Assessing design creativity

P Sarkar, A Chakrabarti - Design studies, 2011 - Elsevier
Creativity is crucial for designing products and enabling innovation. Assessing creativity can
help identify innovative designers and products, and support improvement of both. The …

Describing the creative design process by the integration of engineering design and cognitive psychology literature

TJ Howard, SJ Culley, E Dekoninck - Design studies, 2008 - Elsevier
In this paper a 'creative design process' is proposed, based on an integration between a
modernised consensus view of both the design process from engineering design and the …

Design creativity: Refined method for novelty assessment

S Jagtap - International Journal of Design Creativity and …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Novelty is an important characteristic of a creative idea, forming a core component of
creativity. Measurement of novelty is therefore essential to assess creativity. We found …

Quantification of “novelty” based on free-energy principle and its application for “aesthetic liking” for industrial products

H Sasaki, T Kato, H Yanagisawa - Research in Engineering Design, 2024 - Springer
Existing generative design cannot evaluate the perceived “aesthetic liking”. Hence,
quantification method of aesthetic liking, which can be modelled by the summation of …

Effects of additional stimuli on idea-finding in design teams

B Lopez-Mesa, E Mulet, R Vidal… - Journal of Engineering …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Studying the effects of idea-finding design methods experimentally can provide some light
into their degree of usability. An experiment was carried out to study the effects that different …

Investigating novelty–outcome relationships in engineering design

V Srinivasan, A Chakrabarti - AI EDAM, 2010 - cambridge.org
Design creativity involves developing novel and useful solutions to design problems. The
research in this article is an attempt to understand how novelty of a design resulting from a …

Novelty metrics in engineering design

L Fiorineschi, F Rotini - Journal of Engineering Design, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
In the field of design, novelty is widely acknowledged as a key parameter for creativity
assessments. Accordingly, scholars have proposed several definitions, metrics and …

Comparison and extension of novelty metrics for problem-solving tasks

TA Johnson, A Cheeley… - … and Information in …, 2016 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Shah's metrics for measuring ideation effectiveness have been used extensively by the
engineering design community to quantify the value of designed concepts. Shah measures …

Interpreting idea maps: Pairwise comparisons reveal what makes ideas novel

F Ahmed, SK Ramachandran… - Journal of …, 2019 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Assessing similarity between design ideas is an inherent part of many design evaluations to
measure novelty. In such evaluation tasks, humans excel at making mental connections …

An integrated model of designing

V Srinivasan, A Chakrabarti - 2010 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Current design models and frameworks describe various overlapping fragments of
designing. However, little effort exists in consolidating these fragments into an integrated …