Abstract: Assessing similarity between design ideas is an inherent part of many design evaluations to measure novelty. In such evaluation tasks, humans excel at making mental connections among diverse knowledge sets to score ideas ...

Abstract: Design variety metrics measure how much a design space is explored. This article proposes that a generalized class of entropy metrics based on Sharma–Mittal entropy offers advantages over existing methods to measure design ...

Abstract: Design researchers have long sought to understand the mechanisms that support creative idea development. However, one of the key challenges faced by the design community is how to effectively measure the nebulous construct ...