...Daniel Henderson; Kathryn Jablokow; Shanna Daly; Seda McKilligan; Eli Silk; Jennifer Bracken Many tools, techniques, and other interventions have been developed to support idea generation within the design process. In previous research, we explored the separate effects of three such design...

... solution features used in the ideas generated, (3) percentage of example features in participants' solutions, (4) total number of energy sources used, and (5) percentage of solutions using gasoline powered engine as the power source. To ensure consistency in analysis and eliminate noise in the data due...

...Vimal K. Viswanathan; Julie S. Linsey Engineering idea generation is a crucial part of new product development, and physical modeling is a widely used tool. Despite the physical models’ popularity in the idea generation process, little is known about their effects on design cognition. The existing...

.... Empirical work on design-by-analogy demonstrates that professional designers often use analogies [( 5 6 13 19 20 )]. Engineers in particular often employ cross-domain analogies in their idea generation process [( 4 6 19 )]. Close-domain analogies in the form of references to past design are often used...

... concepts, the quality of the concepts improves. This result is a consequence of the team-sharing environment and, in conjunction with the quantity of ideas, validates the effectiveness of group idea generation. This finding suggests a way to go beyond the observation that some forms of brainstorming can...