... analogical thinking to enhance the Novelty and Usefulness of design solutions. The control group received a brief that contained stimuli in the form of typical examples without instructions to use analogies. A second group was provided with a brief including stimuli elicited by text representations...

... and novelty of requirements generated. The effects of the lecture were evaluated by comparing results from the pre- and post-lecture activity with the two problems. Variety was assessed by sorting the individual requirements generated by each participant into eighteen categories. Novelty was evaluated...

... of collaborative stimulation on the “quality” of design entities, or the ideas produced, remains unknown. This paper identifies the novelty of design entities in the collaborative setting, and compares those which resulted directly from collaborative stimulation to those which were created by individuals working...