The importance of retrieval in creative design analogies

The importance of retrieval in creative design analogies

Analogy is an important reasoning process in creative design. It enables the generation of new design artifacts using ideas from domains semantically distant. The retrieval phase is crucial to the generation of creative analogies, without a good set of candidate sources, the success of subsequent phases can be compromised. Two main types of retrieval have been identified: semantic-based retriev...

A content account of creative analogies in biologically inspired design

The growing movement of biologically inspired design is driven in part by the need for sustainable development and in part by the recognition that nature could be a source of innovation. Biologically inspired design by definition entails cross-domain analogies from biological systems to problems in engineering and other design domains. However, the practice of biologically inspired design at pr...

Nature of creative analogies in biologically inspired innovative design

Cognitive Activity Analysis of the Brain in Creative Design Thinking

The present study was aimed at analyzing cognitive activity of the brain during creative design thinking. This study was a causal-comparative study. The statistical population of the study was all students of Tabriz University in the period of 2016-17. At first, interested students were invited to participate in the research, and 30 of them were randomly selected and selected from delta, theta,...

Visual Re-Representation in Creative Analogies

Visual representations seem to play a significant role in many creative analogies. In this paper, we describe a specific role of visual representations: two situations that appear dissimilar non-visually may appear similar when re-represented visually. We present a computational theory of multi-modal analogy in which visual re-representation enables analogical transfer in cases where there are ...