2 episodes

Everything we wear, every product we use, every building we see is a design defined by a certain shape. The Design with Vision project illustrates how eye tracking technology can be combined with shape generation software to create a radically new type of computer aided design. As you sketch ideas for product shape the system detects what you are looking at and offers you a range of on-screen alternative shapes. This is computing that works with your own creativity rather than replacing it – this research, a collaboration between the OU and the University of Leeds is aimed at stimulating and generating ideas for designers, the result could have a global effect on the industries of the future.

Future Technologies: Designing with vision - for iPad/Mac/PC The Open University

- Education

- 28 OCT 2009
- video
Future Design Tools

Future Design Tools

This video reveals research into some of the very latest design tools. It shows how eye tracking technology can be combined with shape generation software to create a radically new type of computer aided design. The Designing with Vision system is like having a design colleague sit next to you at your computer screen. As you sketch ideas for product shape the system detects what you are looking at and offers you a range of on-screen alternative shapes.
- 3 min
- 28 OCT 2009
Transcript -- Future Design Tools

Transcript -- Future Design Tools

This video reveals research into some of the very latest design tools. It shows how eye tracking technology can be combined with shape generation software to create a radically new type of computer aided design. The Designing with Vision system is like having a design colleague sit next to you at your computer screen. As you sketch ideas for product shape the system detects what you are looking at and offers you a range of on-screen alternative shapes.