Thinking with Sketches
Abstract
Sketches serve to externalize ideas, render fleeting ideas permanent, confer coherence on scattered concepts, and turn internal thoughts public. They can be created and recreated, examined and re-examined, configured and reconfigured, considered and reconsidered, for clarity and for creativity. The schematic vocabulary of sketches allows both expression and discovery of ideas. Sketching is integral to design, where vagueness encourages reinterpretation and discourages fixation. Using sketches to those ends requires constructive perception, a combination of a perceptual skill of reconfiguring and a cognitive skill of finding remote associations.
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Spatial reasoning is fundamental to all intellectual processes.
“Spatial reasoning is fundamental to all intellectual processes [1].”
From RoboPoint: A Vision-Language Model for Spatial Affordance Prediction for Robotics (2024) · cites this paper as [1]
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Creating visual explanations improves learning
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Heersmink, R. (2015) · Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences · doi:10.1007/s11097-014-9355-1 · Cited by 191 · see citing works
RoboPoint: A Vision-Language Model for Spatial Affordance Prediction for Robotics
Yuan, W., Duan, J., Blukis, V., Pumacay, W., Krishna, R., Murali, A., Mousavian, A., & Fox, D. (2024) · arXiv · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2406.10721 · Cited by 7 · see citing works
- Authors
- Tversky, B., & Suwa, M.
- Affiliations
- Columbia University (US)
- Chukyo University (JP)
- Venue
- Tools for Innovation
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2009-11-01
- Pages
- 75-84
- OpenAlex
- W2406512702
- Cited by
- 133
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 33.89
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Oxford University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Mechanical Engineering › Design Education and Practice
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Visual Arts and Performing Arts › Artistic and Creative Research
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Data Visualization and Analytics
- Keywords
- sketching, design thinking, remote associations, cognitive flexibility, creativity, vagueness, idea exploration, reconfiguration
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