| Author: | Zheng, Beilei |
| Title: | Is AI helpful for architecture design? A user study on AI-assisted architecture design software |
| Degree: | M.Sc. |
| Year: | 2024 |
| Department: | Department of Building Environment and Energy Engineering |
| Pages: | xiv, 86 pages : color illustrations |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | The architecture industry needs transformation. With the swift development of Artificial Intelligence (AI), we hope that it can free up more time for architectural designers to engage in creative work rather than tedious and repetitive tasks. Many AI image-generation software has appeared and been applied to architectural designers, but are these software tools helpful for architectural designers? What challenges does AI face in the architecture industry? What should we do to improve these issues regarding software development? We still have much to explore. We invited 20 volunteers and gathered some basic information to understand the workflow of architectural designers, which helped us design subsequent experiments to simulate their working Scenario. After that, we invited the same 20 volunteers to use AI tools with provided materials to complete a design task, simulating real-world scenarios of AI-assisted design. Then, we used questionnaires and interviews to identify areas for improvement. Then, we conducted a user satisfaction survey with a larger group of designers to explore whether the suggestions from the last experiment can enhance user satisfaction. We built a regression curve to predict the relationship between improvements to different aspects of the software and user satisfaction. In summary, AI software is not able to assist designers independently, and It needs the assistance of other software to produce better work. AI-assisted architectural design software developers should prioritise optimising the interactive interface based on the existing software so that the user has a better interactive experience and improves the AI performance to better recognise and understand the designer's intent. |
| Rights: | All rights reserved |
| Access: | restricted access |
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