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2017 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Mixed-Initiative Creative Drawing with webIconoscope

Author : Antonios Liapis

Published in: Computational Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This paper presents the webIcononscope tool for creative drawing, which allows users to draw simple icons composed of basic shapes and colors in order to represent abstract semantic concepts. The goal of this creative exercise is to create icons that are ambiguous enough to confuse other people attempting to guess which concept they represent. webIcononscope is available online and all creations can be browsed, rated and voted on by anyone; this democratizes the creative process and increases the motivation for creating both appealing and ambiguous icons. To complement the creativity of the human users attempting to create novel icons, several computational assistants provide suggestions which alter what the user is currently drawing based on certain criteria such as typicality and novelty. This paper reports trends in the creations of webIcononscope users, based also on feedback from an online audience.

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Footnotes
1
The launch of webIconoscope was followed by a competition running for 3 months; similar competitions are planned for the future to increase the use of webIconoscope.
 
3
webIconoscope does not allow users to draw lines.
 
4
Gray is not a color that users can pick, so any gray shapes were never re-colored.
 
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Metadata
Title
Mixed-Initiative Creative Drawing with webIconoscope
Author
Antonios Liapis
Copyright Year
2017
Book
Computational Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-55749-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-55750-2

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55750-2_10

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