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Collaborative Research: Neuro-Cognitive Feedback to Enhance Engineering Design of Systems

协作研究：增强系统工程设计的神经认知反馈

基本信息

批准号：
2128026
负责人：
John Gero
金额：
$ 29.98万
依托单位：
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2021-11-01 至 2024-10-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2128026&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Collaborative Research Neuro Cognitive Feedback

项目摘要

Engineering design is a critical process to ensure national health, prosperity, and welfare. An important step during engineering design is the generation of new ideas. Anything that enriches this step can help improve outcomes that benefit society. However, the generation of new ideas tends to peak early and decline over time during the engineering design process. This can prevent innovation because engineers tend to fixate on older ideas instead of generating new ones. To help engineers sustain their ability to generate new ideas, this project will test a novel solution through the self-regulation of brain activation. Neuro-cognitive feedback measures change in blood flow in the brain and visually provides this information on a computer screen to designers, who are asked to keep their brain activation high through self-regulation. Neuro-cognitive feedback can improve cognitive performance by making information about hidden brain states accessible. Neuro-cognitive feedback has the potential to help design engineers better understand their own performance abilities and help them adjust their mental approach. Developing more self-aware engineers that can quickly adjust their mental approach can lead to more innovative solutions and more skilled problem-solvers.The goal of this research is to test the effects of neuro-cognitive feedback on engineering design. The questions that this research project will answer are: (1) what is the effect of neuro-cognitive feedback on the fluency and creativity of ideas generated by engineers; (2) what is the effect of neuro-cognitive feedback on brain activation; and (3) how does brain activation correlate with the types of ideas that are generated? Engineers will be randomly selected to receive neuro-cognitive feedback about themselves, random feedback, or no neuro-cognitive feedback. Each engineer will then be asked to ideate design solutions to an engineering problem. The research team will measure patterns of activation in their brain over time, the number of solutions the engineers develop, when they develop these solutions, and the creativity of these solutions assessed by a panel of experts. This project will lead to a better understanding about why neuro-cognitive feedback sustains brain activation and will offer new insight about how self-regulation of neuro-cognitive activation affects design. Self-regulation is not a part of current models or theories in engineering design. The findings from this project will extend current understanding and offer new characterizations of the neuro-cognitive functions that occur during the engineering design process.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

工程设计是确保国家健康、繁荣和福利的关键过程。工程设计中的一个重要步骤是产生新的想法。任何丰富这一步骤的东西都可以帮助改善有益于社会的结果。然而，在工程设计过程中，新想法的产生往往会在早期达到顶峰，并随着时间的推移而下降。这可能会阻碍创新，因为工程师往往专注于旧的想法，而不是产生新的想法。为了帮助工程师保持产生新想法的能力，该项目将通过大脑激活的自我调节来测试一种新的解决方案。神经认知反馈测量大脑中血流的变化，并在计算机屏幕上直观地向设计师提供这些信息，设计师被要求通过自我调节保持大脑的高激活。神经认知反馈可以通过使有关隐藏的大脑状态的信息变得可访问来改善认知表现。神经认知反馈有可能帮助设计工程师更好地了解自己的性能，并帮助他们调整自己的心理方法。本研究的目的是测试神经认知反馈对工程设计的影响，旨在培养具有自我意识的工程师，使他们能够快速调整自己的思维方式，从而产生更具创新性的解决方案和更熟练的问题解决者。这个研究项目将回答的问题是：（1）神经认知反馈对工程师产生的想法的流畅性和创造性有什么影响;（2）神经认知反馈对大脑激活有什么影响;（3）大脑激活如何与产生的想法类型相关？工程师将被随机选择接受关于他们自己的神经认知反馈，随机反馈或没有神经认知反馈。每个工程师将被要求构思设计解决方案的工程问题。研究小组将测量他们大脑中的激活模式，工程师开发的解决方案的数量，当他们开发这些解决方案时，以及由专家小组评估的这些解决方案的创造性。这个项目将导致更好地理解为什么神经认知反馈维持大脑激活，并将提供关于神经认知激活的自我调节如何影响设计的新见解。自我调节不是当前工程设计模型或理论的一部分。该项目的发现将扩展当前的理解，并提供工程设计过程中发生的神经认知功能的新特征。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。