Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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378565 | Cognitive Systems Research | 2009 | 12 Pages |
Abstract
We present an analysis of the work of human participants in addressing design problems by analogy. We describe a computer program, called Galatea, that simulates the visual input and output of four experimental participants. Since Galatea is an operational computer program, it makes specific commitments about the visual representations and reasoning it uses for analogical transfer. In particular, Galatea provides a computational model of how human designers might be generating new designs by incremental transfer of the problem-solving procedure used in previous design cases.
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Authors
Jim Davies, Ashok K. Goel, Nancy J. Nersessian,