Impacting Designer Creativity Through It-Enabled Concept Generation
Abstract
One of the innovation’s fundamental mechanisms, designer creativity, is both unsupported by rigorous information-technology-enabled tools and uncharacterized as a scientific phenomenon. In this paper, we present VISUALIZEIT —a project seeking to identify a scientific basis and develop the supporting cyberinfrastructure needed to facilitate, evaluate, and disseminate information-technology-enabled innovation methodologies that augment designer creativity. This particular research paper describes a method of synthesizing concept representations through the development and expansion of platforms focused on computational concept generation, clustering of design concepts, a repository of archived design knowledge, and an information integration and representation interface. We also present the initial results from implementing VISUALIZEIT using two populations of students.
Recommended Citation
K. English et al., "Impacting Designer Creativity Through It-Enabled Concept Generation," Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Jan 2010.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1115/1.3484089
Department(s)
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Keywords and Phrases
Creativity; Design
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
1530-9827
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2010 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), All rights reserved.
Publication Date
01 Jan 2010
