NSF Innovation and Discovery Workshop:

The Scientific Basis of Individual and Team Innovation and Discovery

May 17th + 18th, 2006
NSF, Ballston, VA

Final Report: click here.

 

Organizers:

 

Mission: To examine the contexts, methods, and implications of research on the cognitive and social processes of innovation and discovery

 

Wednesday, May 17th

Start Time

Speaker

Area

Talk Title

 

Workshop Overview

8:30 AM

     
 

Cluster 1 Presentations

9:00 AM

Steve Smith
Texas A&M

Cognitive

Alignment of Research on Creative Cognition Across Levels of Complexity and Ecological Validity

 

9:20 AM

Jami Shah
ASU

Engineering

Can you study Right Brain Processes with Left Can you study Right Brain Processes with Left Brain Tools? Brain Tools?

 

9:40 AM

Vincent Brown
Hofstra

Social

Some Speculations on Facilitating Creative Idea Generation in Groups and Individuals: Cognitive Underpinnings

 

10:00 AM

Dan Frey
MIT

Engineering

The Role of Experimentation in Individual and Team Innovation and Discovery: Possible Forms of its Scientific Foundations

 

Breakout on Cluster 1

10:40 AM

   
 

Group Discussion on Cluster 1

11:10 AM

   
 

Cluster 2 Presentations

1:00 PM

Paul Paulus
UT-Arlington

Social

Enhancing Group Creativity—The Effects of Training, Diversity, and Attitudes Toward Diversity

 

1:20 PM

Art Markman
UT-Austin

Cognitive

Tools for Moving Beyond Incremental Innovation

 

1:40 PM

Larry Leifer
Stanford

Engineering

Surprise and Delight:  design-thinking in practice and theory

 

Breakout on Cluster 2

2:00 PM

   
 

Group Discussion on Cluster 2

2:30 PM

   
 

Cluster 3 Presentations

3:20 PM

Jeremy Gray
Yale

Cognitive

Cognitive Neuroscience of Discovery and Innovation: An Example Research Strategy into Cross-Domain Analogical Reasoning

 

3:40 PM

Tory Higgins
Columbia

Social

Creativity Differences in Promotion Versus Prevention Regulatory States

 

4:00 PM

Kris Wood
UT-Austin

Engineering

Empirical Studies of Collaborative and Analogical Product Design: Implications on Innovation and Discovery

 

4:20 PM

John Levine
Pitt

Social

Innovation in Task Groups: Newcomers as Change Agents

 

Breakout on Cluster 3

4:40 PM

   
 

Group Discussion on Cluster 3

5:10 PM

   

Thursday, May 18th

Start Time

Speaker

Area

Talk Title

 

Cluster 4 Presentations

8:00 AM

Gary Bradshaw
Mississippi State

Cognitive

Edison's Bright Idea: Mental Models, Heuristics, Strategies of Invention, and the Electric Light

 

8:20 AM

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Claremont

Social

On the Phenomenology of Discovery

 

8:40 AM

Ken Kotovsky
CMU

Cognitive

Sources of Insights in Engineering Design

 

9:00 AM

Jon Cagan
CMU

Engineering

Cognitively-Inspired Computational Design Methods

 

Breakout on Cluster 4

9:20 AM

   
 

Group Discussion on Cluster 4

9:50 AM

   
 

Cluster 5 Presentations

10:40 AM

Panos Papalambros
U. of Michigan

Engineering

Observations on creativity and innovation in student design project teams

 

11:00 AM

Ashok Goel
Georgia Tech

Cognitive

Exploring Design Innovation: The AI Method and Some Results

 

11:20 AM

Keith Sawyer
WUSTL

Social

Inside the Black Box of Collaborative Creativity

 

Breakout on Cluster 5

1:00 PM

   
 

Group Discussion on Cluster 5

1:30 PM

   
 

Cluster 6 Presentations

2:00 PM

Christian Schunn
Pitt

Cognitive

The Role of Artifacts on Analogy in Innovative Design

 

2:20 PM

Linda Argote
CMU

Social

Transferring Innovations across Groups in Organizations:  Evidence from the Field and the Laboratory

 

2:40 PM

Maria Yang
USC

Engineering

A Study of Prototypes, Design Activity, and Design Outcome: A Design Data Analysis Approach

 

3:00 PM

Nancy Nersessian
Georgia Tech

Cognitive

Interdisciplinarity on the Benchtop: Model-Based Reasoning in Bio-Science and Engineering Research Laboratories

 

Breakout on Cluster 6

3:30 PM

   
 

Group Discussion on Cluster 6

4:00 PM

   
 

Wrap-up Discussion

4:30 PM