Aircraft Design Innovation: Creating an Environment for Creativity

Aircraft design innovation: creating an environment for creativity

Innovation in aeronautics has been investigated by exploring the factors that promote innovation (e.g. adversity, observation and curiosity, contests, grand challenges, collaboration, analysis tools, and knowledge bases) and the factors that inhibit innovation (e.g. limitations of simulation tools, absence of a creative environment, fear of failure, unwarranted criticism, and poor definition of...

Creating Creativity for Everyone: User Interfaces for Supporting Innovation

A challenge for human-computer interaction researchers and user interface designers is to construct information technologies that support creativity. This ambitious goal can be attained by building on an adequate understanding of creative processes. This paper offers the four-phase genex framework for generating excellence: Collect: learn from previous works stored in digital libraries Relate: ...

HCI Education: Innovation, Creativity and Design Thinking

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) education needs re-thinking. In this paper, we explore how and what creativity and design thinking could contribute with, if included as a part of the HCI curriculum. The findings from courses where design thinking was included, indicate that design thinking contributed to increased focus on innovation and creativity, as well as prevented too early fixation on a...

CREATING AN ONTOLOGY FOR AIRCRAFT DESIGN An Experience Report About Development Process and the Resulting Ontology

Experts from various aircraft sub-domains have to collaborate in order to design an aircraft system. Each sub-domain thereby focuses on a particular aspect of the system and uses special software tools to model those aspects and run various calculations. As those models partially overlap, inconsistencies can occur that might lead to delays in the design process or malfunctions of the aircraft s...

Creating an Environment for Excellence