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Joel Chan

JC

45

Publications

2.3K

Citations

26

H-Index

1973

Active since

Affiliations

Carnegie Mellon University(Current)

University of Maryland, College Park

University of Pittsburgh

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

University of California San Diego

Joel Chan is an author at Carnegie Mellon University specializing in design, engineering, and social sciences.

Top concepts

DesignEngineeringSocial SciencesCognitive ScienceDesign ThinkingCreativityEducationHuman-computer InteractionNatural Language ProcessingCognition

Publications per year

1973–2023

45

Publications

45

On the Benefits and Pitfalls of Analogies for Innovative Design: Ideation Performance Based on Analogical Distance, Commonness, and Modality of Examples

Joel Chan, Katherine Fu, Christian D. Schunn et al. · Journal of Mechanical Design · 2011 · 284 citations

Conceptual Design, Education, Analogical Distance +23

The Meaning of “Near” and “Far”: The Impact of Structuring Design Databases and the Effect of Distance of Analogy on Design Output

Katherine Fu, Joel Chan, Jonathan Cagan et al. · Journal of Mechanical Design · 2013 · 252 citations

“ Near ”, Conceptual Design, Law +17

Do the best design ideas (really) come from conceptually distant sources of inspiration?

Joel Chan, Steven P. Dow, Christian D. Schunn · Design Studies · 2014 · 146 citations

Architectural Design, Industrial Design, Design Innovation +11

Scaling up analogical innovation with crowds and AI

Aniket Kittur, Lixiu Yu, Tom Hope et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2019 · 121 citations · Full text

Providing Timely Examples Improves the Quantity and Quality of Generated Ideas

Pao Siangliulue, Joel Chan, Krzysztof Z. Gajos et al. · 2015 · 91 citations

Engineering, Online Experiment, Narrative Summarization +23

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