A Natural Language Approach to Biomimetic Design

Shu, L. H.; Cheong, Hyunmin

doi:10.1007/978-1-4471-5248-4_3

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“…Otherwise the designer is likely to attend only to the analogies that are congruent with their current pattern of biased thought, which will obviously not promote the most effective activation of new and creative networks. This behaviour has been observed in design using biological analogies (Shu, 2010).…”

Section: Ltp and Analogymentioning

confidence: 58%

Creativity and Long-Term Potentiation: Implications for Design

Hallihan

Shu

2011

Volume 9: 23rd International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology; 16th Design for Manufacturing and the Life Cycle Conf

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An emerging research trend has seen concepts from cognitive psychology applied to enhance the creative design process through a more detailed understanding of the underlying cognitive mechanisms. However, the physiological processes by which the human element achieves creative solutions have only recently received significant attention. Understanding the mechanisms that allow the brain to change in response to experience may have implications for creative thought processes. Long-term potentiation (LTP) is one such mechanism, and has already been implicated in learning and memory development. This paper presents a theoretical-physiological explanation of creativity, implicating LTP as a modulator of neural networks. The proposed model is applied to explain existing creativity phenomena, including fixation, incubation, and obstacles in design-by-analogy. The model is then used to describe existing, and propose new methods for overcoming obstacles to creativity in design. The results of a study, which tested one application of the theory — the effect of physical activity on fixation, are also discussed.

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Section: Ltp and Analogymentioning

confidence: 58%

Creativity and Long-Term Potentiation: Implications for Design

Hallihan

Shu

2011

Volume 9: 23rd International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology; 16th Design for Manufacturing and the Life Cycle Conf

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“…From the preliminary analysis, we deduced four concrete requirements, namely (1) implementation of a structured Fig. 3 Design task "Attachment of Water Pump" (an additional text describes the challenges: attaching cables, rope, and water hose to each other so that they do not slip; the risk of injury for dismounting should be reduced in comparison to cable straps) procedure (analysis of the technical/biological system, transfer analogy, and document bio-inspired solution), (2) discussion of the technical task, (3) support of sketching, and 4transfer of several analogies based on one biological system (as proposed by Shu and Cheong 2014;Nagel et al 2015).…”

Section: Tasks Biological Information and Documentation Materialsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bio-inspired design: the impact of collaboration between engineers and biologists on analogical transfer and ideation

Farzaneh

2020

Res Eng Design

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To develop innovative technical solutions, designers seek inspiration from nature and its almost infinite pool of biological solutions. However, understanding biological solutions and transferring appropriate analogies to develop technical solutions pose a considerable challenge. A strategy to facilitate interdisciplinary understanding is collaboration between engineers and biologists. So far, the impact of this type of collaboration on analogical transfer and ideation has not been studied in an experimental setting. To close this research gap, this work examines design experiments with engineer-biologist pairs, half of whom were provided with a support for analogical transfer (BioId Support). Engineer-biologist pairs were compared to single disciplinary pairs with regards to the transfer of selected analogy categories. The impact of the transferred analogy categories on the quality of solution ideas was analysed-quality was regarded as an indicator for the solution ideas' innovative potential. The results show a positive influence of the supported collaboration between engineers and biologists on the transferred analogy categories. These analogy categories positively influence the quality of solution ideas. This work indicates benefits of collaboration between engineers and biologists for bio-inspired design. In addition, it provides a starting point for improving bio-inspired design methods.

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“…All of the above methodologies struggle in one way or another with scalably integrating large numbers of biological systems; these challenges are the following: Interactive result filtering: For the above natural-language keyword search methods, interactive result relevance filtering does not scale well for large repositories. For the bridge verb approach, it was stated: “Even with a single text used as the source, there can be an unmanageable number of matches” (Shu, 2010). For BIOscrabble, students performed an interactive analysis of 3416 research articles.…”

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SEABIRD: Scalable search for systematic biologically inspired design

Vandevenne

Verhaegen

Dewulf³

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AIEDAM

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As more and more people are increasingly turning to nature for design inspiration, tools and methodologies are developed to support the systematic bioideation process. State-of-the-art approaches struggle with expanding their knowledge bases because of interactive work required by humans per biological strategy. As an answer to this persistent challenge, a scalable search for systematic biologically inspired design (SEABIRD) system is proposed. This system leverages experience from the product aspects in design by analogy tool that identifies candidate products for between-domain design by analogy. SEABIRD is based on two conceptual representations, product and organism aspects, extracted from, respectively, a patent and a biological database, that enable leveraging the ever growing body of natural-language biological texts in the systematic bioinspired design process by eliminating interactive work by humans during corpus expansion. SEABIRD's search is illustrated and validated with three well-known biologically inspired design cases.

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A Natural Language Approach to Biomimetic Design

Cited by 29 publications

References 49 publications

Creativity and Long-Term Potentiation: Implications for Design

Creativity and Long-Term Potentiation: Implications for Design

Bio-inspired design: the impact of collaboration between engineers and biologists on analogical transfer and ideation

SEABIRD: Scalable search for systematic biologically inspired design

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