The ageing of the population and the inverted population pyramid is bringing important
changes to society as a whole. These changes are associated with the inclusion of an older …

A number of cognitive skills relevant to conceptual design have been previously identified:
divergent thinking, visual thinking, spatial reasoning, qualitative reasoning, and problem …

Collaboration skills are increasingly necessary to succeed in today's rapidly evolving,
complex, and multi-disciplinary construction workforce. As these skills are being called upon …

Past studies have identified the following cognitive skills relevant to conceptual design:
divergent thinking, spatial reasoning, visual thinking, abstract reasoning, and problem …

The paper addresses two significant and growing trends: knowledge work and population
ageing. The population pyramid inversion brings important changes for society as a whole …

The front-end of an NPD project is a challenging area due to lack of adequate information,
limited time, multidisciplinary teams and concurrent engineering. In this kind of environment …

The advance in digital technologies is placing increasingly high demands on users'
cognitive capabilities, resulting in ubiquitous cognitive challenges (eg memory overload) in …

A battery of tests for assessing the cognitive skills needed for the conceptual design is being
developed. Divergent thinking and visual thinking tests were fully developed and validated …

A battery of tests assessing the cognitive skills needed for the conceptual design is being
developed. Tests on Divergent thinking and visual thinking are fully developed and …