A physiological study of relationship between designer’s mental effort and mental stress during conceptual design

An original design approach for stimulating the ideation of new product features

“…The quantity of offered analogies positively influences the creativity of generated ideas [42]. In addition, administering manifold and continuous stimuli can give rise to considerable workload and perceptible mental stress, which are, in turn, judged as phenomena producing enhanced design creativity [43,44]. This circumstance finds confirmation in the effectiveness of analogies in idea generation tasks that involve designers for a large amount of time, thus avoiding productivity drops observed after approximately 30 min [45].…”

Educating Aerospace Design Engineers: Perspectives from Design Creativity Theory

“…Moreover, it is not uncommon that the same workload may trigger different mental stresses on different individuals and the same workload may trigger different mental stresses for the same individual under different circumstances. This theory has been being tested in a series of physiological experiments [4,5].…”

“…The NCADE program at Concordia University is designed to address this challenge through changes to the way the curriculum is delivered and adopts Dalhousie University; June 19 -22, 2016 -2 of 6 -a "three-pillared" approach based on (i) implementing novel teaching and learning strategies aligned with a new aerospace engineering curriculum; (ii) offering students opportunities to gain practical, hands-on experience through internships and apprenticeships and; (iii) increasing experiential learning through project-based content, capstone course design and implementation and increased laboratory experiences. Nguyen and Zeng (2012) have proposed a theoretical model of design creativity which uses the EnvironmentBased Design [4,5] as a general design process model and includes the following postulates:…”

Innovative Course Scheduling and Curriculum Design

“…Nguyen and Zeng developed an experiment with seven subjects to investigate the link between mental effort and stress level [6]. Students were asked to tackle various challenging design problems.…”