The importance of retrieval in creative design analogies

Abstract

Analogy is an important reasoning process in creative design. It enables the generation of new design artifacts using ideas from semantically distant domains. Candidate selection is a crucial process in the generation of creative analogies. Without a good set of candidate sources, the success of subsequent phases can be compromised. Two main types of selection have been identified: semantics-based retrieval and structure-based retrieval. This paper presents an empirical study on the importance of the analogy retrieval strategy in the domain of software design. We argue that both types of selection are important, but they play different roles in the process.

A literature review on individual creativity support systems

“…There are many studies focused on idea finding in specific domains: most notably engineering design and innovation (e.g., Hori, 1997;Gero, 2000;Gomes et al, 2006;McCaffrey & Spector, 2011;Sedivy & Johnson, 2000), and product design (e.g., Chakrabarti et al, 2005;Gerber & Martin, 2012).…”

“…This visualization of concept space facilitates the generation of design strategies by users. Using analogies to support software design was studied by Gomes et al (2006). A case library that stores previous software designs was available to provide analogy candidates.…”

Impact of Analogical Images on Solving Scientific and Environmental Problems Creatively

“…Analogical reasoning is a method of solving problems creatively. Analogy enables the individual to transfer ideas across domains (Gomes, Seco, Pereira, Paiva, Carreiro, & Ferreira, 2006). These creative acts created by the imagination, and such analogies could be considered as the result of a relation established in the mind through a process of selective emphasis (Bonnardel, 2000).…”

“…Furthermore, a study By Novick and Holyoak (1991) showed the significant impact of analogy on solving mathematical problems. Gomes et al (2006) conducted six experiments for choosing the most effective strategy for use through analogy. They used are trieval process to study thecor relation between analogical retrieval strategies and creative properties of generated diagrams in the soft ware design domain.…”

Measuring Semantic Similarity of Word Pairs Using Path and Information Content

“…It has been successfully applied in word sense disambiguation [1], information extraction [2], semantic annotation and summarization [3][4], recommender system [5], question answering [6], and so on. Besides this, it also shows its talents in software domain [ 7] and bio-informatics domain [8]. Therefore a proper metric is curial for improving the performance of the bulk of applications relying on it.…”