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@article{Wang:2026:10.1080/09544828.2025.2504309,
author = {Wang, P and Zhang, X and Wei, L and Childs, P and Jia, Wang S and Guo, Y and Kleinsmann, M},
doi = {10.1080/09544828.2025.2504309},
journal = {Journal of engineering design},
pages = {458--494},
title = {Human-AI co-ideation via combinational generative model},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09544828.2025.2504309},
volume = {37},
year = {2026}
}
TY - JOUR
AB - Ideation is a critical step in the engineering design process, enabling designers to develop creative and innovative concepts and prototypes. Currently, the ideation workflow requires designers to generate new designs based on product requirements, heavily relying on their personal expertise and experience. To advance human-AI collaboration design and assist designers in the idea-generation process, this paper proposes an Object Combination Generative Adversarial Network (OC-GAN) for combinational creativity. The proposed method includes an image encoder module and a cross-domain object combination generator module. The image encoder module captures and encodes image structure information into latent space, while the cross-domain object combination generator module leverages GANs to combine object images based on user preferences, producing new design images. A design case study is used to evaluate the new ideation approach and reveal not only strong cross-domain concept combination capabilities but also improvement in designers' workflow and provision of novelty to the design case.HighlightsAn AI approach to improve the efficiency of idea generation in the design process.A case study evaluates its support for idea generation and design creativity.The OC-GAN is used for multi-domain object image combining tasks.Exemplifies the feasibility of human-AI collaboration design for enhancing creativity.
AU - Wang,P
AU - Zhang,X
AU - Wei,L
AU - Childs,P
AU - Jia,Wang S
AU - Guo,Y
AU - Kleinsmann,M
DO - 10.1080/09544828.2025.2504309
EP - 494
PY - 2026///
SN - 0954-4828
SP - 458
TI - Human-AI co-ideation via combinational generative model
T2 - Journal of engineering design
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09544828.2025.2504309
UR - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09544828.2025.2504309
VL - 37
ER -
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