Methodology and Fundamental Technology for Innovative Design Ideation by Collaboration of Human- and Artificial Intelligence

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19H02047
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 18030:Design engineering-related
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: MURAKAMI Tamotsu 東京大学, 大学院工学系研究科(工学部), 教授 (20212251)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: デザイン発想インフォマティクス / 発想創出 / 協創的知能

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study investigated methodologies and fundamental technologies for co-creation of innovative ideas between humans, information technology (IT), and artificial intelligence (AI), in the bi-directional approaches to encoding upstream design problems into a computable format (human -> IT, AI) and decoding machine learning and AI processing results into a human-interpretable format (IT, AI -> human).
The research results included "creation of design ideas by reinforcing knowledge and information about functions and user experiences”, "creation of design ideas by enhancing human recall by computers", "creation of ideas for new functions and user experiences by generating non-existent sentences," and "interpretation of machine learning results in the upstream design stage by explainable AI.

Free Research Field

設計工学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究は、製品（モノ、コト）の設計／デザインのプロセスにおける、「どう実現するか」よりも上流の「何を実現するか」の段階を対象として、人間の直感的な発想と、IT、AIなどの網羅的、系統的な情報の探索や生成の共創の方法論を示した点が、学術的意義である。それによって、よりよい生活や社会の実現、産業競争力の向上などにつながる革新的な発想が創出される可能性につながることが、社会的意義である。