Concepedia

Kenneth Kotovsky

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43

Publications

4.1K

Citations

29

H-Index

1963

Active since

Affiliations

Carnegie Mellon University(Current)

University of Pittsburgh

The University of Texas at Austin

Singapore University of Technology and Design

University of California, Berkeley

Kenneth Kotovsky is an author at Carnegie Mellon University specializing in social sciences, design, and design thinking.

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DesignSocial SciencesDesign ThinkingCognitive ScienceEngineeringCognitionProject ManagementSystems EngineeringIndustrial DesignArchitectural Design

Publications per year

1963–2022

43

Publications

43

Why are some problems hard? Evidence from Tower of Hanoi

Kenneth Kotovsky, John R. Hayes, Herbert A. Simon · Cognitive Psychology · 1985 · 734 citations

Computational Complexity, Complexity Theory, Computational Problem +1

Human acquisition of concepts for sequential patterns.

Herbert A. Simon, Kenneth Kotovsky · Psychological Review · 1963 · 416 citations

Concept Formation, Cognitive Science, Human Acquisition +9

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

The role of timing and analogical similarity in the stimulation of idea generation in design

Ian Tseng, Jarrod Moss, Jonathan Cagan et al. · Design Studies · 2008 · 205 citations

Architectural Design, Idea Generation, Cognitive Science +15

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