Design Resarch Lab -- JAIST

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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES (REFEREED PAPERS):

I. D, Gwilt., Sano, K., Nagai, Y., O'Dubhghaill, C. (2013) DATA BRONZE: The Influence of Material Choices on the Understanding of Information Represented as A Physical Object, The 5th International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR) World Conference on Design Research, Tokyo, Japan, August 26-30, 2013
Junaidy, Deny W., Nagai, Y. (2013) Dialectical-belief Features in Design Education for Artisans, The 5th International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR) World Conference on Design Research, Tokyo, Japan, August 26-30, 2013.
Georgiev, Georgi V., Nagai, Yukari., Noda, Saori., Junaidy, Deny W., Taura, Toshiharu. (2013) An Investigation of vehicle interface operation comfort, 19th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED13), Korea, 14-22 August 2013 (Accepted).
Nagai, Y., Junaidy, Deny W. (2013) Empowering Cognitive Fixedness, Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition, pp. 292-295, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Sydney, Australia, 17-20 June 2013.
Junaidy, Deny W., Nagai, Y. (2013) Co-Creation Model for Traditional Artisans in the Current Creative Environment, Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition, pp. 324-327, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Sydney, Australia, 17-20 June 2013.
Junaidy, Deny W., Nagai, Y. (2013) The imaginative approach: Characteristics of craft artisans’ and design trainers’ in‐depth cognitive levels during a design training program, DRS CUMULUS 2013, International Conference for Design Education Researchers, Oslo, Norway, 14-17 May 2013.
Junaidy, Deny W., Nagai, Y., Ihsan, M. (2013) Craftsmen vs. Designers: The Difference of In-depth Level of Cognition at the Early Stage of Idea Generation, IIT Madras, Chennai, India, in ICoRD’13, Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, A. Chakrabarti and R. V. Prakash (eds.), Springer India, p. 223-234.
DOI: 10.1007/978-81-322-1050-4_18

DOMESTIC CONFERENCES (NON-REFEREED PAPERS):

Junaidy, Deny W., Nagai, Y. (2013) A Direction to Change Craftsmen’ Creative Cognition: The Use of Highly Metaphorical Words, The 60th Annual Conference of JSSD, Bulletin JSSD Vol. 60, pp. 36-37, Tsukuba, Japan, June 21-23 2013.
Yoshida, Toru., Mori, S., Taniguchi, S., Junaidy, Deny W. (2013) Research on Children's Formative Play Culture and Creativity, Proceeding of The Annual Conference of JSSD, Vol. 60, pp. 38-39, Tsukuba, Japan, June 21-23 2013.

JOURNAL (INTERNATIONAL):

Junaidy, Deny W., Nagai, Y. (2013) The In-depth Cognitive Levels of Imagination of Artisans and Designers. Journal of Design Research (JDR), (in press).

JOURNAL (LOCAL):

Junaidy, Deny W., Nakamori, Y., Hirata, M., Nagai, Y. Evaluation on Color Fabrics for Comfort in Health Care Interior Facility. (2013) The Bulletin of Japanese Society for the Science of Design (JSSD), (in press).

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2012 †

BOOKS:

Taura, T., Nagai, Y. (2012) Concept Generation for Design Creativity: A Systematized Theory and Methodology，Springer. Web

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES (REFEREED PAPERS):

Georgiev, G. V., Nagai Y., Taura, T., Noda, S. and Junaidy, Deny W. (2012) Analysis of User Feelings during Interface Operation: Implications for Creative Design, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Design Creativity (ICDC2012), pp. 143-151, Glasgow, UK, 18th-20th September.
Yamada, K., Taura, T. and Nagai, Y. (2012) Study on The Use of Mimetic Words in Motion Design , Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Design Creativity (ICDC2012), pp. 3-10, Glasgow, UK, 18th-20th September.
Nagai, Y., Noda, S., Georgiev, G. V., Taura, T., and Junaidy, Deny W. (2012) Analysis Method Focusing on Repeated and Not Repeated Verbalizations during Human Interface Operation, Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 2012, pp. 2792, Sapporo, Japan, 1-4 August.
Junaidy, Deny W., Nagai, Y., Hanan, H. (2012) ‘A Study on The Characteristic of Thought of 3D Digital Architects’, Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Design Research Society (DRS 2012), Vol. 4, pp. 1995-2008, Bangkok, 1-5 July.
Georgi V. Georgiev., Nagai, Y., Taura, T. (2012) Analysis of the Formation of User Impressions Upon Tactile Interaction with Product Design Materials, (TMCE Symposia 2012) Tools and Methods of Competitive Engineering, May 7-11, Karlsruhe, Germany.

DOMESTIC CONFERENCES (NON-REFEREED PAPERS):

Junaidy, Deny W., Nagai, Y., Ihsan, M. (2012) Capturing Craftsmen’s and Designers’ Associative Concept at In-depth Level of Cognition at the Early Stage of Idea Generation, Proceeding of Design Symposium 2012, pp. 245-249, Kyoto, Japan, 16-17 October.
Nagai, Y., Junaidy, Deny W., Ihsan, Muhammad. (2012) A Creativity Gap in Design Training: a case study of pre and post-design and creativity training for wooden sandal craftsmen in Tasikmalaya, Indonesia, Proceedings of the 59th Annual Conference of JSSD, Sapporo, 22-24 June.

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REFEREED PAPERS:

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
A Conceptual Network Analysis of User Impressions and Meanings of Product Materials in Design, Georgiev, G.V., Nagai, Y., Materials and Design, Vol. 32, No. 8-9, pp. 4230-4240
Model of Meta-Reflection and In-Depth Analysis of Knowledge Creation Process in Design, Georgiev, G.V., Nagai, Y., International Journal of Knowledge and Systems Science (IJKSS), Special Issue on Knowledge Creation, Knowledge Management and Imagination, 2(2), 49-67, April-June 2011
Design Insight, Taura T., Nagai　Y., in JS. Gero (ed.), Studying Design Creativity, Springer (2011) (in Press)
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.
Georgiev, G.V., and Nagai, Y., (2011) Time Factor of Core Emotions Derived from Design Materials: Towards a Deeper Understanding of Product Experience. The 4th World Conference on Design Research, IASDR2011, The International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR), October 31 - November 4, 2011, Delft, The Netherlands.
Morishita, N., Georgiev, G.V., and Nagai, Y., (2011) Material-inspired Design Opportunities. The 4th World Conference on Design Research, IASDR2011, The International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR), October 31 - November 4, 2011, Delft, The Netherlands.
Georgiev, G.V., and Nagai, Y., (2011) The Taste of Criticism: Enhancing Feedback for Creativity. The 8th ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition (C&C 2011), 3-6 November 2011, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
G.V. Georgiev, and Y. Nagai: “An Approach to Analyzing User Impressions and Meanings of Product Materials in Design”, Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Engineering Design ICED11, Ed: Culley, S.J.; Hicks, B.J.; Mc Aloone, T.C.; Howard, T.J. & Badke-Schaub, P., Vol. 7, pp. 162-169, 15-19 August, 2011,Copenhagen, Denmark.

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BOOKS:

Taura, T., Nagai, Y (Eds.). (2010) Design Creativity 2010，Springer. Web

REFEREED PAPERS:

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.
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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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

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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 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

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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

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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

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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

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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, 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

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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

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