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Inspirational stimuli to support creative ideation for the design of artificial intelligence-powered products

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posted on 2025-01-29, 16:46 authored by Xiaoneng Jin, Hua Dong, Mark EvansMark Evans, Anqi Yao

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize product design, and designers need to know how to best leverage its capabilities. Based on the concept–knowledge (C-K) theory, a set of inspirational stimuli (IS) for the design of AI-powered products (ISfAI) has been developed to contribute to the conceptual design stage. We extracted 40 ISs from 1755 granted AI patents using a five-step process and validated their feasibility through a controlled experiment using three design aids: brainstorming, ISfAI sheet, and ISfAI cards. Results suggest that the ISfAI cards can serve as a creative tool to enabling practitioners to generate a greater range of high-quality AI-powered ideas, particularly in terms of novelty, creativity, elaboration, and flexibility. This study has practical implications for developing AI-powered products and services.

Funding

The Humanities and Social Sciences Research Youth Fund Project of the Ministry of Education of China (grant no. 23YJCZH094)

The General Scientific Research Project of the Department of Education of Zhejiang Province (grant no. Y202351558)

History

School

  • Design and Creative Arts

Published in

Journal of Mechanical Design

Volume

146

Issue

12

Pages

1 - 20

Publisher

ASME International

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Rights holder

© ASME

Acceptance date

2024-06-03

Publication date

2024-07-19

Copyright date

2024

Notes

Paper no. MD-24-1060

ISSN

1050-0472

eISSN

1528-9001

Language

  • en

Depositor

Prof Mark Evans. Deposit date: 28 January 2025

Article number

121402