We also discuss technologies to
implement UAS and in this paper we propose to use analogical reasoning as
abductive reasoning to discover relationships between knowledge from
different sources. We demonstrate that the system can discover a new idea in
a design example taken from a real design activity.
Hideaki Takeda (National Institute of Informatics)