This paper reports findings from the first systematic review of protocol studies focusing
specifically on conceptual design cognition, aiming to answer the following research …

'Design cognition'refers to the mental processes and representations involved in designing,
and has been a significant area of interest since the emergence of design research in the …

Developing students' creative problem solving (CPS) is widely considered to be an
important goal in engineering design education. However, the cognitive processes required …

Paper-based (PB) sketching involves the challenge of representing three-dimensional (3D)
shapes on two-dimensional (2D) surfaces. The recent generation of virtual reality (VR) …

Towards addressing ontological issues in design cognition research, this paper presents the
first generic classification of cognitive processes investigated in protocol studies on …

Highlights•Design ideation activates the pre-frontal, visual and motor cortex.•Ideation also
engages default mode regions involved in semantic/episodic memory.•Executive control and …

This paper reports a preliminary study (N= 16) exploring vividness of visual mental imagery
in product design ideation. Vividness was observed to vary across designers in the study …

Crowdsourcing offers the opportunity to gather evaluations on concept designs from
evaluators that otherwise may not have been considered, thus leveraging additional …

Ein Studien-und Arbeitsbuch für das Zeichnen von Hand als Mittel des architektonischen
Analyse-und Gestaltungsprozesses. Anhand einer systematisch gegliederten Auswahl von …

This article describes the development of the Design Evaluation and Feedback Tool (DEFT),
a custom-built web-based system that collects and reports data to support teaching …