HUNCH 1972: A Second Experiment in Sketch Recognition or: "I Know the Concept of Your Concept of Interpolation"

• Autores: Liss Werner
• Localización: Graphic Imprints: the Influence of Representation and Ideation Tools in Architecture / coord. por Carlos Luis Marcos Alba, Vol. 1, 2019, ISBN 978-3-319-93749-6, págs. 3-11
• Idioma: español
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  • James Taggart developed the sketch recognition system HUNCH at MIT in 1972. Rather than the user trying to understand the software in order to progress a drawing, in the case of HUNCH, the software observed the user sketching. It enabled a conversation between user and software through the sketch as a medium. HUNCH was one component of the Architecture Machine, created in the Architecture Machine Group (Arch Mac), run by Nicholas Negroponte at MIT between 1967 and 1985 and a brainchild of cross-fertilization between architecture, computer sciences and cybernetics in the early 1970s. One of HUNCHs objectives was to enable even the layman to ‘design’ a dream home.

    The paper presents HUNCH’s concept as AIequipped ‘partner’ for the architect, designer or layman.