Abstract
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 AI-equipped ‘partner’ for the architect, designer or layman.
Keywords
- HUNCH
- Sketch recognition
- Drawing
- Cybernetics
- Architecture machine group
- Graphical interface
- Gordon Pask
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Werner, L.C. (2019). HUNCH 1972: A Second Experiment in Sketch Recognition or: ‘I Know the Concept of Your Concept of Interpolation’. In: Marcos, C. (eds) Graphic Imprints. EGA 2018. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93749-6_1
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