Paper Info
Title
Representing analogies to influence fixation and creativity: A study comparing computer-aided design, photographs, and sketches.
Abstract
Many tools are being developed to assist designers in retrieving analogies. One critical question these designers face is how these analogues should be represented in order to minimize design fixation and maximize idea generation. To address this question, an experiment is presented that compares various representations' influence on creativity and design fixation. This experiment presents an effective example (analogue) as computer-aided design (CAD), sketch, or photograph representations. We found that all representations induced fixation, and the degree of fixation did not vary significantly. We also found that CAD representations encourage engineering designers to identify and copy the key effective features of the example. CAD and photo representations also produced a higher quality of design concepts. Results from this experiment offer insights into how these various representations may be used in examples during idea generation; CAD representations appear to offer the greatest advantages during the idea generation process. The results from this experiment also indicate that analogical databases of effective design examples should include CAD and photolike images of the analogue rather than sketches.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1017/S0890060415000049
AI EDAM-ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR ENGINEERING DESIGN ANALYSIS AND MANUFACTURING
Keywords
Field
DocType
Analogy,Design Fixation,Design Representation,Sketching
Engineering drawing,Computer science,Computer Aided Design,Analogy,Creativity
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
29
SP2
0890-0604
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.45
11
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Olufunmilola Atilola171.31
Julie Linsey25512.39