Fundamental Studies of Generating Concepts Through Design-by-Analogy

通过类比设计生成概念的基础研究

• 批准号: 0555851
• 负责人: Kristin Wood
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-06-01 至 2010-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0555851&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Fundamental; Studies; Generating; Concepts; Through

This project seeks to investigate, develop, test, and deploy innovative design methods for generating concepts through analogies. Design-by-analogy is the area of idea generation in which proven solutions from a given domain provide visual, aesthetic, geometric, or functional similarity for use in another problem domain. The existence of this area is noted throughout recorded history. The first steam locomotives, for example, were based on analogies to the horse-drawn stagecoach. While the existence of analogies as inspiration for creative design is well known, the cognitive processes used in design-by-analogy, especially for complex problems such as in engineering, is far from understood. This gap in the research provides a unique opportunity to form a collaboration between two disciplines, engineering and psychology. Through this collaboration, the work on design-by-analogy will develop fundamental experimental data, principles, and techniques for enhancing both designer's and industry's ability to create and innovate.The research involves a series of experiments in design-by-analogy using subjects with an engineering background. In the first phase, three parallel experiments will be executed. These experiments will determine the appropriate representations for potential base domains for analogies (such as physical products, diagrams, and/or word descriptions), preferred depictions of analogies, such as functions for identifying possible analogies, and concept generation media, such as manipulatives for expressing design-by-analogy ideas. The results of these experiments, in the form of principles, will be integrated into a systematic design method to enhance the quality of the designs. Experiments with this method will explore its efficacy both with individuals and teams. Learning modules for concept generation will be created and assessed at a number of U.S. Universities. Assessments will be performed across ethnic, gender, and economic boundaries. Results will be distributed for general academic use and will be shared with industry to interject tested approaches for improving timely innovation.

该项目旨在调查，开发，测试和部署通过类比产生概念的创新设计方法。 类比设计是一种概念生成的方法，在这种方法中，来自一个给定领域的经过验证的解决方案提供了视觉、美学、几何或功能上的相似性，可用于另一个问题领域。 这个地区的存在在整个历史记录中都有记载。 例如，第一台蒸汽机车就是基于对马拉公共马车的类比。 虽然类比作为创意设计灵感的存在是众所周知的，但类比设计中使用的认知过程，特别是对于工程等复杂问题，还远未被理解。 研究中的这一差距提供了一个独特的机会，形成两个学科，工程学和心理学之间的合作。 通过这种合作，类比设计的工作将开发基本的实验数据，原则和技术，以提高设计师和行业的创造和创新能力。研究涉及一系列类比设计的实验，使用具有工程背景的主题。 在第一阶段，将进行三个平行实验。 这些实验将确定适当的表示为潜在的基本域类比（如物理产品，图表，和/或文字描述），类比的首选解释，如功能识别可能的类比，和概念生成媒体，如用于表达设计类比的想法操纵。 这些实验的结果，以原则的形式，将被整合到一个系统的设计方法，以提高设计的质量。 用这种方法进行的实验将探索其在个人和团队中的有效性。 概念生成的学习模块将在一些美国大学创建和评估。 评估将跨越种族、性别和经济界限进行。 研究结果将被分发用于一般学术用途，并将与工业界分享，以插入经过测试的方法，以改善及时的创新。