Magellan, an evolutionary system to foster user interface design creativity

Magellan combines task models and interactive genetic algorithms to generate UI sketches that inspire designers and widen design exploration.
Creativity
Exploration
Design
Human-Computer Interaction
Authors

Dimitri Masson

Alexandre Demeure

Gaelle Calvary

Published

June 19, 2010

Doi

10.1145/1822018.1822032

HAL

inria-00498580v1

Abstract

Fostering creativity in User Interface (UI) design is challenging for innovation. This paper explores the combination of model-based approaches and interactive genetic algorithms to foster the exploration of the design space. A user task model is given in input. Magellan produces sketches of UIs that aim at inspiring the designer. Later on, appropriate tools may be used to tune the right design into the design right. Magellan is a proof of concept that deserves further exploration. Currently it is implemented using COMETs but it is not dependent of this technology.

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BibTeX citation:
@inproceedings{masson2010_MagellanEvolutionary,
  author = {Masson, Dimitri and Demeure, Alexandre and Calvary, Gaelle},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  title = {Magellan, an Evolutionary System to Foster User Interface
    Design Creativity},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCHI symposium on
    Engineering interactive computing systems},
  pages = {87-92},
  url = {https://dhmmasson.github.io/publications/masson2010_MagellanEvolutionary.html},
  doi = {10.1145/1822018.1822032},
  isbn = {978-1-4503-0083-4},
  langid = {en}
}
For attribution, please cite this work as:
Masson, D., Demeure, A., & Calvary, G. (n.d.). Magellan, an evolutionary system to foster user interface design creativity. Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems, 87–92. https://doi.org/10.1145/1822018.1822032