Design Resarch Lab -- JAIST

NAGAI Yukari 　 †

What is the creativity in design?

Research targets are Design Creativity and Thinking Process in the Creative Design.

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Journal Papers/Books

A methodology to analyze in-depth impressions of design on the basis of concept networks, Nagai, Y., Georgiev, G.V., Zhou, F., J. Design Research, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 44-64, 2011.

The Role of Impressions on Users’ Tactile Interaction with Product Materials: An Analysis of Associative Concept Networks, Nagai, Y., Georgiev, G.V., Materials and Design 2011, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp.291–302, doi: 10.1016/ j.matdes.2010.05.040

A Conceptual Network Analysis of User Impressions and Meanings of Product Materials in Design, Georgiev, G.V., Nagai, Y., Materials and Design (Accepted article)

International Conferences
- A case study of open-ended creative practice based research, Y. Nagai, G.V. Georgiev, and I. Gwilt、3rd International Conference on Research into Design (ICoRD’11), 10-12 January, 2011, Bangalore, India, pp. 599-607.

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A method for the evaluation of meaning structures and its application in conceptual design, Georgiev, G, V, Nagai, Y, and Taura, T, J. Design Research, 2010, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp.214–234.

A Conceptual Network Approach to Structuring of Meanings in Design, Georgiev G.V., Nagai Y. and Taura T., The Bulletin of Japan Society of the Science of Design (JSSD), Vol. 56, No. 5, Issue No. 197, 2010, pp. 1-10.

International Conferences

Fasiha M. Y. N., Sakayama Y., Yamamoto E., Taura T., Nagai Y. (2010), Understanding　the nature of deep impressions by analyzing the structure of virtual impression networks, INTERNATIONAL DESIGN CONFERENCE - DESIGN 2010 , 2010/5/19, Dubrovnik, Croatia

Taura T., Yamamoto E., Fasiha M. Y. N., Nagai Y. (2010), Virtual impression networks for capturing deep impressions, FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DESIGN COMPUTING AND COGNITION (DCC'10), 559-578, Springer, 2010/7/14, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

Taura T.,Nagai Y. (2010), Discussion on Direction of Design Creativity Research (Part 1) - New Definition of Design and Creativity: Beyond the Problem-Solving Paradigm, The First International Conference on Design Creativity (ICDC2010), 3-8, Springer, 2010/11/29-12/1, Kobe

Nagai Y., Taura T.(2010), Discussion on Direction of Design Creativity Research (Part 2) - Research Issues and Methodologies: From the Viewpoint of Deep Feelings and Desirable Figure, The First International Conference on Design Creativity (ICDC2010), 9-14, Springer, 2010/11/29-12/1, Kobe

G.V. Georgiev, Y. Nagai, and T. Taura、A Study on the Convergence of Meaning and Creativity of the Generated Concepts in Design, The First International Conference on Design Creativity (ICDC2010), Kobe, Japan, Nov 29 - Dec 1, 2010.

I. Gwilt, G.V. Georgiev, and Y. Nagai、Fabrications of Natural and Artificial: A Case Study of Enhancing Users’ Impressions, The First International Conference on Design Creativity (ICDC2010), Kobe, Japan, Nov 29 - Dec 1, 2010.

F. Zhou, G.V. Georgiev, Y. Nagai and N. Morishita、Creative Design Thinking based on Understanding Human Imagination, The First International Conference on Design Creativity (ICDC2010), Kobe, Japan, Nov 29 - Dec 1, 2010.

Y. Nagai, G.V. Georgiev, and T. Taura、Users’ Tactile Interactions with New Product Materials: An Analysis of Depth Impressions based on Associative Concept Networks,　 ASME 2010 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference IDETC/CIE 2010, August 15-18, Montr醇Pal, Canada, Paper ID: DETC2010-28613.

