The Impact of Analogies on Creative Concept Generation: Lessons From an<i>In Vivo</i>Study in Engineering Design

Chan, Joel; Schunn, Christian D.

doi:10.1111/cogs.12127

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“…This can lead to incremental changes that in turn become innovations, or breakthrough ideas (Chan & Schunn, 2014). Empathizing is also a studied approach which, like the use of analogies, provides a means for others to understand the innovation.…”

Section: What Is Creativity?mentioning

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“…Since traditional tests are primarily concerned with divergent thinking, some of the more whole-picture creativity measures set forth in the TCT-DP do not have direct links to the traditional measures. As such, Jellen and Bugingo (1989) (Guilford, 1967a;Guilford, Creativity, 1950;Guilford, Three faces of intellect., 1959;Cropley, 2000;Clapham, 1997;Clapham & Schuster, 1992;Runco, Millar, Acar, & Cramond, 2010;Kim, 2011 Need to explore and understand the known and unknown (Harrison, 2016;Hunter, Abraham, Hunter, Goldberg, & Eastwood, 2016;Windahl, 2017;Litman, 2005) Ne New Elements Originality Ability to generate novel ideas (George & Zhou, 2001;Wutrich & Bates, 2001;Furham, 1999;Perrine & Brodersen, 2005;Dollinger, Urban, & James, 2004;Feist, 2010) Ability to coalesce multiple ideas into one (Runco & Nemiro, 1994;Belski, 2009;English, 1997;Lai, Roan, Greenberg, & Yang, 2008;Ozyurt & Ozyurt, 2015;Wakefield, 1985;Rostan, 1994 Capacity for emotional transference (Genco, Johnson, Holtta-Otto, & Conner Seepersad, 2011;Chan & Schunn, 2014;Gardner & Winner, 1982;Piirto, 2004;Kohn, Paulus, & Korde, 2011;Mednick, 1962 Ability to take action in the face of the unknown (Eisenman, 1987;Pankove & Kogan, 1968;Sternberg, 2012;Steele...…”

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An Investigation of the State of Creativity and Critical Thinking in Engineering Undergraduates

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The goal of an undergraduate engineering education is to provide students with the necessary knowledge and skills needed to solve real world problems. Creativity and critical thinking are two abilities essential for success in the workplace, and are highly sought after by employers. However, there is evidence of decreasing creativity and critical thinking in senior engineering students. This study sought to understand if freshman engineering students are measurably more creative, but less capable of critical thinking, than senior undergraduate engineering students. Creativity and critical thinking were measured using the Test for Creative Thinking-Drawing Production (TCT-DP) and the Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal (WGCTA), respectively. The data suggest that freshman engineering students were significantly more creative than senior engineering students. However, senior engineering students were found to be no better at critical thinking than their freshman counterparts. When compared to normative data, the senior engineering students underperformed significantly compared to the general population of senior college students. With study limitations in mind, these findings may suggest that senior engineering students are not only less creative, but also less capable of critical thinking, than when they started their engineering program. If this is indeed the appropriate conclusion, then there is a need to understand the underlying issues driving the decline of creativity and critical thinking in engineering undergraduate students.

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Section: What Is Creativity?mentioning

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Section: Evaluating Creativitymentioning

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An Investigation of the State of Creativity and Critical Thinking in Engineering Undergraduates

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Hoekstra²,

Fiore³

et al. 2017

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“…En outre, les études sur la créativité et les personnalités créatives comprennent aujourd'hui non seulement la catégorie des artistes, des poètes, des romanciers (Patrick, 1937 ;Doyle, 1998) mais aussi les inventeurs et les scientiiques (Chan et Schunn, 2015 ;Hadamard, 1945 ;Weber et Perkins, 1992) sans négliger les personnalités multicréatives, à la fois artistiques et scientiiques.…”

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“…Prior research has found that examples are most inspirational if they are diverse [18,44] and/or appropriate to their current context [18]. Examples can also increase creativity by supporting exploration of iterations and variations on a solution approach [7,27,46], which can lead to not just higher quality [13], but also more novel ideas [35,41]. In contrast, poorly chosen examples can even harm ideation, by inducing distraction [36] or fixation [19,23].…”

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Proceedings of the 29th Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

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Prior work on creativity support tools demonstrates how a computational semantic model of a solution space can enable interventions that substantially improve the number, quality and diversity of ideas. However, automated semantic modeling often falls short when people contribute short text snippets or sketches. Innovation platforms can employ humans to provide semantic judgments to construct a semantic model, but this relies on external workers completing a large number of tedious micro tasks. This requirement threatens both accuracy (external workers may lack expertise and context to make accurate semantic judgments) and scalability (external workers are costly). In this paper, we introduce IDEAHOUND, an ideation system that seamlessly integrates the task of defining semantic relationships among ideas into the primary task of idea generation. The system combines implicit human actions with machine learning to create a computational semantic model of the emerging solution space. The integrated nature of these judgments allows IDEAHOUND to leverage the expertise and efforts of participants who are already motivated to contribute to idea generation, overcoming the issues of scalability inherent to existing approaches. Our results show that participants were equally willing to use (and just as productive using) IDEAHOUND compared to a conventional platform that did not require organizing ideas. Our integrated crowdsourcing approach also creates a more accurate semantic model than an existing crowdsourced approach (performed by external crowds). We demonstrate how this model enables helpful creative interventions: providing diverse inspirational examples, providing similar ideas for a given idea and providing a visual overview of the solution space.

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The Impact of Analogies on Creative Concept Generation: Lessons From anIn VivoStudy in Engineering Design

Cited by 86 publications

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An Investigation of the State of Creativity and Critical Thinking in Engineering Undergraduates

An Investigation of the State of Creativity and Critical Thinking in Engineering Undergraduates

En guise de préambule : vers une anthropologie de la créativité poétique

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