Schedule †
Publications †
2010 †
- Georgiev, G.V., Nagai, Y. and Taura, T. (2010) ‘A method for the evaluation of meaning structures and its application in conceptual design’, J. Design Research, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp.214–234.
- G.V. Georgiev, Y. Nagai and T. Taura: “A Conceptual Network Approach to Structuring of Meanings in Design,” The Bulletin of Japan Society of the Science of Design (JSSD), Vol. 56, No. 5, Issue No. 197, 2010, pp. 1-10.
2009 †
- Concept blending and dissimilarity:Factors for creative concept generation process, Nagai Y., Taura T., Mukai F., Design Studies, 30(6), 623-647, 25pages, 2009/11
- 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
- Georgi V Georgiev, Yukari Nagai, Toshiharu Taura, Towards the evaluation of meaning structures and its application in conceptual design, ACM Creativity and Cognition (CC09), 2009/10/28, Workshop "Creativity and Cognition in Engineering Design", Berkeley, USA
2008 †
- 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 is "What's the Design" ?Special Issue of Japanese Society for the Science of Design, 16-2(62), 61-66, 6pages, 2009/02
- 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, 23, 157-164, 2009
- 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
- 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
2007 †
- Where Does Creativity Come From?: Creative design analysis using individual human knowledge model, Yasuhiro Mitsui, Yukari Nagai, Toshiharu Taura，Proceedings of the International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR).
- Method of Object Extraction for Architecture: Object Approach towards a Logical Design Focusing on User Knowledge，Yasuhiro Mitsui, Yukari Nagai, Toshiharu Taura，The Second International Conference on Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems, 130-137, 2007/11/5
- 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
- Taura, T., Nagai, Y., Morita, J., and Takeuchi, T. STUDY OF DESIGN CREATIVITY USING A LINGUISTIC INTERPRETATION PROCESS TO CHARACTERIZE TYPES OF THINKING. ICED 2007. (CD-Rom 12pages)
- Morita, J., Nagai, Y., Taura, T., and Takeuchi, T. A Study on Creativity in Comparison with Linguistic Interpretation In D. S. McNamara? & J. G. Trafton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1319-1324). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
- Georgiev, G. V., Nagai, Y., Taura, T., and Morita, J. Coordinating Meanings of Logotypes for Support of Design Process. ConnectED 2007 (CD-ROM, 4 pages)
- Method of Graphic Design by Coordination of Meanings - Values and Relations of Meanings of Symbols. Georgiev, G, V, Nagai, Y, Taura, T, Morita J. 日本デザイン学会研究発表大会概要集, Vol. 54, 2007/06
2006 †
- Formal Description of Conceptual Synthesizing Process for Creative Design, Yukari Nagai and Toshiharu Taura, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition, 2006
- Encourage Young Children's Creativity by Curiosity and Imagination. LIU Chang-Ching，Nagai Yukari，TAURA Toshiharu, The 53rd Annual Conference of JSSD, pp25-26, 2006/07
- Method of Creative Graphic Design Focusing on Multiple Meanings: A systematic approach to meanings of symbols, Georgi V. Georgiev, Yukari Nagai, Toshiharu Taura, Proceedings of The 53rd Annual Conference of JSSD, pp16-17, 2006/07
2005 †
- 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, pp177-194, 2005/12
- 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
- Study on Conceptual Synthesis in Design Creation -Role of Thematic Relation in Creativity-, Junichi Harakawa, Yukari Nagai and Toshiharu Taura, International Design Congress IASDR, 2005/10/
- Behavioral Design Method Based on Synthesized Evaluation Functions, Min An, Toshiharu Taura and Yukari Nagai, International Design Congress IASDR, 2005/10
- Factor of Growth for Designers in an Early Career Stage, Hisao Hamazaki, Yukari Nagai, Hisataka Noguchi, International Design Congress IASDR, 2005/10
- Transformation of Concept Space in Design Thinking, Yuta Takeuchi, Yukari Nagai and Toshiharu Taura, International Design Congress IASDR, 2005/10
- Found Behavior: Key of Interface Design - Interface Design Originated from Interactive Experience, Hideo Terasawa, Toshiharu Taura and Yukari Nagai, International Design Congress IASDR, 2005/10
- DESIGN SPACE BLENDING-A KEY FOR CREATIVE DESIGN, Toshiharu Taura, Yukari Nagai and Shinji Tanaka, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENGINEERING DESIGN MELBOURNE, 2005/8, CD-R, 2005/08
- Conceptual Blending in Design Creative Process, Yukari Nagai, Yuta Takeuchi and Toshiharu Taura, Abs. of the 9th ICLC, 2005/06
- 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, pp55-63, 2005/05/28
- How can writing essays or drawing maps invoke feelings? Yohei Fukushi and Yukari Nagai, International Symposium on New Perspectives in Affective Science, Kyoto University 21st century COE program, pp45, 2005/1
- How Feelings Are Represented in Design Process, Yuuka Takeuchi, Yukari Nagai and Toshiharu Taura, nternational Symposium on New Perspectives in Affective Science, Kyoto University 21st century COE program, pp45, 2005/1
2004 †
- 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, Vol 14, No 4, pp429-437 , 2004/01/11
- On the implicit Intention in the incubation and pre-inventive structure of creative design thinking, Hisataka Noguchi, and Yukari Nagai, Proceedings of Future Ground 2004 Conference, 2004/11/23
- The Career Design Individual and Organzaition, Hisao Hamazaki, Yukari Nagai, The fifth International Symposium on Knowledge and Systems Science, 2004
2003 †
- 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
- Dynamic Cognition in Design Thinking Process, Yukari Nagai, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference of Engineering Design, ICED03, 1, 1, pp687-688, 2003/08/11
- How Designers Create Meaning by Metaphors, Nagai, Yukari, The 1st Conference 'Creating Communicational Spaces' COMSPACE, Canada, 2003/05/08
