All design is influenced by previous exposure to ideas in different formats and in different
levels of abstraction. This paper introduces refined methods to represent and analyze the …

This paper presents the result of a comprehensive literature review on design protocol
studies. A total of 134 papers, including journal and conferences papers and PhD …

In this dynamic review and synthesis of empirical research and theoretical discussion of
design as cognitive activity, Willemien Visser reconciles and integrates the classical view of …

This paper introduces a new perspective/direction on assessing and encouraging creativity
in concept design for application in engineering design education and industry. This …

This study consists of four experimental idea generation meetings, which explore whether
functions of sketching in design activity are also valid for idea generation meetings. The …

Highlights•We combine design process and cognitive views to understand ideation.•We
identify idea creation and idea judgement as two crucial dimensions to define ideas.•We …

This paper presents a design experiment that was conducted to study the effects of idea
exposure in design idea generation. Earlier studies have shown that idea exposure can …

In today's highly competitive and uncertain market environment with short product life cycles,
product development must not only satisfy the quality and speed of production, but it must …

This book addresses the development of quantitative tools intended to improve the
understanding of design activities. The motivation of the research was to understand human …

This article presents a cognitively oriented viewpoint on design. It focuses on cognitive,
dynamic aspects of real design, that is, the actual cognitive activity implemented by …