Hasso-Plattner-Institut
Neurodesign
 

Neurodesign Publications

2023

Jaschek, C, von Thienen, J. P. A., Borchart, K.-P. & Meinel, C. (2023). The CollaboUse Test for automated creativity measurement in individuals and teams: A construct validation study. Creativity Research Journal. Special Issue on Advancements in the Measurement and Evaluation of Creativity.

von Thienen, J. P. A., Kolodny, O. & Meinel, C. (2023). Neurodesign: The biology, psychology and engineering of creative thinking and innovation. In N. Rezaei (ed.), Brain, Decision-Making, and Mental Health (pp. 617–659). Cham: Springer.

Auri, L., McKee, H. & Meinel, C. (2023). Embodied sound generation - introducing the unexpected: Sound and movement enhanced storytelling. Full presentation at the MIC conference on creativity, Sept 11-13, Trieste, Italy. 

Borchart, K. P. & Meinel, C. (2023). Process-based creativity assessments for faster, more objective, and scalable creativity assessments. Full presentation at the MIC conference on creativity, Sept 11-13, Trieste, Italy. 

Manaswini, M., McKee, H., Meinel, C., Arnrich, B. & von Thienen, J. P. A. (2023). From lab to life: Physiologically informed creativity research in naturalistic settings. Full presentation at the MIC conference on creativity, Sept 11-13, Trieste, Italy. 

Mckee, H., Strauch, T., Steigerwald, P., Hilbrich, L., Meinel, C.,  Arnrich, B. & von Thienen, J. P. A. (2023).Smart Garden Office: Enhancing workplace creativity and well-being with interactive sound systems in nature. Full presentation at the MIC conference on creativity, Sept 11-13, Trieste, Italy. 

von Thienen, J. P. A., Weinstein, T. J. & Meinel, C. (2023). Thinking about creative thinking: The 4P framework of creative metacognition. Full presentation at the MIC conference on creativity, Sept 11-13, Trieste, Italy. 

von Thienen, J. P. A., Weinstein, T. J. & Meinel, C. (2023). Creative metacognition in design thinking: Exploring theories, educational practices, and their implications for measurement.Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1-20.

 

2022

Auernhammer, J., & Roth, B. (2022). Different types of productive thinking in design: From rational to social design thinking. In Design Thinking Research (pp. 271-290). Springer, Cham.

Auernhammer, J., Leifer, L., Meinel, C., & Roth, B. (2022). A humanistic and creative philosophy of design. In Design Thinking Research (pp. 1-15). Springer, Cham.

Auernhammer, J., Zallio, M., Domingo, L., & Leifer, L. (2022). Facets of Human-Centered Design: The Evolution of Designing by, with, and for People. In Design Thinking Research (pp. 227-245). Springer, Cham.

Balters, S., Weinstein, T. J., Mayseless, N., Auernhammer, J., Hawthorne, G., Steinert, M., Meinel, C., Leifer, L. J., & Reiss, A. L. (2023). Design science and neuroscience: A systematic review of the emergent field of Design Neurocognition. Design Studies, 84, 101148. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.destud.2022.101148 

Meinel, C. & von Thienen, J. P. A. (2022). Design thinking – Enabling digital engineering students to be creative and innovate. In Design Thinking in Education (pp. 9-23). Cham: Springer.

Ohashi, T., Auernhammer, J., Liu, W., Pan, W., & Leifer, L. (2022). NeuroDesignScience: Systematic Literature Review of Current Research on Design Using Neuroscience Techniques. Design Computing and Cognition’20, 575-592.

von Thienen, J. P. A., Borchart, K.-P., Walsleben, L., Bartsch, D. & Meinel, C. (2022). Modelling the impact of political environments on creativity and innovation. Full presentation at the MIC conference on creativity, Aug 31 – Sept 2, Bologna, Italy. 

von Thienen, J. P. A. & Borchart, K.-P. (2022, May 11). Design thinking methods for stakeholder analyses. Invited presentation for the Bundesamt für Verbraucherschutz und Lebensmittelsicherheit, Berlin, Germany.

von Thienen, J. P. A., Hartmann, C. & Meinel, C. (2022). Different concepts of human needs and their relation to innovation outcomes. In H. Plattner, C. Meinel and L. Leifer (eds.), Design thinking research. Achieving real innovation (pp. 209-226). Cham: Springer.

von Thienen, J. P. A., Szymanski, C., Weinstein, T., Rahman, S. & Meinel, C. (2022).  Design thinking, neurodesign and facilitating worthwhile change: Towards a curriculum for innovation engineering. In C. Meinel & T. Krohn (eds.). Design thinking in education. Innovation can be learned (pp. 61-91). Cham: Springer.

