Pub Date : 2019-04-03DOI: 10.1080/21650349.2018.1463177
Eli Silk, S. Daly, K. Jablokow, Seda McKilligan
Abstract Creativity and diversity are key components of success in idea generation, but each includes many dimensions. Paradigm-relatedness is an indicator of the style of creativity and diversity that has been overlooked often in assessing ideation. The goals for this study were to synthesize the literature on paradigm-relatedness, and develop and test alternative approaches for operationalizing paradigm-relatedness in ideation. The synthesis of the literature focused on reviewing both paradigm-relatedness theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches. Then, two alternative paradigm-relatedness metric approaches—category-based and component-based—were developed. Finally, ideation data was collected and coded to evaluate the reliability, ease of use, and potential applications of each approach. The category-based approach was a more reliable and faster way to code paradigm-relatedness, and so it may be more suited for research or evaluation at scale. In contrast, the component-based approach provided more explicit information on all aspects of paradigm-relatedness, but was more challenging to code reliably and more time-consuming. The component-based approach may be more suited to guiding smaller teams or individual designers in achieving paradigm-relatedness creativity and diversity. Neither approach was found to be universally ideal, and so consideration of the trade-offs is important in deciding which is most appropriate in a given situation.
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Pub Date : 2019-04-03DOI: 10.1080/21650349.2018.1542808
G. Cascini, Y. Nagai, G. V. Georgiev, J. Zelaya
Nowadays, we have plenty of channels where to share thoughts, experiences, ambitions, but most of these channels turn out to be ephemeral and evanescent. On the contrary, we believe that thoughts of knowledgeable people deserve to be digested and reflected upon with adequate time. For this reason, the International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation will dedicate its next editorials to the publication of insights from prominent scholars in design science and creativity, with the aim of promoting a long-term discussion in our discipline. Recently, we had the chance to meet Prof. Dorian Marjanović at the International Workshop ‘Design Research – Sociotechnical Aspects of Quality, Creativity and Innovation’ organized by University of Zagreb. It was the perfect occasion to start our initiative and so we asked Prof. Marjanović to briefly share his thoughts on the most significant achievements of the research on design creativity in the last decades and on the current challenges that researchers working in the field of design creativity should address. His kind answers follow. Design is evolving. Moving from traditional categories to predominantly multidisciplinary projects dealing with service design, social systems, and complexity at a large scale, design is moving away from its product-focused origins. Acknowledging the contemporary aspects of design and the problems designers address, design creativity research is more than ever research of ”living things moving in a field”. Creativity in design arises from all the human experience gathered through knowledge of generations embedded in the ‘design experience’ of individuals. We may view design creativity research as an exploration of design experience and creation, an attempt to get a comprehensive insight into creativity, not constrained by by-product domains but rather as creativity engaged in a constant balancing act with functionality. Creativity with a desire to advance. Design creativity research is built on the complex inheritance of trans-disciplinary research in cognitive, business and management, education, social, art, and other disciplines. It is hard to outline all the overlapping and discrepancies in the research protocols, in the terminology, in the methodology as well as in the practical value of the research outcomes. While the research in cognitive sciences is oriented to metrics and measurement, educational and business disciplines tend to emphasise the enhancements of the creative potentials of individuals and groups. At the same time, design creativity research endeavours to develop models, theoretically sound with a practical implication that will enable a more efficient transformation of inspiration into substance. Considering the complexity of design as a discipline of developing ‘the new,’ the research outcomes unavoidably encompass only partial views, a brief image of ‘living things’ that will keep on moving long after the picture was taken. There is a significant
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Pub Date : 2019-04-03DOI: 10.1080/21650349.2018.1428690
Ding Wei, Y. Nagai, Liu Jing, Guo Xiao
Abstract The integration of multiple domains is encouraged in order to respond to the need for societal wellbeing. For example, smart clothing is expected to be beneficial for health monitoring. However, there still exists the challenge of designing casual smart clothing that can both accurately measure health parameters and ensure a high level of wearing comfort, especially for infants. This study meets the challenge of designing smart clothing that applies knowledge of infant clothing design, sensor technology, and machine learning in an experiment. The aim is to solve the problems associated with the use of sensors for real-time body temperature monitoring. The use skintight sensors is more accurate but uncomfortable. Skin-loose sensors, on the other hand, enhance comfort but limit the accuracy of the temperature readings. The results show that a combination of multiple skin-loose sensors can be used to overcome the trade-off between sensor accuracy and wearing comfort in smart clothing for health monitoring.
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Pub Date : 2019-04-03DOI: 10.1080/21650349.2018.1465478
David C. Brown
Abstract This paper describes an initial investigation into models that might be useful to describe and compare computational design creativity (CDC) systems. An existing approach to creative system comparison, the FACE model, is critiqued, and discovered to be a weak match with design systems. Informed by this discovery, an alternative more design-oriented, ontology-based approach is proposed that describes systems in terms of design-oriented processes. Various proposals in the literature about design reasoning processes are evaluated for inclusion in an ontology of processes that could be used for CDC comparison, using criteria that are developed and presented in this paper.
