Thomas B. Ward's scientific contributions

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... Ideally, concept generation results in many varied solutions to a design problem (Cross, 2008;Higgins et al., 1989;Osborn, 1957). There are many different approaches to generating concepts; for example, designers may be inspired by concepts from analogous contexts (Dahl & Moreau, 2002;Linsey et al., 2012), combine multiple prior concepts into new ones (Allen, 1962;Finke et al., 1992), or transform existing concepts (Leahy et al., 2019;Singh et al., 2009). Designers at all levels have been shown to struggle with generating novel ideas that are different from existing concepts (Cropley, 2016). ...
... In the field of cognitive science, most cognitive models and design models that describe cognitive processes in design (Finke et al., 1992; Maher et al., 2001; Benami and Jin, 2002) indicate the iterative nature of design cognition. Both design researchers and cognitive scientists have developed various process models to study human creative behaviour in design. ...