The role of precedents in increasing creativity during iterative design of electronic embedded systems

Doboli, Alex; Umbarkar, Anurag

doi:10.1016/j.destud.2014.01.001

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“…This, in turn, has a twofold consequence. For what concerns the research in design creativity, this triggers the need to carry out further studies (with new and fresh large dataset) to compare the effects of structured and singular precedents, as the results of this study substantially show an opposite behaviour compared to what recorded by Doboli and Umbarkar (2014). On the other hand, differently from the engineering procedure, which has just a structured textual set of instructions to follow, both trends and patents were both in textual and pictorial form.…”

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confidence: 89%

“…organized into abstract categories or paired to highlight similarities and dissimilarities), on the contrary, show a generally positive impact on the different dimensions of design creativity. A relatively recent contribution by Doboli & Umbarkar (2014), not included in table 3, considers both structural and singular precedents and for both these stimuli they noticed no specific effects on novelty (except for the stimulation with set of new requirements for which the correlation is positive) or variety (except for a slight reduction of idea diversity with generic precedents). On the contrary, the recorded a general improvement of idea quality (and utility/usefulness) due to the exposition of creative stimuli.…”

Section: Design Precedentsmentioning

confidence: 93%

“…Linsey et al (2010) studied the effect of a collection of examples of other technical systems, distinguishing close or far domains with reference to the target technical system. Others focused on hints for considering requirements (Downing, 2003), templates describing an entire class of solutions (Senbel et al, 2013) or hints about specific characteristics of prior solutions or other examples such as function and behaviour (Doboli & Umbarkar, 2014). Such kind of studies usually measures the effects of stimulation directly on design proposals, e.g.…”

Section: Design Precedentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Nevertheless, most of the existing literature that deals with inspiration to generate novel and high quality ideas explored the effects of creative stimulation with experiments that just involved students (e.g. Zahner et al, 2010;Tseng et al, 2008;Doboli et Umbarkar, 2014), highlighting that tailored methods and tools for R&D engineers to face this highly creative design activity are still lacking. With a more professional-oriented perspective, one of the closest contributions available in literature deal with the application of solution-oriented technology forecasting techniques (Cascini, 2012), despite this is originally a more strategy-oriented activity.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Sources of creativity stimulation for designing the next generation of technical systems: correlations with R&D designers’ performance

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This paper presents the outcomes of an exploratory research to clarify the performance of R&D designers when involved in design task for the ideation of the next generation of a technical system. The research aims also at clarifying if creative stimuli play a role in supporting ideation after idea generativity decreases because of natural exhaustion or the emergence of fixation. The effect of precedents (singular as patents, and structural as technology evolution trends), as well as design strategies (in the form of a design procedure for inventive problem solving) on idea generation, is compared by means of an experiment involving 24 R&D Iranian engineers. Precedents demonstrated to be more effective than design strategies in supporting productivity in idea generation, while generally they are not effective enough to support the generation of candidate ideas for the next generation of a technical system with a robust repeatability. The main recorded lacks depend on the capabilities of creative stimuli to support the generation of novel ideas, as they are generally effective in providing good results with reference to technical plausibility and relevance for a target audience. The results of the experiment are also discussed with reference to the efficiency of the design process (number of generated ideas per time unit). The outcomes of such studies, as part of a broader research objective, serve as input to support the development of a serious game to support R&D engineers to face design tasks for the next generation of technical systems with higher motivation and engagement, providing them with an improved design experience.

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“…Whereas novice designers were seen to sketch to focus early on concrete forms and design solutions, experts tend to use this tool mainly with the aim of generating ideas and concepts [51,68]. In this regard, more experienced designers are prone to make use of abstract symbolic references to represent their designs, while novices employ formal geometric descriptions more frequently [69]. As the process develops, experts produce representations at various levels of detail, including both conceptual designs and solutions with technical elements [70].…”

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Insights from a Latent Semantic Analysis of Patterns in Design Expertise: Implications for Education

Casakin

Singh

2019

Education Sciences

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Design and design thinking are increasingly being taught across several disciplines-ranging from arts, architecture, and technology and engineering to business schools-where expertise plays a central role. A substantial corpus of literature on research in regard to design expert and design expertise has accumulated in the last decades. However, in spite of its importance for design and design education, the topic has remained largely unframed. A major goal of this study was to carry out an assessment of literature through leading interdisciplinary design journals in order to identify main topics and categorize them into thematic patterns concerned with expertise in design. A structured assessment approach based on Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) was used over 861 abstracts. The emerging thematic patterns associated with design expertise allowed a categorization at different levels of detail, which included 80, 50, 20, and 12 factors analyses, respectively. The major contribution of the study was to offer a structured assessment of key design literature that enabled to gain a clearer and more comprehensive understanding of the thematic patterns in the discussion on design expertise. Implications of the identified key factors for design education are discussed. Educ. Sci. 2019, 9, 208 2 of 23 task, especially as a comprehensive manual process. Typically, manual literature review involves a pre-selection of key articles that is often based on search criteria such as the number of citations of an article. This type of review approach, while insightful and quite common, is prone to be subjective and limiting in terms of the number of articles that can be covered. The potential tendency to focus on the more cited and influential papers might develop into a bias towards representative literature. In this study, we distinguish between critical review and the review of thematic patterns in the distribution and occurrence of the dominant themes in literature. Thus, instead of conducting a subjective evaluation regarding which themes are more important than others, a major goal of the present study is to use a semantic text analysis approach to carry out a quantitative and objective assessment to identify how the dominant themes appear across the corpus of assessed design literature. We would like to understand the main trends and topics associated with design expertise, and whether and how these can be organized and categorized into main thematic patterns. Eventually, understanding what topics relate to what kind of patterns, and at what level of detail may enable to gain a deeper understanding of what constitutes design expertise. A semantic analysis of existing literature can also provide further hints about what are the important issues that design students, educators, and practitioners should be aware of in regard to the development of expertise.The frequency and occurrence of themes will be assessed through semantic grouping of the keywords using techniques such as Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA), which is a text dat...

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Socio‐Economic Status and Creativity: A Meta‐Analysis

Acar

Tadik²,

Uysal

et al. 2022

Journal of Creative Behavior

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In the present study, we examined the relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and creativity through a meta-analysis of 885 effect sizes from 151 samples in 117 studies. Analyses of a multivariate model with a robust variance estimator showed a small positive correlation between creativity and SES (r = .120, 95% CI [0.086, 0.154]). Further analyses with four groups of moderators (i.e., creativity measure, SES indicator, sample characteristics, and study characteristics) indicated that the mean effect size is significantly higher when the creativity index is flexibility rather than fluency or when SES is measured by parental or one's own level of education and parental occupation rather than the location of residency. In addition, the relationship between creativity and SES dissipated as the students progressed from elementary school through college. The potential role of schooling in the creativity-SES link is discussed.

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The role of precedents in increasing creativity during iterative design of electronic embedded systems

Cited by 30 publications

References 52 publications

Sources of creativity stimulation for designing the next generation of technical systems: correlations with R&D designers’ performance

Sources of creativity stimulation for designing the next generation of technical systems: correlations with R&D designers’ performance

Insights from a Latent Semantic Analysis of Patterns in Design Expertise: Implications for Education

Socio‐Economic Status and Creativity: A Meta‐Analysis

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