Do word graphs stimulate design?

Segers, NM Nicole; Vries, de B Bauke; Achten, Henri

doi:10.1016/j.destud.2005.05.002

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“…Analysing the effects of additional stimuli on the design activity of various experimental sessions is a troublesome task, since both, how the design activity unfolds and the results, can be affected by other factors, such as the people involved (Kirton 1994), their level of experience with the problem (Segers et al 2005), the means to express ideas (Van der Lugt 2000, Vidal et al 2004), the problem itself (Goldschmidt and Smolkov 2006) or the working atmosphere. The ideal thing would have been to keep all the factors the same, except for the additional stimuli, in several design sessions and compare the results, but when the same people are involved in several design experiments to solve the same problem, the factor 'level of experience with the problem' inevitably varies from one session to another.…”

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Effects of additional stimuli on idea-finding in design teams

López-Mesa

Mulet

Vidal

et al. 2009

Journal of Engineering Design

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Studying the effects of idea-finding design methods experimentally can provide some light into their degree of usability. An experiment was carried out to study the effects that different stimuli proposed in idea-finding methods have on the design process and outcomes of four design teams, and to compare these effects to those produced by the problem-solving characteristic of the team members. Protocol analysis and outcome-based analysis were carried out. The results of the analysis show that stimuli can have a greater effect on the design activity than the influence of the designers' problem-solving styles in the conditions of the experiment. Stimulus with SCAMPER questions favours refinement of solutions, by using a solution as a frame and the questions as sub-frames. Stimulus with images (related in shape and function with the designed object, and displayed in intervals of time) leads teams to be in a continuous flux of generation of partial solutions.

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Section: Experiments Arrangementmentioning

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Effects of additional stimuli on idea-finding in design teams

López-Mesa

Mulet

Vidal

et al. 2009

Journal of Engineering Design

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“…On the design-by-analogy front, Linsey et al (2012), Segers et al (2005), and Verhaegen et al (2011) develop approaches to analogical retrieval and reasoning through linguistic (semantic word) associations, problem re-representation, and mappings. Shai and Reich (Reich and Shai 2012;Shai and Reich 2004) developed approaches to analogical retrieval of knowledge structures and processes that allow the use of across domains.…”

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Design-by-analogy: experimental evaluation of a functional analogy search methodology for concept generation improvement

Murphy

Yang

et al. 2014

Res Eng Design

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Design-by-analogy is a growing field of study and practice, due to its power to augment and extend traditional concept generation methods by expanding the set of generated ideas using similarity relationships from solutions to analogous problems. This paper presents the results of experimentally testing a new method for extracting functional analogies from general data sources, such as patent databases, to assist designers in systematically seeking and identifying analogies. In summary, the approach produces significantly improved results on the novelty of solutions generated and no significant change in the total quantity of solutions generated. Computationally, this design-by-analogy facilitation methodology uses a novel functional vector space representation to quantify the functional similarity between represented design problems and, in this case, patent descriptions of products. The mapping of the patents into the functional analogous words enables the generation of functionally relevant novel ideas that can be customized in various ways. Overall, this approach provides functionally relevant novel sources of design-byanalogy inspiration to designers and design teams.

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“…Although Segers et al (2005) indicated that word stimulus is more easily ignored than image stimulus in the design ideation process, his study showed the former as more effective in developing ideas. Both words and images are thus important in describing ideation elements in the storyboard format.…”

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“…The latter is strongly associated with sketches, pictures, and figures. However, words seem to receive less attention than images in a majority of design education processes and practices (Segers et al 2005). Segers et al (2005) thinks that designs are developed through a series of sketches, images, annotations, and marks.…”

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“…However, words seem to receive less attention than images in a majority of design education processes and practices (Segers et al 2005). Segers et al (2005) thinks that designs are developed through a series of sketches, images, annotations, and marks. Sketch annotations include comments, questions, descriptions, explanations, expressions, and diagrams.…”

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The relationship between individual characteristics and ideation behavior: an empirical study of storyboards

Teng

Cai

2014

Int J Technol Des Educ

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The development of digital technology tool and the progress of animation design activities have led to great progress in the animation field. The storyboard is a type of media used to present animator ideas. Therefore, it is commonly viewed as fundamental to the animation industry. This study aims to discuss cognitive style-and gender-based differences in word and image idea associations and how to create a story using word and image stimuli. Using a cognitive style index instrument, 104 university freshmen (48 males and 56 females) were classified into the four type groups of male analytic, male intuitive, female analytic, and female intuitive. Each participant was then asked to execute two design tasks: associate word and image ideas (ideational process) and develop a storyboard (ideational outcome). Four experts evaluated outcomes in terms of creativity, structure, and drawing skill. Results show that larger numbers of words and images correlate with good word and image ideas and that analytic females exhibited the greatest level of ideation and intuitive males exhibited the least.

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Do word graphs stimulate design?

Cited by 40 publications

References 6 publications

Effects of additional stimuli on idea-finding in design teams

Effects of additional stimuli on idea-finding in design teams

Design-by-analogy: experimental evaluation of a functional analogy search methodology for concept generation improvement

The relationship between individual characteristics and ideation behavior: an empirical study of storyboards

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