On the benefits and pitfalls of analogies for innovative design: Ideation performance based on analogical distance, commonness, and modality of examples

Journal of Mechanical Design

Volumn 133, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Chan, Joel ^a   Fu, Katherine ^b   Schunn, Christian ^a   Cagan, Jonathan ^a   Wood, Kristin ^c   Kotovsky, Kenneth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

analogy; conceptual design; design cognition; design methods; innovation

Indexed keywords

PATENTS AND INVENTIONS;

ANALOGY; CONTROL GROUPS; DESIGN COGNITION; DESIGN IDEATION; DESIGN METHOD; FAR-FIELD; INNOVATION; INNOVATIVE DESIGN; PROPERTY; SOLUTION CONCEPTS;

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN;

EID: 79961227371     PISSN: 10500472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4004396     Document Type: Article

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