Nature of creative analogies in biologically inspired innovative design

C and C 2009 - Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 255-264

  Vattam, Swaroop S ^a   Helms, Michael E ^a   Goel, Ashok K ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analogy; Bioinspiration; Biomimetics; Cognition; Creativity; Design; Innovation

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETICS; INNOVATION;

ANALOGY; BIO-INSPIRATION; BIOLOGICAL-INSPIRED DESIGNS; BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED; BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED DESIGN; COGNITION; CREATIVITY; INNOVATIVE DESIGN;

DESIGN;

EID: 84897601988     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1640233.1640273     Document Type: Conference Paper

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