Comparing entropy measures of idea links in design protocols: Linkography entropy measurement and analysis of differently conditioned design sessions

Kan, Jeff W. T.; Bilda, Zafer; Gero, John S.

doi:10.1017/s0890060407000339

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“…Linkography research reported that the most creative and productive works, highly evaluated by the experts, had denser and more integrated structure of Linkographs (Goldschmidt & Tatsa, 2005;Van der Lugt, 2003). Moreover, Linkograph metrics were found to reflect the differences between expert and novice designers (Cai, Do, & Zimring, 2010;Kan, Bilda, & Gero, 2007).…”

Section: Creative Processes During a Collaborative Drawing Task In Tementioning

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Creative Processes during a Collaborative Drawing Task in Teams of Different Specializations

Blazhenkova¹,

Kozhevnikov²

2020

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The present research examined creative drawing processes in teams of gifted adolescents with different educational specializations, including teams with homogeneous (the same specialization) and heterogeneous (mixed specialization) composition. Based on the converging evidence from protocol and Linkography analyses, we identified the differences in frequency and dynamic distribution of distinct creative processes between the different teams specializing in visual art, natural science, humanities, as well as mixed specialization teams. Visualization processes played a crucial role for visual art, science, mixed, but not for humanities teams. All teams except humanities had visual planning earlier in the creative process. Visual artists' visualization processes developed prominently and continuously throughout all stages of creative production with the main focus on visual aesthetics while for scientists, they developed more discreetly, and in conjunction with understanding of function. Mixed and visual art teams shared many similarities, and they had the highest level of integration between the ideas expressed during their creative processes. Mixed team had higher frequency of organizational processes, indicating coordination and organization challenges due to their diversity. The results of this research show the importance of considering differences in visualization profiles while composing teams of different specializations.

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Section: Creative Processes During a Collaborative Drawing Task In Tementioning

confidence: 99%

Creative Processes during a Collaborative Drawing Task in Teams of Different Specializations

Blazhenkova¹,

Kozhevnikov²

2020

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“…Similarly, a quantitative tool was implemented to interpret the linkography using entropy. 20 Kan and Gero 24 also evaluated the entropy of Shannon's information theory as a tool for measuring the creativity of design in a protocol analysis method. In addition, a method was developed for measuring the design process and correlating through assessing the design outcome using a linkography analysis technique in a protocol study.…”

Section: Linkography and The Design Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pen-and-paper versus digital sketching in architectural design education

Heidari

Polatoğlu

2019

International Journal of Architectural Computing

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This study aimed to compare and evaluate the digital-based sketching versus conventional pen-and-paper sketching through conducting an experiment via protocol study in educational field. To this aim, the linkography analysis technique was used to obatin the related data from the protocol study. Linkography technique allows analyzing design as a system and is capable of tracing the design ideas and their connections; therefore, it facilitated the purposes of the current study. The results demonstrated that designers had a richer design process and more opportunities for generating ideas in the pen-and-paper sketching versus digital sketching. Furthermore, the designers’ performance in the digital media with two-dimensional sketching software was more satisfactory than the digital session with three-dimensional sketching software. However, digital media encouraged designers to make more integration among the ideas.

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“…A small entropy fluctuation reflects the staged concept concentration or new potential concepts. 25,26 Therefore, entropy fluctuation can represent the transition, new, or isolated concept during a design cognition process.…”

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Visualization analysis of the cognitive characteristics of service designers based on linkography

Zhang

2019

Advances in Mechanical Engineering

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The cognitive characteristics of service designers in the design process were analyzed from the perspective of semantic linkages, and the visualization expression method of the cognitive characteristics of service designers was proposed to address the problem of absent references for constructing a high-efficiency service design team from a design cognition. The proposed method mainly determined the cognitive activity level of designers through link entropy, which was calculated on the basis of linkography. The proposed method also quantified the degrees of interaction and cooperation among designers from the cognitive activity relationship of the design team, which was constructed on the basis of linkography. An experiment based on design of transport service for thin-walled parts was conducted. Results showed that the proposed method can quantify a design cognition process, analyze cognitive features of designers effectively, and determine the compatibility among designers. The cognitive features of designers will provide scientific references for optimizing the design team.

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Comparing entropy measures of idea links in design protocols: Linkography entropy measurement and analysis of differently conditioned design sessions

Cited by 18 publications

References 17 publications

Creative Processes during a Collaborative Drawing Task in Teams of Different Specializations

Creative Processes during a Collaborative Drawing Task in Teams of Different Specializations

Pen-and-paper versus digital sketching in architectural design education

Visualization analysis of the cognitive characteristics of service designers based on linkography

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