Major Collaborative Proposal: CreativeIT: Understanding the Creative Design Process: A Novel Cognitive Model Based on Behavioral Experiments in Circuit Design and Architecture.

主要合作提案：CreativeIT：理解创意设计过程：基于电路设计和架构行为实验的新颖认知模型。

• 批准号: 0855825
• 负责人: Paul Paulus
• 金额: $ 19.53万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Arlington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-08-15 至 2014-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0855825&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Major; Collaborative; Proposal; CreativeIT; Understanding

The project plans to develop a cognitive model that helps understand, emulate and enhance creativity in conceptual electronic circuit design. Insight into creativity in circuit design is gained from novel behavioral experiments that investigate one main engine of creativity, that of generating conceptual combinations with emergent features, within and across three different areas: analog circuit design, architecture, and general domain. The work studies the impact of constraints and repeated iterations of the design task on the creativity of the solutions. Behavioral experiments in circuit design and architecture will be modeled after the guidelines developed for the general domain. Experiments in circuit design will study additive and non-additive conceptual combinations when designing new electronic circuits, such as modern operational transconductor amplifiers. Experiments in architecture will study, for example, the design of pedestrian bridges with a movable opening. Based on experiments, a cognitive model will be developed for generating iteratively novel conceptual combinations with emergent features. The work is motivated by electronic circuit design being an expensive activity, accessible only to a small group of experts. There are arguably no methods to improve creativity in circuit design. This is an important limitation as electronic circuits are essential in healthcare, environmental monitoring, infrastructure management, telecommunication, and many other areas. The research is expected to lead to new, creativity-oriented design methodologies of superior productivity. The gained insights can also form the basis of original computer-aided design tools that invent novel circuits, a capability far beyond the tasks performed by current tools. The perspective on how novel conceptual combinations are generated and utilized can be used to develop new methods of instruction in electrical engineering, architecture and computer science.This work is funded by SBE within the CreativeIT Program.

该项目计划开发一个认知模型，帮助理解，模仿和提高概念电子电路设计的创造力。深入了解电路设计中的创造力是从新颖的行为实验中获得的，这些实验研究了创造力的一个主要引擎，即在三个不同的领域内和跨三个不同的领域：模拟电路设计，架构和一般领域生成具有紧急功能的概念组合。这项工作研究的影响，约束和重复迭代的设计任务的创造性的解决方案。在电路设计和架构的行为实验将仿照一般领域开发的指导方针。电路设计实验将研究设计新的电子电路时，如现代运算跨导放大器的添加剂和非添加剂的概念组合。例如，建筑学实验将研究带有活动开口的人行天桥的设计。在实验的基础上，将开发一个认知模型，用于迭代生成具有涌现特征的新概念组合。这项工作的动机是电子电路设计是一项昂贵的活动，只有一小群专家才能进入。可以说，没有任何方法可以提高电路设计的创造力。这是一个重要的限制，因为电子电路在医疗保健、环境监测、基础设施管理、电信和许多其他领域中至关重要。这项研究有望导致新的，创造性的设计方法的上级生产力。所获得的见解也可以形成原始计算机辅助设计工具的基础，这些工具可以发明新颖的电路，这一能力远远超出了当前工具所执行的任务。关于如何产生和利用新颖概念组合的观点可用于开发电气工程，建筑和计算机科学的新教学方法。这项工作由SBE在CreativeIT计划中资助。