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Design-by-analogy: experimental evaluation of a functional analogy search methodology for concept generation improvement

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dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
dc.contributor Fu, Katherine K
dc.contributor Yang, Maria
dc.creator Murphy, Jeremy
dc.creator Yang, Maria
dc.creator Otto, Kevin
dc.creator Jensen, Dan
dc.creator Wood, Kristin
dc.creator Fu, Katherine K
dc.date 2016-09-19T17:33:07Z
dc.date 2016-09-19T17:33:07Z
dc.date 2014-11
dc.date 2014-10
dc.date 2016-08-18T15:20:55Z
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-01T18:11:48Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-01T18:11:48Z
dc.identifier 0934-9839
dc.identifier 1435-6066
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/104350
dc.identifier Fu, Katherine et al. “Design-by-Analogy: Experimental Evaluation of a Functional Analogy Search Methodology for Concept Generation Improvement.” Research in Engineering Design 26.1 (2015): 77–95.
dc.identifier https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7776-3423
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/279113
dc.description Design-by-analogy is a growing field of study and practice, due to its power to augment and extend traditional concept generation methods by expanding the set of generated ideas using similarity relationships from solutions to analogous problems. This paper presents the results of experimentally testing a new method for extracting functional analogies from general data sources, such as patent databases, to assist designers in systematically seeking and identifying analogies. In summary, the approach produces significantly improved results on the novelty of solutions generated and no significant change in the total quantity of solutions generated. Computationally, this design-by-analogy facilitation methodology uses a novel functional vector space representation to quantify the functional similarity between represented design problems and, in this case, patent descriptions of products. The mapping of the patents into the functional analogous words enables the generation of functionally relevant novel ideas that can be customized in various ways. Overall, this approach provides functionally relevant novel sources of design-by-analogy inspiration to designers and design teams.
dc.description SUTD-MIT International Design Centre (IDC)
dc.description National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Grant Numbers CMMI-0855326, CMMI-0855510, and CMMI-08552930)
dc.format application/pdf
dc.language en
dc.publisher Springer London
dc.relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00163-014-0186-4
dc.relation Research in Engineering Design
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
dc.rights Springer-Verlag London
dc.source Springer London
dc.title Design-by-analogy: experimental evaluation of a functional analogy search methodology for concept generation improvement
dc.type Article
dc.type http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle


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