Few computational tools exist to assist designers during the conceptual phase of design, and design success is often heavily weighted on personal experience and innate ability. Many well-known methods (e.g. brainstorming, intrinsic and extrinsic searches, and morphological analysis) are designed to stimulate a designer’s creativity, but ultimately still rely heavily on individual bias and experience. Under the premise that quality designs comes from experienced designers, experience in the form of design knowledge is extracted from existing products and stored for reuse in a web-based repository. This paper presents an automated concept generation tool that utilizes the repository of existing design knowledge to generate and evaluate conceptual design variants. This tool is intended to augment traditional conceptual design phase activities and produce numerous feasible concepts early in the design process.
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ASME 2005 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference
September 24–28, 2005
Long Beach, California, USA
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- Design Engineering Division and Computers and Information in Engineering Division
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0-7918-4742-X
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Cari R. Bryant,
Cari R. Bryant
University of Missouri at Rolla, Rolla, MO
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Daniel A. McAdams,
Daniel A. McAdams
University of Missouri at Rolla, Rolla, MO
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Robert B. Stone,
Robert B. Stone
University of Missouri at Rolla, Rolla, MO
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Tolga Kurtoglu,
Tolga Kurtoglu
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
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Matthew I. Campbell
Matthew I. Campbell
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
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Cari R. Bryant
University of Missouri at Rolla, Rolla, MO
Daniel A. McAdams
University of Missouri at Rolla, Rolla, MO
Robert B. Stone
University of Missouri at Rolla, Rolla, MO
Tolga Kurtoglu
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Matthew I. Campbell
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Paper No:
DETC2005-85323, pp. 267-276; 10 pages
Published Online:
June 11, 2008
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Bryant, CR, McAdams, DA, Stone, RB, Kurtoglu, T, & Campbell, MI. "A Computational Technique for Concept Generation." Proceedings of the ASME 2005 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. Volume 5a: 17th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology. Long Beach, California, USA. September 24–28, 2005. pp. 267-276. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2005-85323
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