The Cognitive Science of Innovation Tools
The Cognitive Science of Innovation Tools
In order to streamline design processes, it is crucial to understand where new ideas come from. This chapter starts by outlining the ways that designers can generate novel solutions to problems. The many chapters in this volume explore a variety of different paths to innovation. To put these chapters into perspective, this chapter starts with a broad discussion of the nature of innovation. Then, it highlights the contributions of each of the chapters both for their basic research on the design process as well as for their suggestions about how to create new tools to support innovation.
Keywords: innovation, creativity, cognitive science, analogy, knowledge representation, engineering design
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