Abstract
This study will use quantitative research methods to explore the impact of the creativity and professional background of collaborative design team members on the design process development. Two experiments were carried out. First, First, subjects with different academic backgrounds were selected to participate in the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT). According to the test results, the subjects were divided into high, medium and low levels of creativity. Secondly, select 2 subjects at each level and set up a 6 members team to carry out a design task. Then we collect the semantic information in the experimental activities, and encode the data in time series, by structurally representing the data and information in the form of linkography, and analyze the link situation of each node and bring the node link data into the T-code parse algorithm, calculate the complexity, information (information content) and entropy data of every node. Finally, the team members’ performance in the design process is evaluated from multiple dimensions according to the fluctuations and changes of experimental data.
The results showed that the level of creativity was positively related to the role of team members in collaborative design activities. In addition, teams with the same background are better than groups with different backgrounds in terms of fluency in the design process, conceptual evolution, and design direction and goals. However, from the development trend of the whole design stage, the team with different backgrounds has great development potential, and its design fluency tends to improve gradually, which is better than those with the same background in design divergence, novelty of design concept and design information implication.
This research provides a visual reference for the study of complex design activities, improves the efficiency of design cognitive computing research, and lays a foundation for future design research.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Kaufman, J.C., Sternberg, R.J.: The International Handbook of Creativity, vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 323–324. Cambridge University Press (2006)
Christiaans, H.H.C.M.: Creativity as a design criterion. Creat. Res. J. 14(1), 41–54 (2002)
Sarkar, P., Chakrabarti, A.: Assessing design creativity. Des. Stud. 32(4), 348–383 (2011)
Hennessey, B.A., Amabile, T.M.: Creativity. Ann. Rev. Psychol. 61, 569–598 (2010)
Isaksen, S.G., Lauer, K.J., Ekvall, G.: Situational outlook questionnaire: a measure of the climate for creativity and change. Psychol. Rep. 85(10), 665–674 (1999)
Zhou, Y., Zhang, J.: A Preliminary Study on the index system of high-tech Enterprise creativity evaluation. Econ. Forum 11, 80–83 (2007). (in Chinese)
Goel, V.: Sketches of Thought, pp. 1–25. MIT Press, Cambridge (1995)
Coyne, R.: Wicked problems revisited. Des. Stud. 26(1), 5–17 (2005)
Alexander, C.: Notes on the Synthesis of Form. Harvard University Press, Cambridge (1964)
Gero, J.S.: Design prototypes: a knowledge representation schema for design. AI Mag. 11(4), 26–36 (1990)
Mcluhan, M., Lapham, L.H.: Understanding Media: the Extensions of Man. The Mit Press, Cambridge (1994)
Clemmensen, T., Campos, P., Orngreen, R., Pejtersen, A.M., Wong, W. (eds.): HWID 2006. IIFIP, vol. 221. Springer, Boston (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-36792-7
Heylighen, A., Nijs, G.: Designing in the absence of sight: design cognition re-articulated. Des. Stud. 35(2), 113–132 (2014)
Liu, H., Liu, X., Tang, M., Frazer, J.H.: Supporting creative configuration design in a computer-aided design environment. J. Comput. Aided Des. Comput. Graph. 15(10), 1258–1262+1335–1336 (2003) (in Chinese)
Dorta, T., Prez, E., Lesage, A.: The ideation gap: hybrid tools, design flow and practice. Des. Stud. 29(2), 121–141 (2008)
Rahimian, F.P., Ibrahim, R.: Impacts of VR 3D sketching on novice designers’ spatial cognition in collaborative conceptual architectural design. Des. Stud. 32(3), 255–291 (2011)
Ericsson, K.A., Simon, H.A.: Protocol analysis: verbal reports as data. J. Mark. Res. 23(3), 306–307 (1986)
Zamenopoulos, T.: Design out of complexity: a mathematical theory of design as an universal property of organization. University College London (2008)
Chen, C.: Cognition Design: Cognitive Science in Design. China Building Industry Press, Sichuan (2008)
Cross, N.: Expertise in design: an overview. Des. Stud. 25(5), 427–441 (2004)
Xu, J., Wang, X., Wang, Y., Ou, X.: The multidimensional modeling method of design cognition based on semantic link. J. Mech. Eng. 53(15), 32–39 (2017). (in Chinese)
Lissitz, R.W., Willhoft, J.L.: A methodological study of the Torrance Tests of Creativity. J. Educ. Meas. 22, 1–111 (1985)
Wu, J.J., Gao, Q.D., Wang, J.R., et al.: The Torrance tests of creative thinking norms-technical manual figural forms A, pp. 1–64. Yuan Liu Publishing, Taiwan (1981)
Goldschmidt, G.: Linkography: assessing design productivity. Cybern. Syst. 291–298 (1990)
Titchener, M.R.: Deterministic computation of string complexity, information and entropy. In: IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory. IEEE (2002)
Titchener, M.R., Nicolescu, R., Staiger, L., et al.: Deterministic complexity and entropy. Fund. Inform. 64(1–4), 443–461 (2004)
EL-Khouly, T.: Creative discovery in architectural design processes: an empirical study of procedural and contextual components. London University, London (2015)
Wang, Z., Zhou, M., Liu, X.: The impact of different levels of creative thinking members in group collaboration based on semantic link. In: Ahram, T., Taiar, R., Colson, S., Choplin, A. (eds.) IHIET 2019. AISC, vol. 1018, pp. 240–246. Springer, Cham (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25629-6_38
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2021 Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this paper
Cite this paper
Wang, Z., Zhou, M., Shi, Z. (2021). Research on the Influence of Team Members with Different Creativity Levels and Academic Background on the Collaborative Design Process. In: Soares, M.M., Rosenzweig, E., Marcus, A. (eds) Design, User Experience, and Usability: UX Research and Design. HCII 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12779. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78221-4_42
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78221-4_42
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-78220-7
Online ISBN: 978-3-030-78221-4
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)