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Idea Inspire 3.0—A Tool for Analogical Design

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Research into Design for Communities, Volume 2 (ICoRD 2017)

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There is a continuous demand for novel and innovative products in the market. In order to develop novel ideas, natural systems are considered to be superior source of inspiration. In order to assist designers in ideation, an analogical design tool called Idea Inspire 3.0 is developed; it is a revised version of Idea-Inspire developed in 2005. The latest version is web-based, and supports retrieval, visualizationand addition of systems. It uses a novel, dynamic representation with amulti-system, multi-instance SAPPhIRE model as basis, and a multi-modal explanation for enhanced understanding that shouldlead to better ideation. In this paper, these latest features of Idea-Inspire along with their potential benefits are discussed.

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  1. Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India

    Amaresh Chakrabarti, L. Siddharth & Sonal Keshwani

  2. College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York, Syracuse, USA

    Madhuri Dinakar

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

    Megha Panda

  4. Department of Biotechnology, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA

    Neha Palegar

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Chakrabarti, A., Siddharth, L., Dinakar, M., Panda, M., Palegar, N., Keshwani, S. (2017). Idea Inspire 3.0—A Tool for Analogical Design. In: Chakrabarti, A., Chakrabarti, D. (eds) Research into Design for Communities, Volume 2. ICoRD 2017. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 66. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3521-0_41

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