Overcoming blocks in conceptual design: The effects of open goals and analogical similarity on idea generation

2008 Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, DETC 2008

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages 3-9

  Tseng, Ian ^a   Moss, Jarrod ^b   Cagan, Jonathan ^a   Kotovsky, Kenneth ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN IDEATION; IDEA GENERATION; IMPACT DESIGN;

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; EXPERIMENTS; WELL STIMULATION;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 69949164562     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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