Co-authored by Nicoleta Meslec, Daniel Graff and Mark A. Clark, the paper "Increasing Team Ideation by Sequencing the Task Type and Content" clinched the Design Studies Best Paper Award 2020. Daniel Graff is an assistant professor at the College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University.
The paper "Increasing Team Ideation by Sequencing the Task Type and Content" clinches the Design Studies Best Paper Award 2020
The authors proposed and tested in the paper the usefulness of sequencing variations in task type and content to facilitate team ideation in a team creativity task. In a repeated measures design, the authors assessed team ideation before and after exposure to one of three randomized variations in sequences of task type and content. After this intervention, teams exposed to tasks that were dissimilar in content or type experienced the highest increase in variety of ideas produced. The results were relevant for practice as they suggested that structuring team tasks to alternate content may help improve team creativity. As an expert in the spheres of design and innovation, Daniel Graff has long been engaged in the design and development of products and services in the East and West settings and in the teams. His research results have been published in top academic journals related to design, design education and group research. He has also given lectures at global conferences and workshops.
Prof. Daniel Graff
Design Studies is a leading international academic journal focused on developing understanding of design processes. This Design Studies Best Paper Award is made annually jointly by Elsevier Science and the Design Research Society (DRS) to honor papers meeting the following criteria: contribution to the development of the field of design research, originality of research or scholarship, breadth of relevance, and clarity and style of presentation. Until March 31, 2022, all nominated papers for the Award can be downloaded for free on the homepage of Design Studies.
Snippets of the paper
https://news.tongji.edu.cn/info/1003/77737.htm
