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7 papers

cs.HC2026

Personagram: Bridging Personas and Product Design for Creative Ideation with Multimodal LLMs

Taewook Kim, Matthew K. Hong, Yan-Ying Chen +5

Product designers often begin their design process with handcrafted personas. While personas are intended to ground design decisions in consumer preferences, they often fall short…

cs.HC2026

Deconstructing Taste: Toward a Human-Centered AI Framework for Modeling Consumer Aesthetic Perceptions

Matthew K. Hong, Joey Li, Alexandre Filipowicz +6

Understanding and modeling consumers' stylistic taste such as "sporty" is crucial for creating designs that truly connect with target audiences. However, capturing taste during the…

cs.HC2025

FlexMind: Supporting Deeper Creative Thinking with LLMs

Yaqing Yang, Vikram Mohanty, Yan-Ying Chen +3

Effective ideation requires both broad exploration of diverse ideas and deep evaluation of their potential. Generative AI can support such processes, but current tools typically em…

cs.HC2025

Scaffolding Flexible Ideation Workflows with AI in Creative Problem-Solving

Yaqing Yang, Vikram Mohanty, Nikolas Martelaro +3

Divergent thinking in the ideation stage of creative problem-solving demands that individuals explore a broad design space. Yet this exploration rarely follows a neat, linear seque…

cs.HC2025

From Overload to Insight: Scaffolding Creative Ideation through Structuring Inspiration

Yaqing Yang, Vikram Mohanty, Nikolas Martelaro +3

Creative ideation relies on exploring diverse stimuli, but the overwhelming abundance of information often makes it difficult to identify valuable insights or reach the `aha' momen…

cs.HC2025

BioSpark: Beyond Analogical Inspiration to LLM-augmented Transfer

Hyeonsu Kang, David Chuan-en Lin, Yan-Ying Chen +3

We present BioSpark, a system for analogical innovation designed to act as a creativity partner in reducing the cognitive effort in finding, mapping, and creatively adapting divers…