Do Analogies and Analogical Distance Influence Ideation Outcomes in Engineering Design?

V.  Srinivasan; Binyang  Song; Jianxi  Luo; Subburaj Karupppasamy; Rajesh  Elara Mohan; Lucienne  Blessing; Kristin  Wood

doi:10.1007/978-981-99-3966-4_13

Do Analogies and Analogical Distance Influence Ideation Outcomes in Engineering Design?

V. Srinivasan^*, Binyang Song, Jianxi Luo, Subburaj Karupppasamy, Rajesh Elara Mohan, Lucienne Blessing, Kristin Wood

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Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering - Design and Manufacturing

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Abstract

The efficacy of using patents for stimulation to support creativity during the concept phase in engineering design is investigated through understanding: (a) the effects of patents for stimulation on generated concepts’ quantity, novelty, and quality and (b) the consequences of stimulating with patents from various distances of analogy on the generated concepts’ novelty and quality. A design experiment is devised in a design course, in which 105 students ideate without and with various patents to generate concepts of spherical robots. The principal observations are as follows: (a) stimulation with as compared to without patents yields more concepts, (b) stimulation with patents, other resources, or their combination as compared to no stimulation yields concepts of higher novelty, (c) stimulation with patents as compared to no patents yields concepts of higher quality, and (d) stimulation with patents, other resources, or their combination as compared to no stimulation yields concepts of higher quality, (e) when the analogical distance between patents and problem domains decreases, quality increases but novelty decreases.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Applied Cognitive Science and Technology : Implications of Interactions Between Human Cognition and Technology
Editors	Sumitava Mukherjee, Varun Dutt, Narayanan Srinivasan
Number of pages	20
Place of publication	Singapore
Publisher	Springer
Publication date	1 Jan 2023
Pages	211–230
ISBN (Print)	978-981-99-3965-7, 978-981-99-3968-8
ISBN (Electronic)	978-981-99-3966-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3966-4_13
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2023

Keywords

Design creativity
Novelty
Patents
Quality
Stimuli

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Srinivasan, V., Song, B., Luo, J., Karupppasamy, S., Elara Mohan, R., Blessing, L., & Wood, K. (2023). Do Analogies and Analogical Distance Influence Ideation Outcomes in Engineering Design? In S. Mukherjee, V. Dutt, & N. Srinivasan (Eds.), Applied Cognitive Science and Technology: Implications of Interactions Between Human Cognition and Technology (pp. 211–230). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3966-4_13

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Srinivasan, V, Song, B, Luo, J, Karupppasamy, S, Elara Mohan, R, Blessing, L & Wood, K 2023, Do Analogies and Analogical Distance Influence Ideation Outcomes in Engineering Design? in S Mukherjee, V Dutt & N Srinivasan (eds), Applied Cognitive Science and Technology: Implications of Interactions Between Human Cognition and Technology. Springer, Singapore, pp. 211–230. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3966-4_13

Do Analogies and Analogical Distance Influence Ideation Outcomes in Engineering Design? / Srinivasan, V. ; Song, Binyang ; Luo, Jianxi et al.
Applied Cognitive Science and Technology: Implications of Interactions Between Human Cognition and Technology. ed. / Sumitava Mukherjee; Varun Dutt; Narayanan Srinivasan. Singapore: Springer, 2023. p. 211–230.

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