Three unique concept explorations in sketching based on conceptual combinations in associative extension and schematic structure

Abstract

Sketching is a creative thinking process that can compound ideas to explore novel concepts. Generating novel concepts through sketches involves interpreting a combination of certain elements of the sketch image. As such, combining specific elements of the drawn sketches is of particular interest. In order to analyze the sketching process, this study investigated concept generation by explicitly replacing the attributes of sketches with noun-noun combinations. In this process, corresponding associative extensions and a schematic structure allows for the exploration of unique sketching concepts through property-based, relation-based, and hybrid-based combinations. In doing so, novel concepts can be generated by interpreting the attributes of sketches in unique ways.