Objective Portrait

A practice-based inquiry to explore Al as a reflective design partner

Conference paper (2023)

Authors

Vera van der Burg DesIgning Value in Ecosystems
Gijs de Boer Design Academy of Eindhoven
Amila Akdag Salah Universiteit Utrecht
R.S.K. Chandrasegaran DesIgning Value in Ecosystems
P.A. Lloyd DesIgning Value in Ecosystems
Research Group
DesIgning Value in Ecosystems
Copyright: © 2023 V. van der Burg, Gijs de Boer, Amila Akdag Salah, R.S.K. Chandrasegaran, P.A. Lloyd
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https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3595974
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Published Date

2023

Language

English

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DesIgning Value in Ecosystems

Abstract

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being viewed as a creative partner rather than as a tool. How to design such collaborations is still a subject of speculation. In this pictorial, we propose a collaborative role for AI to prompt self-reflection. We explore this through a practice-based inquiry of whether and how AI could help a designer reflect on and relate to their own work. Three designers annotate a collection of images representing their fascinations, with subjective labels, indicating different dimensions of their visual concepts. These labels are used to teach an object detection model the designers’ perspectives. Then, they used this trained model on their own design work to evaluate the AI's potential to prompt self-reflection. By describing this process of AI-training we explore how an AI can help us become aware of our own implicit perspectives.