Nagai Y., Taura T., Sano K.,(2010), Research Methodology for Internal Observation of Design Thinking in the Creative Self-formation Process, The First International Conference on Design Creativity (ICDC2010), 215-222, Springer, 2010/11/30, Kobe

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Designing of Emotional and Creative Motion, Taura T., Nagai Y., in S. Fukuda (ed.), Emotional Engineering, Springer (in Press)
Concept blending and dissimilarity:Factors for creative concept generation process, Nagai Y., Taura T., Mukai F., Design Studies 30 (2009) 648-675.

International Conferences
- A Method to Generate and Evaluate a Creative Design Idea by Focusing on Associative Process, Yamamoto E., Mukai F., Yusof N. F. M., Taura T.,　Nagai Y., 2009 IDETC / CIE., 2009/09/02, San Diego
- Virtual Modeling of Concept Generation Process for Understanding and Enhancing the Nature of Design Creativity, Yamamoto E., Goka M., Yusof N. F. M., Taura T., Nagai Y., ICED' 09: International Conference on Engineering Design, 2009/08/25, Stanford, U.S.A.
- A concept network method based on analysis of impressions formation: Color schemes of uniforms from impressions of seasons, Nagai Y., Zhou F., Taura T., Proceeding of International Association of Societies of Design Research, 10pages, 2009/10/19, Seoul, Korea
- A Definition of Design and its Creative Features, Taura T., Nagai Y., Proceeding of International Association of Societies of Design Research, 10pages, 2009/10/20, Seoul, Korea
- Poietiques based method for self-investigation of the creative processes in design, Sano K., Nagai Y., Taura T., Proceeding of International Association of Societies of Design Research, 10pages, 2009/10/20, Seoul, Korea

Expository Articles, Panels, Tutorials
- Towards the evaluation of meaning structures and its application in conceptual design, Georgiev G. V., Nagai Y., Taura T., 2009 ACM Creativity & Cognition conference, Workshop Creativity and Cognition in Engineering Design, 2009/10/28, Berkeley, USA

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Design motif abstraction: A drive for creative design - a paradigm for an ideal design -, Nagai, Y. & Taura, T., What is "What's the Design"? Special Issue of Japanese Society for the Science of Design, 16-2(62), 13-20, 8pages, 2009/02
Design creativity: Integration of design insight and design outsight, Taura, T. & Nagai, Y., What is "What's the Design"? Special Issue of Japanese Society for the Science of Design, 16-2(62), 55-60, 6pages, 2009/02
Heart of impressions, Yamamoto, E., Taura, T. & Nagai, Y., "What's the Design"? Special Issue of Japanese Society for the Science of Design, 16-2(62), 61-66, 6pages, 2009/02(2009)
An ontological approach to designers’ idea explanation style: Towards supporting the sharing of kansei-ideas in textile design, Ogawa, T., Nagai, Y. & Ikeda, M., Advanced Engineering Informatics, in press
Perceived Visual Roughness: Empirical Study on Effect of Shape, Rajapakse,　R.P.C. J., Miyata,K., Nagai,Y. & Chandrajith, A.M., The Journal of Three Dimensional Images, 22(2), 59-64,6pages, (2008)

International Conferences

Meaning Structure Modeling on The Design Conceptual Level. Georgiev G. V., Nagai Y., Taura T. and Morita J., Proceedings of TMCE2008，329-340. 12 pages，2008/04/24, Izmir,Turkey
Method of Design Evaluation Focused on Relations of Meanings for a Successful Design. Georgiev G. V., Nagai Y., Taura T.,International Design Conference-Design 2008, Proceedings of DESIGN 2008，1149-1158. 10 pages，2008/05/19, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Creative Method For Structuring The Meanings In Design. DCC08 2nd Design Creativity Workshop, Georgiev G. V., Nagai Y., Taura T.,CD-ROM. 6pages, 2008/6/22, Atlanta, USA
Concept Blending and Dissimilarity: Factors for Creative Design Process- A Comparison between the Linguistic Interpretation Process and Design Process. Design Research Society Conference 2008 , Nagai Y., Taura T., Mukai F., CD-ROM,22pages, 2008/07/16, Sheffield, England
Method of Design Through Structuring of Meanings, Georgiev G. V., Taura T., Chakrabarti A., Nagai Y., 2008 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE), CD-ROM. 10pages,2008/08/05, New York
A Method For Creative Behavioral Design Based On Analogy and Blending From Natural Things,Tsujimoto K., Miura S., Tsumaya A., Nagai Y., Chakrabarti A., Taura T., 2008 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE), CD-ROM. 9pages,2008/08/06, New York