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Pub Date : 2019-04-03DOI: 10.1080/21650349.2018.1473170
M. Fazelpour, Apurva Patel, Prabhu Shankar, J. Summers
Abstract A user study is designed and carried out to evaluate the subjectivity of four unit-cell design (UCD) guidelines and demonstrate how inexperienced designers re-design novel unit-cells using the guidelines as ideation tools. UCD guidelines outline a set of instructions on changing important parameters to guide engineers in intentionally redesigning shapes and topologies for unit-cells when considering a desired structural behavior. The subjectivity of the guidelines is evaluated based on the similarities among modified unit-cells as a result of applying guidelines to initial unit-cells. The metric to measure similarity qualitatively is based on topology and shape definitions. The results show there are similarities among the modified unit-cells; however, two guidelines led to generate more diverse modified unit-cells. Furthermore, the effectiveness of the guidelines is demonstrated by conducting comparative simulation studies on the hexagonal honeycomb unit-cell and top modified unit-cells for each guideline. The results of this study demonstrate the guidelines can be used as ideation tools for the conceptual design of novel unit-cells while the novel unit-cells fulfill a conceptual definition of creativity.
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Pub Date : 2019-04-03DOI: 10.1080/21650349.2018.1463176
S. Jagtap
Abstract Novelty is an important characteristic of a creative idea, forming a core component of creativity. Measurement of novelty is therefore essential to assess creativity. We found deficiencies in a frequently cited method of novelty assessment found in the literature. We refine this method by proposing four modifications, supported by drawing on examples of products and ideas. The refined method and the original method are evaluated by benchmarking them against the collective, intuitive assessment of product novelty by experienced designers. The overall achievement of the refined method as presented in this paper is its contribution to a better assessment of product novelty.
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Pub Date : 2019-04-03DOI: 10.1080/21650349.2018.1463178
Alexander Leeds, Barry M. Kudrowitz, Jieun Kwon
Abstract This study is a preliminary inquiry into the structure of mental associations as captured by the Mind Mapping process. Participants generated mind maps around a common central theme. The average frequency occurrence of items mentioned in the maps (i.e., responses) was used as a measure of the response’s relative ‘uniqueness.’ Although the creation of these mind maps was not framed as a Divergent Thinking task, interesting parallels to other Divergent Thinking tasks are reported and compared. This study expands upon the Serial Order Effect by utilizing the tree-graph structure of mind maps to parse out how the depth, breadth, and order of associations relates to uniqueness. The data shows a moderate relationship between order and uniqueness, and a strong relationship between depth and uniqueness. However, higher quantity of deeper responses does not indicate higher average uniqueness of responses. The results suggest that the latent dimensions of depth and breadth are not represented by ‘order’ and are absent in list formats. These results may inform more accurate Divergent Thinking assessments and better tools for aiding an idea generation processes.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-27DOI: 10.1080/21650349.2018.1562995
C. Liang, Chi-Cheng Chang, Yu-Cheng Liu
ABSTRACT Scientific data regarding the conception of design-related ideas are increasing, but the mechanisms underlying conceptual imagination remain unclear. The current study aimed to identify the sites of cerebral activity related to pictorial stimulation and to compare the results of electroencephalography for expert and novice designers engaging in tasks involving conceptual imagination. The experiments revealed that (i) the brain activities of virtual experience designers were notably stimulated in the prefrontal and temporal cortices; (ii) the spectral power levels of experts were higher than those of novices, except with regard to sensibility stimulation in the left temporal cortex; and (iii) the differences between experts and novices in the results for the theta and alpha bands in the prefrontal cortex were statistically significant.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-25DOI: 10.1080/21650349.2018.1555492
Ju Hyun Lee, Michael J. Ostwald
ABSTRACT Cognitive complexity is a psychological concept that is used to analyse different approaches to problem solving, activity prioritising, information clustering and abstraction. This paper develops a combined approach utilising protocol analysis and linkography to measure the cognitive complexity of parametric design processes. The approach is selectively applied and tested using pilot data from two experiments in parametric modelling environments. The results indicate that: (i) levels of design cognition can explain individual cognitive complexity and (ii) sequential entropies over time can be regarded as quantitative measures of complexity. Decile growth plots of linkographs are used to reveal individual cognitive differences in the design process. This approach contributes to advancing fundamental knowledge about design cognition and complexity.
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Pub Date : 2018-10-02DOI: 10.1080/21650349.2017.1302363
Remi Leclerc, R. Horan
Abstract A deeper understanding of designers’ core competencies and psychological traits supports both design education and more effective integration of design into industries seeking innovation. The Integral Psychological Profile, an instrumental breakthrough in psychometric testing, measured a group of young designers for core competence and trait ‘fit,’ or ‘compatibility,’ to various design curricula. Psychological ‘fit’ was significantly associated with better academic performance. Creativity, exploration, and proactivity emerged as gatekeepers to design proficiency with additional competency alignment reinforcing success. IPsP traits, found in high performers, closely matched previous attempts at defining designer attributes. A more comprehensive model of designer competence was developed. Findings also illumined some key psychological guidelines for advancing design in business.
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