Weinstein, T. J., Ceh, S. M., Meinel, C., & Benedek, M. (2022). What’s creative about sentences? A computational approach to assessing creativity in a sentence generation task. Creativity Research Journal. Special Issue on Advancements in the Measurement and Evaluation of Creativity,34(4), 419-430.

 

2021

Auernhammer, J., Sonalkar, N. and Saggar, M. (2021). NeuroDesign: From Neuroscience Research to Design Thinking Practice. In Meinel & Leifer (ed.) Design Thinking Research. Springer.

Borchart, K.-P., von Thienen, J., & Meinel, C. (2021) C-Tracer: Automatic creativity measurement for any goal-directed behaviour that leaves digital traces.MIC conference of creativity, Sept 8-10, Bologna, Italy.

Corazza, G. E. & von Thienen, J. P. A. (2021). Invention [dictionary entry]. In V. P. Glăveanu (ed.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

Jaschek, C., Borchart, K.-P., Krebs, E., von Thienen, J., Meinel, C. (2021). Improving creative team performance and togetherness in remote interaction via motion-based games. MIC conference of creativity, Sept 8-10, Bologna, Italy.

Liu A. Li B. Wang X. Zhang S. Zhu Y. Liu W. (2021) NeuroDesignScience: An fNIRS-Based System Designed to Help Pilots Sustain Attention during Transmeridian Flights. Intelligent Human Systems Integration 2021. IHSI 2021. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing vol 1322. Springer Cham. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-68017-6_25

Maltenberger, T., Ilic, I., Weinstein, T., Ceh, S., & Benedek, M. (2021, September). Automated analysis of language creativity. MIC Conference of Creativity, Sept 8-10, Bologna, Italy.

McKee, H., von Thienen, J., Rahman, S. & Meinel, C. (2020). Comparing different forms of automated creativity measurement in the study of individual and collaborative creative writing. MIC Conference of Creativity, Sept. 8-10, Bologna, Italy. 

Meinel, C. & von Thienen, J. P. A. (2021). Design Thinking – Befähigung der Digital Engineering Studierenden zu Kreativität und Innovation. In C. Meinel & T. Krohn (eds.). Design Thinking in der Bildung. Innovation kann man lernen. Wiley. 

Saggar, M. et al. (2021). Creativity and the brain: An editorial introduction to the special issue on the neuroscience of creativity. NeuroImage Special Issue.

von Thienen, J. P. A. (2021). Innovation modelling with the example of sustainability developments – insights for governance and administration. Modern Biotechnology in a changing world: Health, Environment and Regulation, Berlin, Germany, Oktober 6-7.

von Thienen, J. P. A., Borchart, K.-P., Jaschek, C., Krebs, E., Hildebrand, J., Rätz, H. & Meinel, C. (2021). Leveraging video games to improve IT-solutions for remote work. IEEE Conference on Games (CoG 2021), full paper no. 102, available at: https://ieee-cog.org/2021/assets/papers/paper_102.pdf

von Thienen, J. P. A., Clancey, W. J. & Meinel, C. (2021). Theoretical foundations of design thinking. Part III: Robert H. McKim’s visual thinking theories. In H. Plattner, C. Meinel and L. Leifer (eds.), Design thinking research. Interrogating the doing (pp. 9-72). Cham: Springer.

von Thienen, J. P. A. & Meinel, C. (2021). Neurodesign – Synergies at the intersection of engineering, neuroscience and design thinking innovation. MIC conference of creativity, Sept 8-10, Bologna, Italy.

