Designing the Visual Palette:
Emerging Concepts in Macrocognitive Processes through Visual Generative Techniques
Emerging Concepts in Macrocognitive Processes through Visual Generative Techniques
The Collaborative and Knowledge Interoperability (CKI) model (Warner, Letsky, and Cowen, 2005) conceptualizes macrocognition as the internalized and externalized high-level mental processes employed by teams to create new knowledge during complex, one-of-a-kind, collaborative problem solving. High-level is defined as the process of combining, visualizing, and aggregating information to resolve ambiguity in support of the discovery of new knowledge and relationships.
A research grant provided the opportunity to validate the CKI model and allowed enough freedom to create alternate methods to do this. The idea of analyzing the impact of visuals and how they stimulate ideation, emotion and trigger discussion of concepts led to the creation of a visual palette for eliciting responses from study participants with regard of team work concepts.The process of creating this palette itself became a complex task, because without the use of words, the image would have to conceptually mean the same to any participant.
A paper, currently being developed, that explains the process of how this visual palette was created and how it was a multydisciplinary effort between designers and engineers can be downloaded here in pdf format (900 KB).
A research grant provided the opportunity to validate the CKI model and allowed enough freedom to create alternate methods to do this. The idea of analyzing the impact of visuals and how they stimulate ideation, emotion and trigger discussion of concepts led to the creation of a visual palette for eliciting responses from study participants with regard of team work concepts.The process of creating this palette itself became a complex task, because without the use of words, the image would have to conceptually mean the same to any participant.
A paper, currently being developed, that explains the process of how this visual palette was created and how it was a multydisciplinary effort between designers and engineers can be downloaded here in pdf format (900 KB).