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 …

Analogy was studied in real-world engineering design, using the in vivo method.
Analogizing was found to occur frequently, entailing a roughly equal amount of within-and …

This paper contrasts two different paradigms of design thinking: the one of the dynamic
thermal simulation tool users with the one of the building designer. It shows that, in theory …

Research in cognitive psychology and in design thinking has shown that the generation of
inner representations in imagery and external representations via sketching are instrumental …

Entrepreneurship education is a key beneficiary of design thinking's recent momentum. Both
designers and entrepreneurs create opportunities for innovation in products, services …

Highlights•We explored ideation applying Design-by-Analogy (DbA) in transactional
problems.•First domain-knowledge expert study (n= 73) for a DbA semantic-based ideation …

This chapter aims to further our understanding of the nature and function of analogising and
mental simulation in design through an analysis of the DTRS7 engineering data. Analogies …

Design and craft practitioners' thinking has been researched in design cognition studies;
however, lately research on the embodied mind has also begun to influence the field of …

Analogy is a core cognition process used to produce inferences as well as new ideas using
previous knowledge and experience. Ontology is a formal representation of a set of domain …

This study investigated the use of visual analogy in architectural design. Its purpose was to
provide some understanding of the way experts and novices apply visual analogical thinking …