von Thienen, J. P. A., Szymanski, C., Santuber, J., Plank, I. S., Rahman, S., Weinstein, T., Owoyele, B., Bauer, M. & Meinel, C. (2021). Neurodesign live. In H. Plattner, C. Meinel and L. Leifer (eds.), Design thinking research. Interrogating the doing (pp. 357-425). Cham: Springer.

von Thienen, J. P. A., Szymanski, C., Weinstein, T. & Meinel, C. (2021).  Neurodesign Cards: From neuroscience research to creative practice. MIC conference of creativity, Sept 8-10, Bologna, Italy.

von Thienen, J. P. A. & Walsleben, L. (2021). Modelling individual, organisational, and governmental decisions concerning the development of sustainable, new products. Sustainable Development and the Law: Potential and Challenges of Using Behavioural Insights, Hamburg, Germany, Sept 23-24.

von Thienen, J. P. A., Weinstein, T., Szymanski, C., Rahman, S. & Meinel, C. (2021). Design Thinking, Neurodesign und Curricula für das Innovation Engineering. In C. Meinel & T. Krohn (eds.). Design Thinking in der Bildung. Innovation kann man lernen. Wiley. 

 

2020

Krebs, E., Jaschek, C., von Thienen, J., Borchart, K. P., Meinel, C., & Kolodny, O. Designing a Video Game to Measure Creativity. IEEE Conference on Games (CoG 2020), full paper no. 148, available at https://ieee-cog.org/2020/papers/paper_148.pdf

Jaschek, C., Borchart, K., Krebs, E., Meinel, C., Kolodny, O. & von Thienen, J. (2020). Immune Defense. A video game to measure creativity. Presentation at the MIC Conference of Creativity, Sept. 14-16, Bologna, Italy. 

D’Aleman, N., Chafe, C. & von Thienen, J. (2020). Brainwave etudes: Composition and improvisation with brain data. Presentation at the MIC Conference of Creativity, Sept. 14-16, Bologna, Italy. 

McKee, H., Rahman, S., von Thienen, J., Seidel, L., Grzelka, F., Gloeckner, P. & Meinel, C. (2020). Measuring creative flow in real-time using consumer-grade EEG coupled with a neural network. Presentation at the MIC Conference of Creativity, Sept. 14-16, Bologna, Italy. 

Tim Strauch, T., Hartmann, L., Hilbrich, L., Steigerwald, P., Chafe, C. & von Thienen, J. (2020). Audible spatialization of EEG data in the context of creativity studies. Presentation at the MIC Conference of Creativity, Sept. 14-16, Bologna, Italy. 

D’Aleman Arrango, N., von Thienen, J. & von Coler, H. (2020). The Brainwave Virtual Instrument: Musical improvisation and brainwave sonification via Faust programming. Proceedings of the 2nd International Faust Conference (IFC-20), Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Paris Nord, France, December 1-2. Available at: https://ifc20.sciencesconf.org/332720/document

Auernhammer J. Liu W. Ohashi T. Leifer L. Byler E. Pan W. (2021) NeuroDesign: Embracing Neuroscience Instruments to Investigate Human Collaboration in Design. Human Interaction Emerging Technologies and Future Applications III. IHIET 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing vol 1253. Springer Cham.  

 

2019

von Thienen, J. P. A., Clancey, W. J. & Meinel, C. (2019). Theoretical foundations of design thinking. Part II: Robert H. McKim’s need-based design theory. In H. Plattner, C. Meinel and L. Leifer (eds.), Design thinking research. Looking further: Design thinking beyond solution-fixation (13-38). Cham: Springer.

von Thienen, J. P. A. & Meinel, C. (2019). Balancing child-like and adult approaches in creative pursuits: The sense-focus model of creative mastery. Presentation at the European Collaborative Creativity Conference EC3, June 20-22, Bologna, Italy. Paper available at https://mic.fgm.it/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/ec3-mic-conference-2019_book-of-abstracts_online2.pdf

 

2018

Szymanski, C. (2018). Neural synchronization patterns during interpersonal action coordination [dissertation]. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Sonalkar, N., Jahanikia, S., Xie, H., Geniesse, C., Ayub, R., Beaty, R. and Saggar. M. (2019). Mining  the Role of Design Reflection and Associated Brain Dynamics in Creativity

Mayseless, N., Hawthorne, G. and Reiss A. (2019). The Neuroscience of Team Collaboration During a Design Thinking Event in Naturalistic Settings

 

2017

von Thienen, J. P. A., Clancey, W. J., Corazza, G. E. & Meinel, C. (2017). Theoretical foundations of design thinking. Part I: John E. Arnold’s creative thinking theories. In H. Plattner, C. Meinel and L. Leifer (eds.), Design thinking research. Making distinctions: Collaboration versus cooperation (13-40). Cham: Springer.

