DESIGN SYSTEM AND METHOD USING AFFORDANCE FEATURE REPOSITORY

• US 20150324393A1
• Filed: 08/12/2013
• Published: 11/12/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SungKyunKwan University's Research & Business Foundation (SungKyunKwan University)
• Original Assignee: SungKyunKwan University's Research & Business Foundation (SungKyunKwan University)
• Inventors: KIM, Yong Se, KIM, Sun Ran, NOH, Ji Hye, HONG, Yeon Koo
• Granted Patent: US 9,984,099 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/245 Query processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/288 Entity relationship models
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/5866 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, manually generated location and time information
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 30/00 Computer-aided design [CAD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/04 Inference or reasoning models

Abstract

A design system using affordance features, the design system is provided. The system includes a storage unit that stores multiple affordances, that is messages that induce natural and efficient corresponding activities of human; a search unit that searches affordance features, that is, the structural entities that provide corresponding affordances, to search conditions set by a user; an output unit that outputs design information corresponding to the affordance features searched by the search unit and design information corresponding to an affordance feature selected by the user on a user interface; and an analogical reasoning unit that performs analogical reasoning on the basis of the design information corresponding to the selected affordance feature and derives a new affordance feature for a predetermined design target to be designed by the user.

Claims

1. A design system using affordance features, the design system comprising:

a storage unit that stores multiple affordances, one or more affordance features matched with each of the affordances, and design information corresponding to each of the affordance features;

a search unit that searches affordance features corresponding to search conditions set by a user;

an output unit that outputs design information corresponding to the affordance features searched by the search unit and design information corresponding to an affordance feature selected by the user on a user interface; and

an analogical reasoning unit that performs analogical reasoning on the basis of the design information corresponding to the selected affordance feature and derives a new affordance feature for a predetermined design target to be designed by the user,

wherein the affordance features are extracted on the basis of the affordances, and

the affordances are identified on the basis of correlations between multiple functions and activities for a pre-analyzed design target.

2. The design system of claim 1,

wherein the search unit searches the affordance features on the basis of the affordances, predetermined design target and images and structural descriptions of the affordance features.

3. The design system of claim 1,

wherein the search unit searches the affordance features by way of keyword search.

4. The design system of claim 1, further comprising:

an updating unit that updates the affordance feature selected by the user from the affordance features searched by the search unit.

5. The design system of claim 1,

wherein the storage unit stores the new affordance feature and design information corresponding to the new affordance feature.

6. The design system of claim 1,

wherein the design information includes at least one of design constraint information corresponding to each of the affordance features and context-based activity model information.

7. A design method using affordance features, the design method comprising:

storing multiple affordances, one or more affordance features matched with each of the affordances, and design information corresponding to each of the affordance features;

searching affordance features corresponding to search conditions set by a user;

performing analogical reasoning on the basis of design information corresponding to an affordance feature selected by the user from design information corresponding to the searched affordance features; and

deriving a new affordance feature for a predetermined design target to be designed by the user,

wherein the affordance features are extracted on the basis of the affordances, and

the affordances are identified on the basis of correlations between multiple functions and activities for a pre-analyzed design target.

8. The design method of claim 7, further comprising:

outputting the design information corresponding to the searched affordance features and the design information corresponding to the affordance feature selected by the user on a user interface.

9. The design method of claim 7,

wherein, in the step of the searching for affordance features corresponding to search conditions set by a user, the affordance features are searched on the basis of images and structural descriptions of the affordance features.

10. The design method of claim 7,

wherein, in the step of the searching for affordance features corresponding to search conditions set by a user, the affordance features are searched by way of keyword search.

11. The design method of claim 7, further comprising:

updating the affordance feature selected by the user from the searched affordance features.

12. The design method of claim 7,

wherein, in the step of the storing, the newly derived affordance feature is further stored.