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Abstract:
Design tasks are notoriously difficult, because success is de-
fined by the perception of the target audience, whose feed-
back is usually not available during design stages. Com-
monly, design is performed by professionals who have spe-
cific domain knowledge (i.e., an intuitive understanding of
the implicit requirements of the task) and do not need the
feedback of the perception of the viewers during the process.
In this paper, we present a novel design methodology for cre-
ating minimal sketches of objects that uses an iterative opti-
mization scheme. We define minimality for a sketch via the
minimal number of straight line segments required for correct
recognition by 75% of na¨ıve viewers. Crowd-sourcing tech-
niques allow us to directly include the perception of the audi-
ence in the design process. By joining designers and crowds,
we are able to create a human computation system that can
efficiently optimize sketches without requiring high levels of
domain knowledge (i.e., design skills) from any worker.
