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Career

· Tech Lead, KPMG SBA2016–
· Co-Founder and CTO, Thought&Function2016–
· Software Engineer, Barclays Investment Bank

Publications (72)

On the benefits and pitfalls of analogies for innovative design : Ideation performance based on analogical distance, commonness, and modality of examples
2011
295
cited
The Meaning of “Near” and “Far”: The Impact of Structuring Design Databases and the Effect of Distance of Analogy on Design Output
2012
276
cited
Do the best design ideas (really) come from conceptually distant sources of inspiration
2015
162
cited
Providing Timely Examples Improves the Quantity and Quality of Generated Ideas
Creativity & Cognition · 2015
109
cited
IdeaHound: Improving Large-scale Collaborative Ideation with Crowd-Powered Real-time Semantic Modeling
ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology · 2016
104
cited
Improving Crowd Innovation with Expert Facilitation
Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work · 2016
97
cited
The Impact of Analogies on Creative Concept Generation: Lessons From an In Vivo Study in Engineering Design
Cognitive Sciences · 2015
93
cited
Accelerating Innovation Through Analogy Mining
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining · 2017
92
cited
SOLVENT
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact. · 2018
82
cited
Scaling up analogical innovation with crowds and AI
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
73
cited
The importance of iteration in creative conceptual combination
Cognition · 2015
67
cited
Analogy as a strategy for supporting complex problem solving under uncertainty
Memory & Cognition · 2012
63
cited
Semantically Far Inspirations Considered Harmful?: Accounting for Cognitive States in Collaborative Ideation
Creativity & Cognition · 2017
61
cited
Understanding Older Adults' Participation in Design Workshops
International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · 2020
57
cited
Crowdboard: Augmenting In-Person Idea Generation with Real-Time Crowds
Creativity & Cognition · 2017
51
cited
Analogy Mining for Specific Design Needs
International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · 2017
49
cited
Augmenting Scientific Creativity with an Analogical Search Engine
ACM Trans. Comput. Hum. Interact. · 2022
47
cited
Fluid Transformers and Creative Analogies: Exploring Large Language Models’ Capacity for Augmenting Cross-Domain Analogical Creativity
Creativity & Cognition · 2023
45
cited
Comparing Different Sensemaking Approaches for Large-Scale Ideation
International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · 2016
43
cited
Learning to Recommend Visualizations from Data
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining · 2021
40
cited
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