EAGER: Holistic Ideation for Creative Design

EAGER：创意设计的整体构思

• 批准号: 1045644
• 负责人: Jami Shah
• 金额: $ 7.47万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1045644&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Holistic; Ideation; Creative; Design

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.

这项早期概念研究授予的研究目标是为了确定将直觉观念方法与逻辑/体验方法相结合的可行性，以调查将包含两种类型的构想策略的整体框架的创建。 工程创造力在于原创性和功能质量的交汇处。许多结构化的构思方法和工具已经浮出水面，以增强工程设计的创造力。它们可以分为直观和逻辑/体验式方法，两者都有缺陷。 直观和逻辑/体验方法代表相反的极端。鉴于设计问题和设计师的多样性，无论直观，合乎逻辑还是经验，独家使用单一方法或工具都不可能始终导致创造性的解决方案。 在这个渴望的奖励中，将探索这两种方法的元素 - 直观的构想与逻辑/体验式 - 以克服每个方法的局限性并扩大构想潜力的可行性。 这些基础将用于设计和创造力研究的原型测试床。 将进行初步调查，以确定是否可以将其提取的选定部分与直观的策略结合在一起。在探索阶段要包括的经验策略是：分解，抽象，类似推理，示例暴露和冲突解决方案。包括的直观策略将是：暂停判断，孵化，挑衅性刺激，动作动词和组合游戏。如果成功的话，这一渴望的奖项将是迈向测试床的初步步骤，该步骤将为收集创意设计的数据提供统一和结构化的方式。这将通过实证研究更好地了解创作过程和策略。通过解剖构思方法，而不是将它们全部用于实证研究，而是将研究人员以更精细的粒度层面（迷你策略）进行研究，以对设计创造力进行更多的了解。研究直观和逻辑/体验式的构想的组合，从每个和构想阶段，问题类型，设计师类型中的问题构成方面都是独特而挑战。 这项工作的成功将导致对此主题进行更广泛的研究。 鉴于构想对工程设计过程的重要性，影响可能非常重要。