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Agile Visualization in Design Thinking

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This chapter presents an agile visualization approach that supports one of the most widespread innovation processes: Design Thinking. The approach integrates the pre-defined graphical elements of SAP Scenes to sketch digital scenes for storyboards. Unforeseen scenarios can be created by accommodating new graphical elements and related domain-specific aspects on-the-fly. This fosters problem understanding and ideation, which otherwise would be hindered by the lack of elements. The symbolic artificial intelligence (AI)-based approach ensures the machine-interpretability of the sketched scenes. In turn, the plausibility check of the scenes is automated to help designers creating meaningful storyboards. The plausibility check includes the use of a domain ontology, which is supplied with semantic constraints. The approach is implemented in the prototype AOAME4Scenes, which is used for evaluation.

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    The storyboard was realized in the innovation room of the Herman Hollerith Zentrum (HHZ), University of Reutlingen.

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    http://www.hhz.de/home/.

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  1. Intelligent Information Systems Research Group, FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Riggenbachstrasse 16, Windisch, Switzerland

    Emanuele Laurenzi, Knut Hinkelmann, Devid Montecchiari & Mini Goel

  2. Department of Informatics, University of Pretoria, Lynnwood Rd, Pretoria, 0083, South Africa

    Emanuele Laurenzi & Knut Hinkelmann

  3. University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy

    Devid Montecchiari

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Laurenzi, E., Hinkelmann, K., Montecchiari, D., Goel, M. (2021). Agile Visualization in Design Thinking. In: Dornberger, R. (eds) New Trends in Business Information Systems and Technology. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 294. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48332-6_3

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