TY - GEN
T1 - Understanding effects of analogical distance on performance of ideation
T2 - ASME 2017 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, IDETC/CIE 2017
AU - Venkataraman, Srinivasan
AU - Song, Binyang
AU - Luo, Jianxi
AU - Subburaj, Karupppasamy
AU - Elara, Mohan Rajesh
AU - Blessing, Lucienne
AU - Wood, Kristin
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PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - The effect of analogical distance between design stimuli and design problem on novelty and quality of generated concepts is investigated in this research. Data from a design project involving 105 student designers, divided into 21 teams and individually generating 226 concepts of spherical rolling robots, is collected. From this data, 138 concepts generated with patents as stimuli and the patents used as stimuli are analyzed. Analogical distance of a patent is measured in terms of the knowledge distance of the technology classes constituting this patent from the technology classes constituting the design problem domain of spherical rolling robots. The key findings are: (a) technology classes in closer than farther distance from the design problem are used more frequently to generate concepts, (b) as analogical distance increases the novelty of concepts increases, and (c) as analogical distance decreases the quality of concepts increases. These observations have implications on choosing stimuli to generate concepts of desired novelty and quality. Copyright © 2017 ASME.
AB - The effect of analogical distance between design stimuli and design problem on novelty and quality of generated concepts is investigated in this research. Data from a design project involving 105 student designers, divided into 21 teams and individually generating 226 concepts of spherical rolling robots, is collected. From this data, 138 concepts generated with patents as stimuli and the patents used as stimuli are analyzed. Analogical distance of a patent is measured in terms of the knowledge distance of the technology classes constituting this patent from the technology classes constituting the design problem domain of spherical rolling robots. The key findings are: (a) technology classes in closer than farther distance from the design problem are used more frequently to generate concepts, (b) as analogical distance increases the novelty of concepts increases, and (c) as analogical distance decreases the quality of concepts increases. These observations have implications on choosing stimuli to generate concepts of desired novelty and quality. Copyright © 2017 ASME.
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U2 - 10.1115/DETC2017-67752
DO - 10.1115/DETC2017-67752
M3 - RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)
SN - 9780791858219
VL - 7
T3 - Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference
BT - 29th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Y2 - 6 August 2017 through 9 August 2017
ER -