The metaphor machine: a database method for creativity support
Decision Support Systems
Increasing shared understanding of a design task between designers and design environments: the role of a specification component
Stimulating ideas through creativity software
Management Science
Creativity in the organization: the role of individual creative problem solving and computer support
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Effects of content representation and readers' prior knowledge on the comprehension of hypertext
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Speech and sketching for multimodal design
Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
A functional representation for aiding biomimetic and artificial inspiration of new ideas
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing - Special Issue: Design Spaces: The Explicit Representation of Spaces of Alternatives
The effects of representation on students' elaborations in collaborative inquiry
CSCL '02 Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Support for Collaborative Learning: Foundations for a CSCL Community
A content account of creative analogies in biologically inspired design
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
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Creativity of designers can be enhanced by the application of appropriate triggers. The presence of triggers helps designers to search solution spaces. The searching of a solution space increases the possibility of finding creative solutions. Both representation and content of the triggers or stimulus to which the designers are exposed are believed to play a vital role in the representation and content of the outcome of the designers during problem solving. We studied the effect of representation of triggers on ideas generated by six design engineers while trying to solve a given problem. A variety of representations (video/animation and audio, text, explanation, and others) that are potentially useful to designers for five prespecified triggers were administered to each designer, who generated ideas in response to each trigger–representation combination individually. The effect of representations of these triggers on the content and representation of the solutions generated by the design engineers was studied. The results showed significant influence of the representation of the triggers on the representations, number, and quality of the resulting ideas that were generated.