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.

该探索性研究早期概念资助（EAGER）奖的研究目标是确定将直觉构思方法的要素与逻辑/经验方法相结合的可行性，以研究创建一个包含两种类型的构思策略的整体框架。 工程创造力在于原创性和功能质量的交叉点。大量结构化构思方法和工具不断涌现，以增强工程设计创造力。它们可以分为直觉方法和逻辑/经验方法，两者都有缺陷。 直觉和逻辑/经验方法代表了相反的极端。鉴于设计问题和设计师的多样性，单独使用单一方法或工具（无论是直观的、逻辑的还是经验的）不太可能总能带来创造性的解决方案。 在这个 EAGER 奖项中，将探讨将这两种方法的要素（直观构思与逻辑/经验）相结合的可行性，以克服每种方法的局限性并扩展构思的潜力。 将为设计和创造力研究的原型测试台奠定基础。 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观策略相结合。探索阶段要包括的体验策略有：分解、抽象、类比推理、实例展示和冲突解决。所包括的直观策略包括：悬置判断、孵化、挑衅性刺激、动作动词和组合游戏。如果成功，这个 EAGER 奖项将成为测试平台的第一步，该测试平台将提供一种统一且结构化的方式来收集创意设计数据。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，而不是将它们全部用于实证研究，研究人员将在更细的粒度水平（微型策略）上进行研究，以更深入地了解设计创造力。研究直观和逻辑/经验构思的结合，了解每个构思阶段、问题类型、设计师类型如何提出问题，是独特且具有挑战性的。 这项工作的成功将导致对该主题进行更广泛的研究。 鉴于构思对于工程设计过程的重要性，其影响可能极其重大。