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On the benefits and pitfalls of analogies for innovative design : Ideation performance based on analogical distance, commonness, and modality of examples
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Positive effects of far-field and less-common examples on novelty and variability in quality of solution concepts are shown and guidelines for the effective design and implementation of design-by-analogy methods are suggested, particularly a focus on far- field, less- common examples during the ideation process.
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The Meaning of “Near” and “Far”: The Impact of Structuring Design Databases and the Effect of Distance of Analogy on Design Output
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A cognitive engineering design study is presented that examines the effect of the distance of analogical design stimuli on design solution generation and confirms that “near” and “far” are relative terms, and depend on the characteristics of the potential stimuli.
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Do the best design ideas (really) come from conceptually distant sources of inspiration
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SOLVENT: A Mixed Initiative System for Finding Analogies between Research Papers
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SOLVENT is introduced, a mixed-initiative system where humans annotate aspects of research papers that denote their background, purpose, mechanism, and findings, and a computational model constructs a semantic representation from these annotations that can be used to find analogies among the research papers.
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Improving Crowd Innovation with Expert Facilitation
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A crowd ideation system where experts monitor incoming ideas through a dashboard and offer high-level “inspirations” to guide ideation shows that expert facilitation can significantly improve crowd innovation, but inexperienced facilitators may need scaffolding to be successful.
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The Impact of Analogies on Creative Concept Generation: Lessons From an In Vivo Study in Engineering Design
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Surprisingly, it was found that concepts were more similar to their preceding concepts after far analogy use compared to baseline situations (i.e., without far analogyUse), and far analogies increased the team's concept generation rate comparedto baseline conditions.
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IdeaHound: Improving Large-scale Collaborative Ideation with Crowd-Powered Real-time Semantic Modeling
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This paper introduces IdeaHound, an ideation system that seamlessly integrates the task of defining semantic relationships among ideas into the primary task of idea generation, and creates a more accurate semantic model than an existing crowdsourced approach (performed by external crowds).
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Providing Timely Examples Improves the Quantity and Quality of Generated Ideas
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Insight from this study can inform the design of collective ideation support systems that help people generate many high quality ideas, and emphasize the importance of the timing of example delivery.
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The importance of iteration in creative conceptual combination
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THE MEANING OF "NEAR" AND "FAR": THE IMPACT OF STRUCTURING DESIGN DATABASES AND THE EFFECT OF DISTANCE OF ANALOGY ON DESIGN OUTPUT
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A cognitive engineering design study is presented that examines the effect of the distance of analogical design stimuli on design solution generation, and places those findings in context of results from the literature.
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