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Open AccessIterative transformations for deeper exploration during concept generation
Engineering designers often generate multiple concepts to increase novelty and diversity among early solution candidates. Many past studies have focused on creating new concepts “from scratch;” however, design...
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Idea characteristics arising from individual brainstorming and design heuristics ideation methods
Ideation methods and outcomes have been evaluated in a variety of ways. Our study extends existing work through a qualitative analysis of idea characteristics based on the ideation method used. Beginning engin...
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Open AccessCausal theory error in college students’ understanding of science studies
When reasoning about science studies, people often make causal theory errors by inferring or accepting a causal claim based on correlational evidence. While humans naturally think in terms of causal relationships...
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Open AccessA case study of a conservation flagship species: the monarch butterfly
What makes a flagship species effective in engaging conservation donors? Large, charismatic mammals are typically selected as ambassadors, but a few studies suggest butterflies—and monarchs in particular—may b...
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Open AccessPrototy** for context: exploring stakeholder feedback based on prototype type, stakeholder group and question type
Engineering designers frequently use prototypes to gather input from stakeholders. Design guidelines recommend the use of quick and simple prototypes early and often in a design process. However, the type and ...
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Transforming early concepts with Design Heuristics
Idea development in the early phases of the design process often involves the transformation of initial concepts into more feasible alternatives. However, this important component of design activity is often u...
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Using creative exhaustion to foster idea generation
Numerous studies have shown the value of introducing cognitive supports to encourage the development of creative ability, and researchers have developed a variety of methods to aid in generating ideas. However...
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Teaching Design Innovation Skills: Design Heuristics Support Creating, Develo**, and Combining Ideas
An innovative idea generation process explores a variety of diverse design ideas. While challenging to achieve even for expert designers, support tools can assist designers as they learn to generate more ideas...
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Open AccessUsing design strategies from microfluidic device patents to support idea generation
Microfluidics has been an important method in providing answers to a wide variety of research questions in chemistry, biochemistry, and biology. Microfluidic designers benefit from instructional textbooks desc...
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A Comparison of Cognitive Heuristics Use between Engineers and Industrial Designers
The present study focuses on an exploration and identification of design heuristics used in the ideation process in both industrial designers and engineering designers. Design heuristics are cognitive strategi...
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Design Heuristics: Cognitive Strategies for Creativity in Idea Generation
This paper explores the use of heuristics as cognitive strategies invoked during the process of design. We propose new heuristics for design that provide ways to explore the problem space of potential designs,...
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Cased-Based Reasoning by Human Experts
The central insight that led to the field of Case-Based Reasoning was that human memory appears to be organized around individual episodic experiences (Schank, 1982; Kolodner, 1980). At the time, there were fe...
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Case-based learning: Predictive features in indexing
Interest in psychological experimentation from the Artificial Intelligence community often takes the form of rigorous post-hoc evaluation of completed computer models. Through an example of our own collaborati...
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Case-Based Learning: Predictive Features in Indexing
Interest in psychological experimentation from the Artificial Intelligence community often takes the form of rigorous post-hoc evaluation of completed computer models. Through an example of our own collaborati...
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Memory for impasses during problem solving
Three experiments were conducted to investigate the relative memorability of solved versus unsolved problems in long-term memory. In each experiment, subjects worked on a set of potentially solvable word probl...
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Opportunism and Learning
There is a tension in the world between complexity and simplicity. On one hand, we are faced with a richness of environment and experience that is at times overwhelming. On the other, we seem to be able to cop...
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A Cognitive Science Approach to Case-Based Planning
In this chapter, we will review our current work in case-based approaches to planning. Our research examines the organization and structure of episodic memory as determined by its functional role in guiding re...
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Opportunism and Learning
There is a tension in the world between complexity and simplicity. On one hand, we are faced with a richness of environment and experience that is at times overwhelming. On the other, we seem to be able to cop...
