Investigating effects of oppositely related semantic stimuli on design concept creativity

Journal of Engineering Design

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 271-296

  Chiu, I ^a   Shu, L H ^b  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

concept generation; creativity; design stimuli; engineering design; language

Indexed keywords

CONCEPT GENERATION; CREATIVITY; DESIGN CONCEPT; DESIGN PROBLEMS; ENGINEERING DESIGN; INVESTIGATING EFFECTS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ANALYSIS; LINGUISTIC THEORY; RELATED WORD; SYSTEMATIC METHOD; VERBAL PROTOCOLS; WORK SUPPORT;

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84858205511     PISSN: 09544828     EISSN: 14661837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09544828.2011.603298     Document Type: Article

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