EAGER: Holistic Ideation for Creative Design

探索性研究早期概念基金（EAGER）的研究目标是确定将直觉思维方法与逻辑/经验方法相结合的可行性，以研究创建一个包含这两种思维策略的整体框架。工程创造力是独创性和功能质量的交汇点。为了提高工程设计创造力，出现了大量结构化的构思方法和工具。它们可以分为直观方法和逻辑/经验方法，两者都有不足之处。直觉和逻辑/经验方法代表两个极端。考虑到设计问题和设计师的多样性，无论是直觉的、逻辑的还是经验的，单一方法或工具的独家使用不太可能总是导致创造性的解决方案。本奖项将探讨将直觉思维与逻辑/经验思维相结合的可行性，以克服各自的局限性，拓展思维的潜力。将为设计和创意研究的原型试验台奠定基础。将进行初步调查，以确定从中提取的选定部分是否可以与直觉策略相结合。探索阶段的经验策略包括：分解、抽象、类比推理、实例暴露和冲突解决。直觉策略包括：暂停判断，孵化，挑衅性刺激，动作动词和组合游戏。如果成功，这个EAGER奖项将是迈向测试平台的第一步，它将提供一种统一的、结构化的方式来收集创造性设计的数据。这将有助于通过实证研究更好地理解创意过程和策略。通过剖析构思方法，而不是将其全部用于实证研究，研究人员将在更细的粒度级别（迷你策略）上进行研究，以更深入地了解设计创造力。研究直觉思维和逻辑/经验思维的结合，在每个思维阶段如何提出问题，问题类型，设计师类型是独特而具有挑战性的。这一努力的成功将导致对这一主题进行更广泛的研究。考虑到构思在工程设计过程中的重要性，这种影响可能是极其显著的。

The research objective of this Early-Concept Grant for Exploratory Research(EAGER)award is to determine the feasibility of combining elements of intuitive ideation methods with logical/experiential methods to investigate the creation of a holistic framework that will contain ideation strategies from both types. Engineering creativity lies at the intersection of originality and functional quality. A large number of structured ideation methods and tools have surfaced for enhancing engineering design creativity. They can be classified into intuitive and logical/experiential approaches, both of which have deficiencies. Intuitive and logical/experiential approaches represent opposite extremes. Given the diversity of design problems and designers, it is unlikely that the exclusive use of a single method or tool, whether intuitive, logical or experiential, would always lead to creative solutions. In this EAGER award, the feasibility of combining elements of these two approaches - intuitive ideation with logical/experiential - in order to overcome limitations of each and to expand the potentials for ideation will be explored. The foundations will be laid for a prototype Testbed for design and for creativity research. Preliminary investigations will be performed to determine if selected parts extracted from them can be combined with intuitive strategies. The experiential strategies to be included during the exploratory stage are: decomposition, abstraction, analogical reasoning, example exposure and conflict resolution. The intuitive strategies included will be: suspended judgment, incubation, provocative stimuli, action verbs and combinatorial play. If successful, this EAGER award will be a preliminary step towards Testbeds that will provide a uniform and structured way of collecting data on creative design. This will lead to a better understanding of creative processes and strategies through empirical studies. By dissecting ideation methods, rather than using them in their entirety for empirical studies, the investigators will research at a finer granularity level (mini-strategies) for greater insights into design creativity. Studying the combination of intuitive and logical/experiential ideation in terms of how problems are posed in each and the ideation stage, problem type, designer type is unique and challenging. Success of this effort will lead to more extensive research on this topic. The impact could be extremely significant, given the importance of ideation to the engineering design process.