Ms. YU Yang (2nd-year doctoral student in Nagai lab of Human Life Design Area) received Excellent Paper Award in the 15th International Conference on Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems (KICSS 2020).

The 15th International Conference on Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems aims to facilitate technology and knowledge exchange between International researchers/scholars in the field of knowledge science, information systems, and system science and creativity support systems intensively. The conference covers a broad range of research topics in the fields of knowledge engineering and science, information technology, creativity support systems and complex system modeling. The conference has so far been an important event and has attracted many scientists, engineers and researchers from academia, government laboratories, and industry internationally. Among the papers, a few excellent paper is awarded as Excellent Paper Award of KICSS2020.
KICSS 2020 was held at online during November 25-26, 2020.

■Date Awarded
November 26, 2020

■Title
A Study of Cognitive Thinking in Visual Design: The Utility of Words of Different Semantic Types to Inspire Creative Thinking

■Authors
Yang Yu, Yukari Nagai, Eunyoung Kim, Fei Fei, Jie Jiang

■Abstract
To contribute to a better understanding of creativity in design activities, an experimental study was conducted using a cognitive approach based on semantic words ("Semantic words" refer to words that use different semantic types) to inspire creative thinking in visual design. The objective of this study was to determine to what extent semantic words can help designers inspire creative thinking, and the influence of semantic words with different types on design.

■Comment
It is a great honor for me to receive this Award in KICSS 2020. I would like to extend our gratitude to the KICSS organizing committee for this award as well as Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology for the support during my research activities, I especially wish to thank my supervisor Professor Nagai for her constant guidance and great encouragements. And last, I would like to thank Associate Professor Kim and my members for support me. I believe that this research is a step towards achieving my research goals and inspiring me to do better in the future.

December 1,2020