Current trends in urban planning and recent changes in planning culture (Puustinen 2006;
Staffans 2004) support the development of a new methodology for collaborative planning …

A contextual inquiry is presented on how designers collect and organize visual material that
they use for inspiration in their design process. The inquiry is a follow-up on a inquiry …

Interaction on digital tables has been restricted to a single layer on the table's active work-
surface. We extend the design space of digital tables to include multiple layers of interaction …

Existing computer technologies poorly support the ideation phase common to graphic
design practice. Finding and indexing visual material to assist the process of ideation often …

Industrial designers make sketches and physical models to start and develop ideas and
concept designs. Such representations have advantages that they support fast, intuitive, rich …

Designers and architects regularly use piles to organize visual artifacts. Recent efforts have
now made it possible for users to create piles in digital systems as well. However, there is …

We introduce Co-Curator, a prototype mobile app designed to support collection and
sharing of referential sources of inspiration in face-to-face design ideation meetings. The …

In this paper we dwell upon the effect that Information Society at large, and the use of ICT
technologies in particular, have on the ability of humans in generating new ideas through a …

Traditional desktop computers are known to offer insufficient functionality to designers. They
are often complemented by pen-based tablet devices in order to better support key activities …

This research is to explore visual diary as a tool that allows students to express their multiple
creative views and their abilities in generating ideas. This tool has been integrated as part of …