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Studying Visual and Spatial Reasoning for Design Creativity

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  • Confluence of research in multiple disciplines
  • Focus on creativity
  • International research perspectives
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (15 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Design Science—State-of-the-Art

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Navigating Complex Buildings: Cognition, Neuroscience and Architectural Design

      • R.C. Dalton, C. Hölscher, H.J. Spiers
      Pages 3-22
    3. Showing Connection

      • Jeffrey V. Nickerson, Barbara Tversky, James E. Corter
      Pages 23-37
    4. Sortal Grammars for Urban Design

      • Rudi Stouffs
      Pages 51-66
  3. Cognitive Science—State-of-the-Art

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177
    2. Thinking About Spatial Thinking: New Typology, New Assessments

      • Nora S. Newcombe, Thomas F. Shipley
      Pages 179-192
    3. On Abstraction and Ambiguity

      • Barbara Tversky
      Pages 215-223
  4. Neuroscience—State-of-the-Art

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 225-225
    2. Spatial Transformations of Scene Stimuli: It’s an Upright World

      • Amy L. Shelton, Jeffrey M. Zacks
      Pages 245-266

About this book

Creativity and design creativity in particular are being recognized as playing an increasing role in the social and economic wellbeing of a society. As a consequence creativity is becoming a focus of research. However, much of this burgeoning research is distributed across multiple disciplines that normally do not intersect with each other and researchers in one discipline are often unaware of related research in another discipline.

This volume brings together contributions from design science, computer science, cognitive science and neuroscience on studying visual and spatial reasoning applicable to design creativity. The book is the result of a unique NSF-funded workshop held in Aix-en-Provence, France. The aim of the workshop and the resulting volume was to allow researchers in disparate disciplines to be exposed to the other’s research, research methods and research results within the context of design creativity.

Fifteen of the papers presented and discussed at the workshop are contained in this volume. The contributors come from Germany, Israel, Netherlands, Poland, Singapore, UK and USA, indicating the international spread of the research presented in this volume.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, Fairfax, USA

    John S. Gero

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Studying Visual and Spatial Reasoning for Design Creativity

  • Editors: John S. Gero

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9297-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9296-7Published: 20 November 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7830-5Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9297-4Published: 09 November 2014

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 267

  • Number of Illustrations: 40 b/w illustrations, 40 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Engineering Design, Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design, Cognitive Psychology

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eBook USD 129.00
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Softcover Book USD 169.99
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Hardcover Book USD 169.99
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