The Development of a Creativity-Enhancing Model for Innovative Design Concepts

Creativity is highly treasured and pursued in most domains of society; persistent needs for aiming to enhance creative behaviours emerge and exist. To meet this demand, a creativity enhancing (CE) model has been proposed in this paper. As human beings are regarded to possess the capacity of being creative, a human creative behaviour model has been referred to inspire the development of the CE model. Then, the CE model has been constructed by the integration of techniques: extenics, case based reasoning (cbr), generalisation, analogy, and attribute dependency template. Among these techniques, CBR performs for information seeking; Extenics, generalisation, analogy, and attribute dependency template are for information processing. The effectiveness of the CE model has been illustrated by two case studies showing that a number of new design concepts can be derived. Finally, a conclusion on this research is provided.