Characterizing the EEG features of inspiring designers with functional terms

Abstract

This paper constructed an inspiring database containing functional terms, which was taken as the source of external stimuli provided to designers. We obtained EEG of two groups of designers based on design experiment. One group is provided with closely related functional terms, while another group is provided without stimuli. After processing these EEG, we found that there are different characteristics in the EEG for the two groups of designers. Our experimental results provide a basis for the study of design thinking using EEG.