Using Evolved Analogies to Overcome Creative Design Fixation

Smith, Steven M.; Linsey, Julie; Kerne, Andruid

doi:10.1007/978-0-85729-224-7_6

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“…According to Smith et al (2011) insight means a deeper understanding of the innermost workings of a problem that may include critical ideas that can solve difficult problems. When such an understanding springs into mind in a sudden realization, it is referred to as an insight experiences, an ''aha'' experience or a eureka moment.…”

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To explore the effect of sub consciousness on Sudden Moments of Inspiration (SMI) in the sketching process of industrial design

Wang

2015

Int J Technol Des Educ

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The purpose of this study is to identify the occurrence of Sudden Moments of Inspiration (SMI) in the sketching process of industrial design through experiments to explain the effect of sub consciousness on SMI. There are a pre-experiment and a formal experiment. In the formal experiment, nine undergraduates majoring in industrial design with same education experience were selected to receive a design task. In the task, nine undergraduates were divided into three groups randomly by lot. While two groups received A or B subliminal suggestions through a slide picture presentation, the other one group was not. The design processes and sketches of the three groups were recorded and analyzed, using concurrent and scientifically experimental methods such as real-time videos and protocol interviews. Comparison of the three experiments provided convincing evidences of the effect of sub consciousness on SMI in the sketching process of industrial design. InstructionThe Sudden Moments of Inspiration (SMI) is a burst inspiration or a sudden understanding when solving a problem or doing something, which widely occurs in psychology and daily life. In industrial design, SMI is the moment, which drives the design process and helps designers redirect creative solutions. Most applications and studies of SMI were wide in daily life or limited to psychology. There have been few attempts to identify how SMI occurs and its nature or role in the industrial design process. The study aims to verify the influence of subliminal suggestions on SMI in the industrial design process. The sketching expression is adopted as the object investigated. Through verifying the influence, point of

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Section: How To Identify Smimentioning

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To explore the effect of sub consciousness on Sudden Moments of Inspiration (SMI) in the sketching process of industrial design

Wang

2015

Int J Technol Des Educ

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“…The above events can be interpreted as follows: technologists present their technologies via specific concept spaces and knowledge spaces; technologists seem to develop a fixation effect on certain knowledge (see Figure 4). Smith, Linsey and Kerne (2010) broadly define fixation effect as ‘a persistent and implicit use of knowledge that is inappropriate and counterproductive’. Cognitive psychologists have extensively studied fixation effects (Jansson & Smith, 1991; Purcell & Gero, 1996; German & Barrett, 2005).…”

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“…Previous research work has highly criticized the negative impact of fixation effect in creativity. But is the fixation effect all that ‘counterproductive’ (Smith, Linsey & Kerne, 2010)? Although our case studies revealed that the presumed identity prevents covering a wide‐ranging scope of applications, the results of our case studies also pointed out that the presumed identity enables technologists to systematically stock and exploit their rich knowledge.…”

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Exploring Over: The Presumed Identity of Emerging Technology

Gillier

Piat

2011

Creat Innov Manage

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While scientists are stepping up their efforts to develop new technologies, the ability of firms to determine the value of their technologies by identifying potential applications has become a major challenge. This article focuses on a particular phase of technology development: the emergence phase. When a promising new technology first sees the light of day in a fundamental research laboratory, its target markets often seem plentiful but are ill-defined. The inability to produce prototypes or to identify potential users makes it difficult to explore potential commercial applications. On the basis of four micro-nanotechnologies case studies conducted within a multi-partner innovation project, this article aims to theoretically explain why the identification of applications from emerging technologies is not a trivial problem. That research analyses how technologists and non-experts interact during creative investigations into new applications. It shows that the technologists are victims of a form of cognitive fixation. Indeed, their beliefs and activities are guided by a stable cognitive representation of their technology: the presumed identity of technology.Based on a recent design framework, C-K Design Theory, the technological exploration process followed in our four case studies is modelled, and mechanisms to dismantle the presumed identity and to design an extended identity of technology are provided.

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“…In contrast to theories of design fixation [11], theories of embodied cognition have suggested that external representations such as visual images are helpful for people to think. McNeill [12] proposed that external objects can be appropriated as 'material carriers' to represent thought objects, in essence bringing the person's perceptual and spatial abilities to participate in her thinking proPermission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page.…”

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The effects of visual contextual structures on children's imagination in story authoring interfaces

Chu

Quek

2014

Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Interaction Design and Children

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This paper investigates how the presentation of contextual visual images may influence a child's imagination during the use of authoring systems to create digital content. This issue is particularly significant to understand what supports the child's creativity in authoring systems in creative storytelling. We address specifically children aged 8 to 10 because of the 'Fourth-Grade Slump' phenomenon whereby children experience a decrease in creative engagement at this period. We carried out a study in which children used a storytelling system that allows the user to physically enact stories in a digitally-augmented space contextualized by either a contextual background image or a blank screen. Using methods of video coding and analysis, we uncovered themes relating differences between children's enactment in the presence of a digital background and without in terms of both the process and product of storytelling. We discuss implications that the themes have for the design of story authoring systems for children.

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Using Evolved Analogies to Overcome Creative Design Fixation

Cited by 16 publications

References 20 publications

To explore the effect of sub consciousness on Sudden Moments of Inspiration (SMI) in the sketching process of industrial design

To explore the effect of sub consciousness on Sudden Moments of Inspiration (SMI) in the sketching process of industrial design

Exploring Over: The Presumed Identity of Emerging Technology

The effects of visual contextual structures on children's imagination in story authoring interfaces

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