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: 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: 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 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 ...

Abstract: Bioinspired design, the practice of looking to nature to find inspiration for solutions to engineering problems, is increasingly a desired approach to design. It allows designers to tap a wealth of timetested solutions to ...

Abstract: An engineering design curriculum that introduces functional modeling methods is believed to enhance the ability to abstract complex systems, assist during the concept generation phase of design, and reduce design fixation. ...

Abstract: University makerspaces have been touted as a possible avenue for improving student learning, engagement, retention, and creativity. As their popularity has increased worldwide, so has the amount of research investigating ...

Abstract: Functional modeling allows an engineer or a designer to separate component architecture from the purpose or the objective of a system. Many engineering design textbooks introduce functional modeling as a tool to aid with ...