Abstract: Researchers and design practitioners advocate building physical models of ideas at early stages of the design process. Still, the cognitive effects of physical models remain largely unknown. Some studies show that physical ...

Abstract: Engineering idea generation plays a vital role in the development of novel products. Prior studies have shown that designers fixate to the features of example solutions and replicate these features in their ideas. This ...

Abstract: While advances have been made in studying engineering design learning in the classroom, to date, such advances have not addressed hands-on, real-world learning experiences in university makerspaces. Our particular interest ...

Abstract: Bioinspired design is the adaptation of methods, strategies, or principles found in nature to solve engineering problems. One formalized approach to bioinspired solution seeking is the abstraction of the engineering problem ...

Abstract: Designbyanalogy, including bioinspired design, is a powerful tool for innovation. Engineers need better tools to enhance ideation. To support tool creation, an exploratory crosssectional empirical product study of 70 ...

Abstract: Decision making is a central activity in the design of an engineered system and has a significant impact on project outcomes. Although much research exists on engineering decision making, relatively little addresses ...

Abstract: Different from explicit customer needs that can be identified directly by analyzing raw data from the customers, latent customer needs are often implied in the semantics of use cases underlying customer needs information. ...

Abstract: This study examines how the quantity of ideas and analog transfer in design-by-analogy (DbA) are affected by multiple analogs and extraneous information, or noise, using a between-subjects, factorial experiment. To evaluate ...

Abstract: This research defines the basis for a new quantitative approach for retrieving useful analogies for innovation based on the relevant performance characteristics of functions. The concept of critical functionality is the ...