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Creativity has always been regarded as a perceptual concept in design education. This study conducted a prototype approach to quantify students’ cognitive state scale towards understanding the concept of “footbridge” after footbridge design and construction course. Also, this research compares the final design outcome to the measured cognitive state, trying to reveal the interrelation. Two conclusions can be drawn through this research. Interdisciplinary courses do affect students’ understanding of crucial subject concepts. The other one is that, under the teamwork’s perspective, whether the cognitive distance among members is too far or too close, a fascinating design result is unlikely to emerge in this case. This research also makes a forerunner exploration for designing more diverse and innovative design outcomes in a future design course.
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Ren, L., Sun, Z., Li, Y. (2021). Understanding the Interrelation Between Prototype Cognition and Creativity in Interdisciplinary Design Course. In: Markopoulos, E., Goonetilleke, R.S., Ho, A.G., Luximon, Y. (eds) Advances in Creativity, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Communication of Design. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 276. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80094-9_38
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