The Impact of Type of Examples on Originality: Explaining Fixation and Stimulation Effects

Agogué, Marine; Kazakçı, Akın; Hatchuel, Armand; Masson, Pascal Le; Weil, Benoît; Poirel, Nicolas; Cassotti, Mathieu

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“…Second, for both the engineers and industrial designers, the introduction of an uncreative example reinforced the fixation effect and constrained both their fluency and their expansivity. Thus, our results are consistent with those of Agogué et al (2013), which showed that an uncreative example that was chosen within the fixation effect constrains the creative capabilities of individuals. Of particular interest in the present study is that the industrial designers who were exposed to a restrictive example behaved similarly to the engineers in the control group.…”

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“…Inter-rater agreement was excellent (percent agreement = 97%). Based on a previous study (Agogué et al, 2013;, three meta-categories (i.e., dampening the shock, protecting the egg, and slowing the fall) met the qualifications for the fixation effect, whereas the seven others did not (e.g., using a living device and modifying the natural properties of the egg). We then counted the number of solutions that were outside the fixation effect for each participant.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Resisting classical solutions: The creative mind of industrial designers and engineers.

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Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

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Industrial designers and engineers are two types of individuals who are typically contrasted with regard to their creative capabilities. Regarding idea generation processes, studies have shown that individuals use existing elements to generate new ideas, which constrains theircreative thinking and leads them to only focus on a narrow scope of solutions. This article explores how industrial designers and engineers behave when generating creative ideas and resisting fixation (i.e., the propensity to focus on a limited set of ideas). We used a creative task in which participants were asked to design a solution that would prevent a hen's egg from breaking after being dropped from a height of 10 m. Our results show that engineers and industrial designers differ in their creative behaviors when they are asked to generate ideas in a creative task, without any constraints. Industrial designers provide more answers and are less fixated than engineers. However, for both engineers and industrial designers, the introduction of an uncreative example reinforced the fixation effect and constrained the

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Resisting classical solutions: The creative mind of industrial designers and engineers.

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Masson²,

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et al. 2015

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

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“…Based on the research results on design theory, they were able to invent new organizations, new methods and new processes (see also (Agogué and Kazakçi 2014;Hatchuel et al 2015;Defour et al 2010;Meijer et al 2015;Reich and Subrahmanian 2015). This led them to get impressive industrial results -one illustration is given by the fact that some of them got also prizes like the RedDot award for their innovative products (Figure 4).…”

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Design theory: a foundation of a new paradigm for design science and engineering

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In recent years, the works on Design Theory (and particularly the works of the Design Theory SIG of the Design Society) have contributed to reconstruct the science of design, comparable in its structure, foundations and impact to Decision Theory, Optimization or Game Theory in their time. These works have reconstructed historical roots and the evolution of design theory, conceptualized the field at a high level of generality and uncovered theoretical foundations, in particular the logic of generativity, the "designoriented" structures of knowledge, and the logic of design spaces. These results give the academic field of engineering design an ecology of scientific objects and models, which allows for expanding the scope of engineering education and design courses. They have contributed to a paradigm shift in the organization of R&D departments, supporting the development of new methods and processes in innovation departments, and to establishing new models for development projects. Emerging from the field of engineering design, design theory development has now a growing impact in many disciplines and academic communities. The research community may play significant role in addressing contemporary challenges if it brings the insights and applicability of Design Theory to open new ways of thinking in the developing and developed world.

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“…For example, research has considered how the semantic relevance [8,9,13], novelty [9,1], and diversity [15,51,5,45] of examples influence ideation. However, one important question has received less attention: when should innovators look at examples?…”

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Providing Timely Examples Improves the Quantity and Quality of Generated Ideas

Siangliulue

Chan

Gajos

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition

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Emerging online ideation platforms with thousands of example ideas provide an important resource for creative production. But how can ideators best use these examples to create new innovations? Recent work has suggested that not just the choice of examples, but also the timing of their delivery can impact creative outcomes. Building on existing cognitive theories of creative insight, we hypothesize that people are likely to benefit from examples when they run out of ideas. We explore two example delivery mechanisms that test this hypothesis: 1) a system that proactively provides examples when a user appears to have run out of ideas, and 2) a system that provides examples when a user explicitly requests them. Our online experiment (N=97) compared these two mechanisms against two baselines: providing no examples and automatically showing examples at a regular interval. Participants who requested examples themselves generated ideas that were rated the most novel by external evaluators. Participants who received ideas automatically when they appeared to be stuck produced the most ideas. Importantly, participants who received examples at a regular interval generated fewer ideas than participants who received no examples, suggesting that mere access to examples is not sufficient for creative inspiration. These results emphasize the importance of the timing of example delivery. Insights from this study can inform the design of collective ideation support systems that help people generate many high quality ideas.

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The Impact of Type of Examples on Originality: Explaining Fixation and Stimulation Effects

Cited by 135 publications

References 31 publications

Resisting classical solutions: The creative mind of industrial designers and engineers.

Resisting classical solutions: The creative mind of industrial designers and engineers.

Design theory: a foundation of a new paradigm for design science and engineering

Providing Timely Examples Improves the Quantity and Quality of Generated Ideas

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