Understanding design ideation mechanisms through multilevel aligned empirical studies

Noe Vargas Hernandez; Jami J. Shah; Steven M. Smith

doi:10.1016/j.destud.2010.04.001

Understanding design ideation mechanisms through multilevel aligned empirical studies

Noe Vargas Hernandez, Jami J. Shah, Steven M. Smith

Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, School for (IAFSE-SEMTE)

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The overall objectives of the study are to identify key components of ideation methods and develop effectiveness metrics. This paper presents experimental results conducted on six ideation components (Provocative Stimuli, Suspend Judgment, Flexible Representation, Frame of Reference Shifting, Incubation, and Example Exposure). These experiments were conducted simultaneously at the Design (engineering) and Lab (cognitive psychology) levels following an experimental procedure previously developed to align these two levels of experiments. Results show the effectiveness of the ideation components in terms of effectiveness metrics and also the extent of alignment of the results from these two levels. Understanding of ideation components has been gained (main effects ease of manipulation and interactions).

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	382-410
Number of pages	29
Journal	Design Studies
Volume	31
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.destud.2010.04.001
State	Published - Jul 2010

Keywords

creativity
design cognition
design ideation
engineering design

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Architecture
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
General Engineering
General Social Sciences
Computer Science Applications
Artificial Intelligence

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