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, Otto, Kevin, Jensen, Dan, Wood, Kristin, Fu, Katherine K, Yang, Maria C.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Society of Mechanical Engineers 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/109240
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7776-3423