Results of the NSF CMMI Sponsored Workshop:

“Discussion on Individual and Team-Based Innovation

 

In conjunction with the NSF CMMI Engineering Research and Innovation Conference 2008 held in Knoxville, TN, a one day workshop, entitled “Discussion on Individual and Team-Based Innovation,” was offered on Monday, January 7, 2008 to Conference participants. The Discussion introduced attendees to issues in cognition and social science and related these to engineering design practice and research.  The Discussion was interactive, including a relevant exercise in the use of cognitive modeling in engineering design. It provided a forum to begin to generate and explore near, intermediate, and long-term research needs in innovation. 

 

The Discussion addressed the following questions:

 

Workshop Schedule:

7:30 AM Light Refreshments

8:00 AM  Welcome / Prelude  / Discussion Goals

Session 1: Cognitive and Social Psychology

Session 2: Participant Breakouts

Session 3: Cognitive Experiment

Session 4: Relation to Engineering Research and Education (over lunch)

Session 3b: Results from Cognitive Experiment and discussion

2:00 PM Adjourn

We appreciate the support of NSF for this workshop and the enthusiastic participation by the workshop attendees.  The following links provide access to the workshop presentations and initial findings.  Further updates to this web site will occur during May 2008 after all workshop date have been processed.  The results from the workshop experiment and the NSF Workshop Final Report will be posted at that time.

Introduction Presentation:

Keynote / Invited Presentations

Innovation Research Findings:

Breakout Session Results:

Preliminary Workshop Study Analysis and Findings (A much more complete analysis will be published in May 2008):

If you have any questions, please contact:

Professor Kristin Wood
University of Texas
wood@mail.utexas.edu

      or
Professor Jonathan Cagan
Carnegie Mellon University
cagan@cmu.edu