Using Watson for Supporting Design Creativity

DS 86: Proceedings of The Fourth International Conference on Design Creativity,Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

Year: 2016
Editor: Julie Linsey, Maria Yang, and Yukari Nagai
Author: Ashok, Goel; Parul, Awasthy; Brian, Creeden; Mithun, Kumble; Shanu, Salunke; Sriya, Sarathy; Abhinaya, Shetty; Divya, Vijayaraghavan; Bryan, Wiltgen
Series: ICDC
ISBN: 978-1-904670-82-7

Abstract

We describe an experiment in using IBM’s Watson tool in a Georgia Tech Spring 2015 class
on compu-tational creativity. The semester-long projects in the class used Watson as a tool to develop
cognitive assistants in support of biologically inspired design, a well-established paradigm for design
creativity. In this paper, we describe the experiment in using Watson as a creativity support tool and
present two projects in detail. We draw lessons for using Watson for constructing cognitive assistants to
support design creativity.

Keywords: Biologically inspired design, cognitive systems, computational creativity