People can recognize intent by watching designers draw. A machine programmed to recognize intent can suggest and provide computer aided design tools appropriate to the task at hand.

researchers: Ellen Yi-Luen Do

publications:

• 2002 Functional and Formal Reasoning in Architectural Sketches
• 2002 Drawing Marks, Acts, and Reacts, toward a computational sketching interface for architectural design
• 2000 Intentions in and Relations among Design Drawings
• 2000 Beyond the Low-hanging Fruit: Information Technology in Architectural Design, past, present, and future
• 1999 Drawing and Design Intentions -- an Investigation of freehand drawing conventions in design
• 1999 Sketches and Their Functions in Early Design: A Retrospective Analysis of a Pavilion House
• 1998 The Right Tool at the Right Time
• 1997 Thinking with Diagrams
• 1996 The Right Tool at the Right Time: An Investigation of Freehand Drawing as an Interface to Knowledge based Design Systems
• 1996 The Right Tool at the Right Time - PhD Dissertation Proposal
• 1995 Shape Based Reminding as an aid to Creative Design

presentations:

• the IRS presentation: Intuitive Design Interfaces •
• Intuitive Digital Design: sketch, gesture and tangible interfaces •