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About this paper
B. Sankar, Dibakar Sen
This paper from IISc Bangalore presents a structured Conversational AI (CAI) system that functions as an active ideation tool for novice product designers. A pilot study showed the CAI significantly increased idea fluency (nearly threefold), novelty (3.86 vs 2.5), and variety (4.2 vs 2.9) compared to traditional methods, while also introducing prompt engineering to provide structured, actionable output and mitigate cognitive overload.
Key insights
- Conversational AI can transform passive ideation into an "active" process, providing fresh perspectives and stimulating new thoughts for designers.
- While prolific, unstructured output from LLMs can lead to cognitive overload; structuring both input prompts and output responses is crucial for utility and user experience.
- The integration of AI shifts the designer's role from solely generating ideas to primarily curating and refining AI-generated concepts.
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