Print Email Facebook Twitter Idea representation and elaboration in design inspiration and fixation experiments Title Idea representation and elaboration in design inspiration and fixation experiments Author Vasconcelos, Luis A. (University of Cambridge) Neroni, Maria A. (University of Cambridge) Coimbra Cardoso, C.M. (TU Delft OLD Design Theory and Methodology) Crilly, Nathan (University of Cambridge) Date 2018 Abstract Design fixation experiments often report that participants exposed to an example solution generate fewer ideas than those who were not. This reduced ‘idea fluency’ is generally explained as participants’ creativity being constrained by the example they have seen. However, the inclusion of an example also introduces other factors that might affect idea fluency in the experiments. We here offer an additional explanation for these results: participants not exposed to the example tend to generate ideas with little elaboration, while the level of detail in the example encourages a similar level of elaboration among stimulated participants. Because idea elaboration is time consuming, non-stimulated participants record more ideas overall. We investigated this hypothesis by reanalyzing data from three different studies; in two of them we found that non-stimulated participants generated more ideas and more ideas containing only text, whilst stimulated participants generated ideas that were more elaborated. Based on the creativity literature, we provide several explanations for the differences in results found across studies. Our findings and explanations have implications for the interpretation of creativity experiments reported to date and for the design of future studies Subject Inspirationfixationidea generationvisual representationcreativity evaluation To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:30cd175a-d20b-472d-ae25-7f3cdbea3f2c DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/21650349.2017.1362360 ISSN 2165-0349 Source International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation, 6 (1-2), 93-113 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2018 Luis A. Vasconcelos, Maria A. Neroni, C.M. Coimbra Cardoso, Nathan Crilly Files PDF 21650349.2017.1362360.pdf 2.97 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:30cd175a-d20b-472d-ae25-7f3cdbea3f2c/datastream/OBJ/view