Facilitating Design-by-Analogy: Development of a Complete Functional Vocabulary and Functional Vector Approach to Analogical Search

Design-by-analogy is an effective approach to innovative concept generation, but can be elusive at times due to the fact that few methods and tools exist to assist designers in systematically seeking and identifying analogies from general data sources, databases, or repositories, such as patent data...

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Main Authors: Murphy, Jeremy (Author), Otto, Kevin (Author), Jensen, Dan (Author), Wood, Kristin (Author), Fu, Katherine K (Contributor), Yang, Maria C. (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (Contributor), Yang, Maria (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2017-05-22T13:32:23Z.
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