Szymanski, C., Pesquita, A., Brennan, A. A., Perdikis, D., Enns, J. T., Brick, T. R., ... & Lindenberger, U. (2017). Teams on the same wavelength perform better: Inter-brain phase synchronization constitutes a neural substrate for social facilitation. Neuroimage, 152, 425-436.

Szymanski, C., Müller, V., Brick, T. R., von Oertzen, T., & Lindenberger, U. (2017). Hyper-transcranial alternating current stimulation: experimental manipulation of inter-brain synchrony. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 11, 539.

Saggar, Quintin Bott, Kienitz, Chien, Hong, Liu, Royalty, Hawthorne, and Reiss. 2017. Cerebral Cortex. (2017). Changes in Brain Activation Associated with Spontaneous Improvization and Figural Creativity After Design-Thinking-Based Training: A Longitudinal fMRI Study

Mayseless, N., Saggar, M., Hawthorne, G. and Reiss, A. (2017). Creativity in the Twenty-first Century: The Added Benefit of Training and Cooperation

von Thienen, J. P. A., Meinel, C., & Corazza, G. E. (2017). A short theory of failure. Electronic Colloquium on Design Thinking Research. ecdtr.hpi-web.de/report/2017/001

 

2016

von Thienen, J. P. A., Ford, C. & Meinel, C. (2016). The emergence of design thinking in Californian engineering classes: Four historic concepts worth knowing. Presentation at the MIC Conference 2016: From creative brains to creative societies, Bologna, Italy.

Grace Hawthorne, Manish Saggar, Eve-Marie Quintin, Nick Bott, Eliza Keinitz, Ning LiuYin-Hsuan Chien, Daniel Hong, Adam Royalty, and Allan L. Reiss (2016). Designing a Creativity Assessment Tool for the Twenty-First Century: Preliminary Results and Insights from Developing a Design-Thinking Based Assessment of Creative Capacity

 

2015

Manish Saggar, Lindsay C. Chromik, Adam Royalty, Grace Hawthorne, and Allan L. Reiss (2015). Developing Novel Neuroimaging Paradigm to Assess Neural Correlates of Improvisation and Creative Thinking Using fMRI

Manish Saggar, Eve-Marie Quintin, Eliza Kienitz, Nicholas T. Bott, Zhaochun Sun, Wei-Chen Hong, Yin-hsuan Chien, Ning Liu, Robert F. Dougherty, Adam Royalty, Grace Hawthorne & Allan L. Reiss (2015). Pictionary-based fMRI paradigm to study the neural correlates of spontaneous improvisation and figural creativity

 

2014

Kienitz, Quintin, Saggar, Bott, Royalty, Hong, Liu, Chien, Hawthorne, Reiss (2014). Thinking Skills & Creativity. 2014. Targeted intervention to increase creative capacity and performance: A randomized controlled pilot study

Manish Saggar, Grace Hawthorne, Eve-Marie Quintin, Eliza Kienitz, Nicholas T. Bott, Daniel HongYin-Hsuan Chien, Ning Liu, Adam Royalty, and Allan L. Reiss (2014). Developing Novel Methods to Assess Long-Term Sustainability of Creative Capacity Building and Applied Creativityce

 

2013

von Thienen, J. P. A. (2013). Kausalniveaus. Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers.

Rahman, S. S. (2013). The neuroscience of musical creativity using complexity tools [dissertation]. Imperial Collage, London.

Martin Steinert & Kathryn W. Jablokow (2013). Triangulating front end engineering design activities with physiology data and psychological preferences. 

