Highlights•Comparison between divergent thinking and ideation in the design
process.•Perplexity is used to quantify individual patterns in divergent thinking.•Ideation is …

This research Work In Progress systematically reviews the current literature on sketching
assessment in engineering education. Sketching is an integral part of the engineering …

Highlights•Dyadic design teams benefit from disciplinary diversity in creative idea
generation.•Dyadic designer teams generate more design ideas than do other …

Introduction Neurotechnology approaches, such as electroencephalography (EEG), can aid
understanding of the cognitive processes behind creativity. Methods To identify and …

The reason why people have different creativity quality levels may depend on their different
performances relating to other cognitive factors that are important for creativity. This study …

The aim of this paper is to examine students' performance in a computation-based course by
evaluating the effects of key factors including sketching, visualization resources provided to …

New computational design tools have evolved rapidly and been increasingly applied in the
field of design in recent years, complimenting and even replacing the traditional design …

The early stages of video editing present many cognitively demanding tasks that require
editors to remember and structure large amounts of video. In our formative work we learned …

Although the reasons for and against the early use of digital tools in design have been
intensively researched and studied for years, there has been a scarcity of substantial …

This paper presents a behavior-based protocol study conducted with mechanical
engineering students, where the participants developed function–structure models for a …