Beyond Prompts

      Research on human-AI interaction beyond traditional prompting. Exploring new paradigms for how designers and AI systems collaborate in creative workflows.

      Assumption: Natural language can adequately describe visual qualities in design

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      Research Problem

      1. Design visualisations embody complex perceptual qualities that are difficult to capture purely through numeric or linguistic descriptions.
      2. Designers (or prompt engineers!) need to construct very long and complex text prompts to generate images that convey envisioned qualities.
      3. Gen-AI workflows lack intuitive capture of designers' visual intent

      Beyond Prompts: Reference / analogue-based ideation in urban design

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      Technical outline

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