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Schunn
Lab: Jooyoung Jang, Susannah Paletz, Joel Chan, Kevin Topolski
Collaborators:
Jon Cagan (CMU Engr), Kris Wood (UT Austin, Engr), Ken Kotovsky (CMU Psy),
Katherine Fu (CMU Engr), Paul Egan (CMU Engr), Mike Lovell (UW Engr),
Howard Kuhn (Pitt Engr), Yu Wang (Pitt Engr), Andrea Goncher (VaTech),
Tsunhin Wong (Max Planck-Berlin) |
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Current
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Design
Tools to Cognitive Processes to Innovation.
We have collected data (~30 hrs/team) from semester-long
product realization teams (approximately 60 teams across
three yrs of data collection) to understand how the artifacts
and tools in the design environment shape cognitive processes
like analogy and mental simulation to
in turn influence the quality of final solutions.
Integrating Social
and Cognitive Processes in Discovery and Innovation.
Innovation and discovery involve individuals working successfully
together in teams. Prior research has
typically studied social teamwork variables in isolation or individual
cognition variables in isolation. The current project examines
a very large quantity of video data collected from a recent highly
successful case of science and engineering, the Mars Exploration
Rover. From
this video record, the project traces the path from the structure
of different subgroups (such as having formal roles and diversity
of knowledge in the subgroups) to the occurrence of different
social processes (such as task conflict, breadth of participation,
communication norms, and shared mental models) to the occurrence
of different cognitive processes (such as analogy, information
search, and evaluation) and finally to outcomes (such as new
methods for rover control and new hypotheses regarding the nature
of Mars).
Advanced
Analogical Search with Integrated Function and Form: The
Verrocchio
Project: Much research has shown that a
major component of creative ideation is based on the incorporation
of analogies in concept generation. The Verrocchio Project
seeks to improve our capabilities in concept generation
through collaboration between the disciplines of Cognitve
Psychology, Computer Science, and Engineering Design to
provide new tools for design by analogy. Our approach is
based on a representation that associates functional and
geometric information. We combine a linguistic search for
functional similarity with a multi-level search for geometric
similarity to automatically identify and present analogies
to the designer. The initial application for the Verrocchio
Project is the design of sustainable energy-using devices
for developing world applications, a domain that is ripe
for innovation. Our initial search space is the USPTO utility
patent repository.
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- Paletz, S. B. F., & Schunn, C. D. (in press). A social-cognitive
framework of multidisciplinary team innovation. Topics in Cognitive Science. pdf
- Christensen, B. T., & Schunn, C. D. (2009). The role and impact
of mental simulation in design. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 23, 327-344. pdf
- Christensen, B. T., & Schunn, C. D. (2009). Setting a limit to
randomness [or: ‘Putting blinkers on a blind man’]: Providing cognitive
support for creative processes with environmental cues. In
K. Wood & A. Markman (Eds.), Tools for Innovation. pdf
- Titus, N., Schunn, C. D., Walhall, C., Chiu, G., & Ramani, K.
(2008). What design processes predict better design outcomes? The case
of robotics design teams. Proceedings of the Tools and Methods of Competitive
Engineering Conference, Izmir, Turkey, (April, 2009). pdf
- Schunn, C. D., Lovell, M. R., Wang, Y., and Yang, A. (2008). Measuring
Innovative Apples & Oranges: Towards More Robust and Efficient
Measures of Product Innovation. Paper presented at the Studying Design
Creativity conference. Aix-en-Provence, France, (March, 2008).
- Christensen, B. T., & Schunn, C. D. (2007). The relationship
of analogical distance to analogical function and pre-inventive structure:
The case of engineering design. Memory & Cognition, 35(1), 29-38.
pdf
- Mehalik, M. M., & Schunn, C. D. (2006). What constitutes good design?
A review of empirical studies of the design process. International
Journal of Engineering Education, 22(3), 519-532. pdf
- Christensen, B. T., & Schunn, C. D. (2005). Spontaneous access and
analogical incubation effects. Creativity Research Journal, 17(2), 207-220.
pdf
- Lovett, M. C., & Schunn, C. D. (1999). Task representations, strategy
variability and base-rate neglect. Journal of Experimental Psychology:
General, 128, 107-130. pdf
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