This paper reviews research on biologically inspired design, and has three main parts. The
first part surveys examples relevant to three grou**s of manufacturing research. The …

Practitioners of biomimetic design express one consistent need—access to relevant
biological information. This information is most useful when the transferable elements have …

Science and computational practices such as modeling and abstraction are critical to
understanding the complex systems that are integral to climate science. Given the …

Starting from in situ studies, we develop an information-processing theory of biologically
inspired design. We compare our theory with two popular theories of biologically inspired …

In biologically inspired design, designers typically search for natural language documents
describing biological systems relevant to their problems. Then they construct an …

Computer-Aided Biomimetics (CAB) tools aim to support the integration of relevant
biological knowledge into biomimetic problem-solving processes. Specific steps of …

While biological phenomena can serve as meaningful analogies to inspire innovative
design, previous studies found that designers often use descriptions of biological …

Biologically inspired design (BID) represents a powerful and logical bridge to
multidisciplinary education. Biologists and other scientists implicitly understand general …

This paper reports insights gained from observing groups of novice designers apply
biological analogies to solve design problems. We recorded the discourse of fourth-year …

The aim of this study was to gain further insight into how analogical reasoning and mental
simulation, two cognitive strategies, influence team dynamics in innovative product design. A …