Daniel Henderson

• Master of Education
• Pennsylvania State University

In industry, engineering design teams can be asked to produce design solutions that clearly follow given specifications and constraints of a problem (i.e., Best Fit solutions), or they may be encouraged to provide higher risk design solutions that challenge those constraints, but offer other potential rewards (i.e., Dark Horse solutions). This stud...

In this research-to-practice paper, we present parts of a visual team feedback dashboard generated for 12 industry engineering design teams from various technical fields. All teams were asked to generate conceptual prototypes in response to the same design prompt. Multiple streams of data were collected and analyzed to create feedback dashboards fo...

This paper proposes a framework through which emergent disagreements during design team meetings may be classified by their tendency to reinforce or challenge the status quo. We investigate the use of the framework in measuring the effects of these disagreements on team productivity. The Interaction Dynamics Notation (IDN) [1] provides the basis fo...

Design teams are often asked to produce solutions of a certain type in response to design challenges. Depending on the circumstances, they may be tasked with generating a solution that clearly follows the given specifications and constraints of a problem (i.e., a Best Fit solution), or they may be encouraged to provide a higher risk solution that c...

Engineering projects typically revolve around producing a deliverable. That deliverable goes to a customer, who either deems it acceptable or in need of further work. The engineering analysis and components of whatever system is to be produced are the subject of much scrutiny. However, the human process composed of team interactions that lead up to...

Many tools, techniques, and other interventions have been developed to support idea generation within the design process. In previous research, we explored the separate effects of three such design interventions: teaming, problem framing, and design heuristics. In the teaming intervention, participants discussed a design prompt together but recorde...

Various interventions (i.e., methods and tools that guide design work) have been developed to support successful idea generation in a design process. Our previous research explored the impacts of three such design interventions: cognitive-style based teaming, problem framing, and design heuristics. In this work, we looked across these interventions...

This paper introduces the Idea Mapping Board, a visualization tool that supports the formation of shared mental models within design teams during concept generation and assessment. The Idea Mapping Board is intended for small teams of two to four practicing engineers or engineering students. It incorporates multiple dimensions for concept assessmen...

This paper focuses on comparing and contrasting methods for assessing the variety of a group of design ideas. Variety is an important attribute of design ideas, because it indicates the extent to which the solution space has been explored. There is a greater likelihood of successfully solving a design problem when a more diverse set of ideas is gen...