Name

Surname: Prats Given name: Miquel

Contact (E-mail address, Web site)

m.prats[a_t]open.ac.uk

http://design.open.ac.uk/prats/index.htm

Affiliation

Position: Research assistant Organization: The Open University Address: The Design Group, Faculty of Mathematics, Computing and Technology, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA Country: UK

Major/Field

Computational design

Research Interests

Design creativity Shape grammars Design exploration in product design Sketching in design Generative design Shape perception in creativity

Selected Publications (max.4)

• Prats M, Lim S, Jowers I (2008), Describing shape transformations in design sketches, Design Computing and Cognition DCC’08 workshop on Informing computational support for conceptual design: lessons learned from sketching studies, 21 June, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
• Prats M, Garner S (2006), Observations on Ambiguity in Design Sketches, Tracey, an internet-based drawing research journal, Loughborough University
• Prats M, Earl C (2006), Exploration through drawings in the conceptual stage of product design, Design Computing and Cognition DCC'06, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
• Prats M, Earl C, Garner S, Jowers I (2006), Shape exploration of designs in a style: towards generation of product designs, AI EDAM, special issue on Understanding, Representing and Reasoning about Style, 20(3)