 

2012

von Thienen, J. P. A., Noweski, C., Rauth, I., Meinel, C., & Lang, S. (2012). If you want to know who you are, tell me where you are: The importance of places. In H. Plattner, C. Meinel, & L. Leifer (Eds.), Design thinking research: Studying co-creation in practice (pp. 53–73). Heidelberg: Springer.

 

2011

Jung. M. (2011). Engineering team performance and emotion: Affective interaction dynamics as indicators of design team performance

 

 

 

 

Classics in Design Thinking

Arnold, J. E. (1959/2016). Creative engineering. In W. J. Clancey (Ed.), Creative engineering: Promoting innovation by thinking differently (pp. 59–150). Stanford Digital Repository. purl.stanford.edu/jb100vs5745 (Original manuscript 1959).

McKim, R. H. (1972). Experiences in visual thinking. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing.

Adams, J. L. (1974). Conceptual blockbusting. Stanford, CA: Stanford Alumni Association.

Faste, R. (1994). Ambidextrous thinking. In Innovations in mechanical engineering curricula for the 1990s. New York: American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Available at http://www.fastefoundation.org/publications/ambidextrous_thinking.pdf

Plattner, H., Meinel, C., & Weinberg, U. (2009). Design thinking. Innovation lernen. Ideenwelten öffnen. München: Mi-Wirtschaftsbuch.

Kelley, T., & Kelley, D. (2013). Creative confidence. New York: Crown Publishing.

Roth, B. (2015). The achievement habit. New York: Harper Collins.

 

 

 

 

 

Recorded talks

2018

Julia von Thienen (HPI): Design thinking, the body and creativity

 

2019

Julia von Thienen (HPI): Introduction to neurodesign

Caroline Szymanski (Max Planck Institute for Human Development & D-School): Social neuroscience & teamwork

Caroline Szymanski: Interbrain-synchrony during collaboration

Chris Chafe (Director of the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, Stanford University): Sonification of brain data for seizure detection

Marwa El Zein (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London):Shared responsibility in collective decisions

Jan Auernhammer (Executive Director of the Leifer Neurodesign Research Program, Stanford University): Psychology of Design: Evolution of the intersection of two inseparable fields

Sergio Agnoli (Marconi Insitute for Creativity, University of Bologna): Attentional mechanisms in the creative thinking process: Insights from psychophysiology

Laura Kaltwasser (Berlin School of Mind and Brain, HU Berlin): We feel therefore we are? About emotions and cooperation

Mathias Benedek (University of Graz): Creativity and cognitive control

Julia von Thienen (HPI) & Joaquín Santuber (HPI): Normative aspects in creativity, collaboration and culture development

 

2020

Julia Rodríguez (Biological Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, FU Berlin): Examining social influences on brain and behavior across development

Irene Plank (Berlin School of Mind and Brain, HU Berlin): The neuroscience of empathy

Shama Rahman (HPI):  Introduction to  NeuroDesign plus 'AI & Neuroscience of Creativity’

Shama Rahman (HPI): Brain data and creative engineering – dynamics and patterns

Melisa Leñero (Global Innovation Design): Designing with neuroscience and emerging tech

Oliver Gingrich (Media and Arts Practice, Bournemouth University): Interdisciplinary science-media art as participatory practice and social impact

Bert Arnrich (HPI): Working with wearable technology and signal processing [resource available internally only]

Yannick Roy (Co-Founder of NeuroTechX): Brain-computer/human-interfaces (BCI/HCI); analysis and design: past, present and future

Nick Rothwell (software architect and visual artist, Ravensbourne University): Artifice & intelligence: processes, systems, emergence and autonomy in digital arts practice

 

2021

John Collins (UK Digital Catapult Machine Intelligence Ethics Advisory Board): Ethics and AI

Marcus du Sautoy (Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford): Creativity code

Manish Saggar (Director of the Brain Dynamics Lab, Stanford University): Characterizing cognitive states associated with creative thinking using network neuroscience and topological data analysis

Tania Singer (Head of the Social Neuroscience Lab of the Max Planck Society in Berlin): A social neuroscience perspective on how to train mind and heart [resource available internally only]

John Gero (Professor in Computer Science and Architecture at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte) Some recent research in design neurocognition [resource available internally only]