East-Asian Collaborative Design Workshop,Seoul,2008/4/5-7,Taiwan,2008/4/19-20
Creative Method for Structuring the Meanings in Design, Georgiev, G. V., Nagai, Y., Taura, T., 2nd Design Creativity Workshop (DCW’08), 2008/6/22, Atlanta, USA
Dealing with diversity, Jonas Lowgren, Yukari Nagai, Artifact, Routledge Taylor&Francis Group, 2(1)2008, 1-2, 2pages, 2008/9
Creativity and design theory, a presentation of the creativity SIG. Taura,T. and Nagai, Y., DESIGN THEORY SIG SECOND WORKSHOP, 2009/2/2, ECOLE DES MINES DE PARIS

Edited Journals

Special Issue: Issues in design research and design research methods, guest editors: Jonas Lowgren,Yukari Nagai, Artifact, Routledge Taylor&Francis Group, 2(1)2008, 2008/9
What is "What's the Design" ?Special Issue of Japanese Society for the Science of Design, 16-2(62), 2009/02

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International Conferences

Coordinating Meanings of Logotypes for Support of Design Process.，Georgiev, G. V., Nagai, Y., Taura, T., and Morita, J.，Proceedings of ConnectED 2007，CD-ROM. 4 pages，2007/07
A Study on Design Creative Process Focused on Concept Combination Types in Comparison With Linguistic Interpretation Process，Taura, T., Nagai, Y., Morita, J., & Takeuchi, T. ，Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Engineering Design，CD-ROM. 12 pages，2007/08
Learning support for composition ability: Surface and structural similarity.，Morita, J., Nagai, Y., & Taura, T. ，Proceedings of the 16th International Conference of Engineering Design，CD-ROM. 10 pages，2007/08
A Study on Creativity in Comparison with Linguistic Interpretation.，Morita, J., Nagai, Y., Taura, T., & Takeuchi, T.，Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society，1319-1324，2007/08
The Effect of Shape on the Perception of Visual Roughness.，R.P.C Janaka Rajapakse, Kazunori Miyata, Yukari Nagai, Chandraith A. Marasinghe，Proceedings of International Symposium on Humanized Systems2007 CD-ROM, International Symposium on Humanized Systems，4pages，2007/9/13
Perceived Visual Roughness:Effect of Shape Characteristics，J.Rajapakse, K. Miyata, Y. Nagai, C.A.Marasinghe， Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Humans and Computers (HC'2007)，95-100,6pages，2007/10/13
Meaning Structure Modeling: A Methodology for Creative Design，Georgi V Georgiev, Yukari Nagai, Toshiharu Taura, Junya Morita，The Second International Conference on Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems, 86-91, 2007/11/5
Supporting Perspective Changes in Graphic Composition，Junya Morita, Yukari Nagai, Toshiharu Taura，The Second International Conference on Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems，18-25，2007/11/5
An Ontological Engineering Approach to Externalize Designers’ Communication Style in Support of Artistic idea Sharing，T. Ogawa, Y Nagai, M. Ikeda，Proceedings of the International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR)on CD-ROM,IASDR2007，2007/11
Where Does Creativity Come From?: Creative analysis using individual human knowledge model，Yasuhiro Mitsui, Yukari Nagai, Toshiharu Taura,，Proceedings of the International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR)on CD-ROM,IASDR2007，2007/11
Consideration of the Service Design Methodology，A Kondo,N Kondo,T Taura,Y Nagai，Proceedings of the International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR)on CD-ROM,IASDR2007，2007/11
Design Insight-A Key for Studying Creativity,T. Taura, Y. Nagai,NSF International workshop on studying design creativity 08,2008/3/10-11,Provence,France

