Joel Chan

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