Environment-Based Design Methodology for Creative Design

创新和创造力是一个国家经济和企业竞争力的核心。因此，研究创新设计的意义是不言而喻的。问题是是否有可能进行这种研究，以及如何有效地进行。我的研究领域是创新产品开发。本研究的最终目标是帮助人类设计师在时间和成本效益的方式进行创新的设计决策。为了实现这一目标，我的研究分为三个方面：1）发现设计活动知识的基础研究; 2）开发基于环境的设计（EBD）方法的应用研究; 3）我的基础和应用研究的工业应用。我的基础研究的目标是发现有关设计活动的知识，从而导致设计科学。这是我的加拿大研究主席奖的支持。这一努力导致了一个新的理论模型的创造性设计和生理为基础的实验方法来理解设计活动。理论模型是基于设计活动的数学表示和逻辑推理。生理学方法通过使用设计师的生理数据，如心率变异性（HRV），眼球运动，皮肤电反应（GSR）和脑电图（EEG）来研究设计师的行为。** 我的应用研究的目标是开发基于环境的设计（EBD）方法论，基于对设计活动的最新知识。在过去的十年里，这一直得到我以前的NSERC发现赠款的支持。EBD包括三个活动：环境分析，冲突识别，概念生成，迭代地生成和完善设计问题，设计知识和设计解决方案。本文提出了几种支持这三种活动的技术：1）基于产品工作环境的设计需求收集路线图; 2）用于提取设计文本含义的递归对象模型（ROM）; 3）通过提出正确的问题引出设计需求的有效策略; 4）将设计文本转换为计算模型的算法; 5）识别和解决设计冲突的策略;以及6）产生设计解决方案的方法。** 我的研究的工业应用包括为创新产品开发提供新颖有效的设计技术，工具和系统。工业项目通过工业研究合同和NSERC伙伴关系项目得到支持。EBD方法已应用于航空航天、医疗器械、招聘、建筑和市政等各个行业的十多个工业项目。**作为我先前研究的延续，本研究计划旨在实现以下三个目标：* 目标1：量化整个设计过程沿着的心理压力-创造力关系;* 目标2：开发有效和高效的方法来增强创意设计过程;* 目标3：验证创意设计新方法的有效性和效率。该研究计划将对设计科学的发展和设计创新产生重大影响。同时，它将提供培训HQP的绝佳机会。

Innovation and creativity lie in the core of a nation's economy and an enterprise's competitiveness. Thus the significance of the research into innovative and creative design is self-evident. The question comes to if it is possible to conduct such research and how it should be effectively conducted. The area of my research is innovative product development. The ultimate goal of this research is to assist human designers in making innovative design decisions in a time-and-cost effective manner. In achieving this goal, my research has been conducted at three streams: 1) the basic research in discovering knowledge about design activities; 2) the applied research in developing Environment-Based Design (EBD) methodology; and 3) industrial applications of my basic and applied research.**The objective of my basic research is to discover knowledge about design activities, which leads to a science of design. This has been supported by my Canada Research Chair Award. This effort has led to a new theoretical model of creative design and a physiologically based experimental approach to understanding design activities. The theoretical model is based on a mathematical representation of and logical reasoning about design activities. The Physiological approach studies designer's behavior by using designer's physiological data such as heart rate variability (HRV), eye movements, Galvanic skin response (GSR), and Electroencephalography (EEG). **The objective of my applied research is to develop Environment-Based Design (EBD) methodology, based on the up-to-date knowledge about design activities. This has been supported by my previous NSERC Discovery Grants over the last ten years. The EBD includes three activities: environment analysis, conflict identification, and concept generation, which generate and refine iteratively the design problem, design knowledge and design solutions. A few technologies have been generated to support the three activities: 1) a roadmap to guide the collection of sufficient design requirements based on the environment in which the product is to work; 2) the Recursive Object Model (ROM) for extracting meanings of a design text; 3) effective strategy for eliciting design requirements through asking the right questions; 4) algorithms to transform a design text to computational models; 5) strategies to identify and resolve conflicts in design; and 6) approaches to produce design solutions. **The industrial applications of my research include providing novel and effective design techniques, tools and systems for innovative product development. The industrial projects have been supported through industrial research contracts and NSERC partnership projects. The EBD methodology has been applied to more than ten industrial projects from various sectors such as aerospace, medical devices, recruitment, construction, and municipality.**As a continuation of my previous research, this proposed research program aims to achieve the following three objectives:*Objective 1: to quantify the mental stress - creativity relationship along the entire design process;*Objective 2: to develop effective and efficient methods to enhance creative design process; and*Objective 3: to verify the effectiveness and efficiency of new methods for creative design.**The proposed research program will significantly impact on the evolution of design science and design innovation. Meanwhile, it will provide exceptional opportunities to train HQPs.