Assessing design creativity

被引:277
作者
Sarkar, Prabir [1 ]
Chakrabarti, Amaresh [1 ]
机构
[1] Indian Inst Sci, Ctr Prod Design & Mfg, Innovat Design Study & Sustainabil Lab, Bangalore 560012, Karnataka, India
关键词
creativity; engineering design; measure creativity; MECHANICAL CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; FUNCTIONAL SYNTHESIS; REPRESENTATION;
D O I
10.1016/j.destud.2011.01.002
中图分类号
T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
Creativity is crucial for designing products and enabling innovation. Assessing creativity can help identify innovative designers and products, and support improvement of both. The literature variously defines creativity as a function of degree of novelty, usefulness, or both. Most methods for assessing creativity, however, focus only on assessing novelty of products. This research proposes a new method for assessing the creativity of products as a function of their novelty and usefulness. We develop individual methods for assessing novelty and usefulness of products. and then combine these into a method for assessing creativity of products. The proposed methods have been evaluated by benchmarking them, and other methods available from literature, against the collective, intuitive assessment of product creativity of experienced designers. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码:348 / 383
页数:36
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