Linkographic Analysis of Design Ideation Session: Idea Graph Representation and Additional Tools for Analysis

Abdellatif Dkhil (1) , Mickaël Gardoni (1) , Lamine Belgacem (2) , Remy Houssin (3)

1 ETS - Ecole de Technologie Supérieure [Montréal]
2 Bombardier Canada
3 INSA Strasbourg - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Strasbourg

Linkography is a method for analysis of ideation process in the conceptual design stage. This method has been used to provide information about the ideation session, to investigate the structure of idea generation process and to compare idea session productivity. The progress of an ideation session is made observable through the analysis of connection between ideas. The main goal of this paper is to improve the analysis of idea generation session. Through the use of graph theory for visualizing and analyzing the connection between ideas.

Mots clés: Linkography; Conceptual design; Ideation; Graph; Analysis tools

Domaines: Informatique [cs]

Abdellatif Dkhil, Mickaël Gardoni, Lamine Belgacem, Remy Houssin. Linkographic Analysis of Design Ideation Session: Idea Graph Representation and Additional Tools for Analysis. 15th IFIP International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Jul 2018, Turin, Italy. pp.715-725, ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-01614-2_65⟩. ⟨hal-02075546⟩