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How Creative Design Space in Digital Painting，R.P.C.Janaka Rajapakse,Kazunori Miyata,Yukari Nagai,Chandrajith A. Marasinghe,Ajith.P.Madurapperuma，Proceedings of the First International Conference on Kansei Engineering & Intelligent Systems(KEIS'06)/the First International Conference on Kansei Engineering & Intelligent Systems2006，6pages，2006/9/5
Formal Description of Conceptual Synthesizing Process for Creative Design，Yukari Nagai and Toshiharu Taura，Proceedings of the SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on DESIGN COMPUTING AND COGNITION-DCC'06
Study of Concept Synthesis in Design Creativity - Role of action conceptin design creative process,，Y.Nagai, T.Taura, E. Edmonds, L. Candy and R. Okada， Design Research Society International Conference 'WonderGround?'in Lisbon，in Press，2006/11/04

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Behavioral design by operating underlying evaluation functions，Min An, Taura, T. and Nagai, Y.，Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Computer-Aided Industrial Design and Conceptual Design，55-63，2005/05/28
Primitives and Princeples of Synthetic Process for Creative Design-Taxonomical Relation and Thematic Relation，Toshiharu Taura and Yukari Nagai，Computational and Cognitive Models of Creative Design VI, edtied by JS. Gero and ML. Maher，177-194，2005/12/10
Found Behavior: Key of Interface Design - Interface Design Originated from Interactive Experience，Hideo Terasawa, Toshiharu Taura and Yukari Nagai，2005IDCInternational Design Congress IASDR 2005，2005/10
Transformation of Concept Space in Design Thinking，Yuta Takeuchi, Yukari Nagai and Toshiharu Taura，2005IDCInternational Design Congress IASDR 2005，2005/10
Conceptual Blending in Design Creative Process，Yukari Nagai, Yuta Takeuchi and Toshiharu Taura，Abs. of the 9th ICLC，2005/06/10
Sustainable Design Method Focusing on Latent Function，Kazusa Minami, Yukari Nagai and Toshiharu Taura，4th International Symposium EcoDesign? 2005，on CD-ROM，2005/12/14
Behavioral Design Method Based on Synthesized Evaluation Functions，Min An, Toshiharu Taura and Yukari Nagai，2005IDCInternational Design Congress IASDR 2005，2005/10
Study on Conceptual Synthesis in Design Creation -Role of Thematic Relation in Creativity-，Junichi Harakawa, Yukari Nagai and Toshiharu Taura，2005IDC, International Design Congress IASDR 2005，2005/10/
Study on Latent Function for Sustainable Design - Feature extraction in Latent Function discovery process，Kazsa Minami, Yukari Nagai and Toshiharu Taura，The 1st International Design Congress，2005/10/01
DESIGN SPACE BLENDING-A KEY FOR CREATIVE DESIGN，Toshiharu Taura, Yukari Nagai and Shinji Tanaka，INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENGINEERING DESIGNICED 05 MELBOURNE, AUGUST 15-18, 2005，CD-R，2005/08/17

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An Experimental Study in the Design Thinking Process Started from Difficult Keywords-Modelling the Thinking Process of Creative Design,，Yukari Nagai& Hisataka Noguchi，Journal of Engineering Design，14，4，429-437，2004/01/11
On the implicit Intention in the incubation and pre-inventive structure of creative design thinking,，Noguchi, H. and Nagai, Y.，Proceedings of Future Ground 2004 Conference，printing，2004/11/23

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Dynamic Cognition in Design Thinking Process，Yukari Nagai，Proceedings of the 14th International Conference of Engineering Design , ICED03,，1，1， 687-688，2003/08/11
Representations of design Thinking- A Review of Recent Studies，Yukari Nagai, Linda Candy, Ernest Edmonds，Journal of the Asian Design International Conference，1，1，CD-ROM No341，2003/10/20

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Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.

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E-mail: ynagai@jaist.ac.jp

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