Investigating effects of stimuli on ideation outcomes

Srinivasan Venkataraman; Binyang Song; Jianxi Luo; Karupppasamy Subburaj; Mohan Rajesh Elara; Lucienne Blessing; Kristin Wood

Investigating effects of stimuli on ideation outcomes

Srinivasan Venkataraman^*, Binyang Song, Jianxi Luo, Karupppasamy Subburaj, Mohan Rajesh Elara, Lucienne Blessing, Kristin Wood

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This research investigates the effects of using stimuli, such as patents, on ideation outcomes, through the research questions: (a) What is the effect of stimuli on ideation outcomes? and (b) What is the effect of stimuli distance on ideation outcomes? An experiment to address these questions entails an ideation exercise involving 105 participants generating 226 concepts without or with patents and other resources. Significant findings are: (a) more concepts are generated with patents than without patents, (b) more concepts are generated with patents identified by participants on their own than using pre-chosen patents, (c) more concepts are generated using both patents and other resources than other degrees of stimulation, (d) concepts developed using both patents and other resources have higher novelty and quality than concepts generated without any stimuli, and (e) no significant correlations are observed between the proximity of stimuli to problem domains with novelty and quality of concepts. These results have practical implications on using stimuli to improve ideation outcomes for designers, design teams, and organisations, and motivate investigation into the stimuli used.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	309-318
Journal	Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED
Volume	8
Issue number	DS87-8
Publication status	Published - 2017
Externally published	Yes
Event	21st International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED 2017 - Vancouver, Canada Duration: 21 Aug 2017 → 25 Aug 2017

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Conceptual design
Creativity
Design engineering
Patents

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