Creativity in design teams: the influence of personality traits and risk attitudes on creative concept selection

Toh, Christine A.; Miller, Scarlett R.

doi:10.1007/s00163-015-0207-y

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“…These measures need to be developed and validated for use in design disciplines. In fact, this proposition is argued in another study (Toh & Miller, 2016). Moreover, we acknowledge that our interview results did not allow us to provide a clear-cut insight concerning the effect of design ambiguity on the students.…”

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confidence: 67%

“…Actually, a recently published paper studied the ambiguity and risk aversion of 38 undergraduate engineering students and their design ability. The researchers concluded that ambiguity aversion was important in the phase of generating creative ideas but not in selecting/assessing creative ideas (a subsequent phase) (Toh & Miller, 2016). In addition, students' project grades were not found to be significantly correlated with their divergent thinking abilities (TTCT scores).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…Then they attended a design session and were required to design a novel device to forth milk. The findings indicated that teams who score more on ambiguity tolerance tended to generate concepts that are more creative (Toh & Miller, 2016). Hence, it is argued that art and design pedagogies must offer ways to approach complexity and interact with openness and uncertainty to enable the graduates to negotiate the ambiguity of design situations (Austerlitz et al, 2008).…”

Section: Tolerance Of Ambiguitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Relationship Between Tolerance of Ambiguity and Creativity in Architectural Design Studio

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Creativity is a cognitive ability that enables individuals to come up with both original and functional ideas and products. As architectural design requires producing aesthetic and practically useful solutions, it is a primary concern to enhance creativity in design disciplines. Many theorists argued that design is a non-linear process and many components of design problems are not clear at the beginning. At the start of the process, designers are always working at the periphery of a solution space where there is less coherence and more ambiguity. Thus, they must deal with a lot of ambiguity in every design situation. These states of uncertainty and confusion can be annoying for architecture students. On the other hand, tolerance of ambiguity is a personality trait that has been linked to creative thinking. Therefore, this paper attempts to investigate the correlation between tolerance of ambiguity of architectural students and their creativity via a qualitative study. The researchers implemented a mixed-method approach and recruited 18 architecture students. The results from this study revealed that there is a significant correlation between students’ creative thinking abilities and their tolerance for ambiguity. Our results also indicated that there is no statistically significant correlation between students’ tolerance of ambiguity and their design creativity.

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“…In the engineering design literature, human evaluators commonly assess design metrics manually (Fu et al, 2010;Gosnell and Miller, 2015;Gyory et al, 2019;Song, Lopez, et al, 2017b;Toh and Miller, 2016). A variety of different metrics can be assessed including, but not limited to, quality, novelty, quantity, feasibility, and usefulness of design ideas.…”

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Exploring the Application of Network Analytics in Characterizing a Conceptual Design Space

Gyory¹,

Goucher-Lambert²,

Kotovsky³

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Proc. Int. Conf. Eng. Des.

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The ability to effectively analyse design concepts is essential for making early stage design decisions. Human evaluations, the most common assessment method, describe individual design concepts on a variety of ideation metrics. However, this approach falls short in creating a holistic representation of the design space as a whole that informs the underlying relations between concepts. Motivated by this shortcoming, this work leverages network theory to visualize and characterize features of a conceptual design space. To illustrate the utility of network theory for these purposes, a network composed of a corpus of solutions to a design problem and their semantic similarity is derived, and its design properties (e.g., uniqueness and innovation potential) are studied. This network-based approach not only characterizes features of individual designs themselves, but also uncovers more nuanced properties of the design space through studying emerging clusters of concepts. Overall, this work expands on developing research in design, demonstrating the value in applying network analytics to a conceptual design space as an engineering support tool to aid design decision-making.

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“…While not specifically studied in the context of creativity throughout the design process, previous research on students' concept selection processes has shown that students often value technical feasibility during the concept selection process [18,38] and select feasible and desirable ideas at the cost of originality [39]. In addition, concept selection has been shown to be largely subject to individual attributes [40], risk taking attitudes [16,41,42], and various cognitive biases and heuristics, such as design fixation [43][44][45], ownership bias [17,46], and the bias against creativity [47]. Specifically, individuals have been said to have an inherent bias against creative ideas due to the risk and uncertainties of creative ideas [39,48], and their judgment of originality has been found to be negatively related to judgments of appropriateness [49].…”

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How Concept Selection Tools Impact the Development of Creative Ideas in Engineering Design Education

Zheng

Ritter

Miller

2018

Journal of Mechanical Design

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Concept selection tools have been heavily integrated into engineering design education in an effort to reduce the risks and uncertainties of early-phase design ideas and aid students in the decision-making process. However, little research has examined the utility of these tools in promoting creative ideas or their impact on student team decision making throughout the conceptual design process. To fill this research gap, the current study was designed to compare the impact of two concept selection tools, the concept selection matrix (CSM) and the tool for assessing semantic creativity (TASC) on the average quality (AQL) and average novelty (ANV) of ideas selected by student teams at several decision points throughout an 8-week project. The results of the study showed that the AQL increased significantly in the detailed design stage, while the ANV did not change. However, this change in idea quality was not significantly impacted by the concept selection tool used, suggesting other factors may impact student decision making and the development of creative ideas. Finally, student teams were found to select ideas ranked highly in concept selection tools only when these ideas met their expectations, indicating that cognitive biases may be significantly impeding decision making.

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Creativity in design teams: the influence of personality traits and risk attitudes on creative concept selection

Cited by 53 publications

References 76 publications

The Relationship Between Tolerance of Ambiguity and Creativity in Architectural Design Studio

The Relationship Between Tolerance of Ambiguity and Creativity in Architectural Design Studio

Exploring the Application of Network Analytics in Characterizing a Conceptual Design Space

How Concept Selection Tools Impact the Development of Creative Ideas in Engineering Design Education

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