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Goel's group has been using our BID class at GA Tech to help us  develop methodology and pedagogy for effective education in BID, and also to look at the cognitive aspects of BID (obviously related). We have a number of papers out on this subject in the past several years, some of which I list below. Feel free to contact us if you need access to them.

(we didn't quite manage to exhaust Julian's nearly boundless energy, but we came close!)

cheers

Marc Weissburg

Yen, J. M. Weissburg, M. Helms and A. Goel. Biologically-Inspired Design: A tool for interdisciplinary education. In, Y. Bar-Cohen, Biomimetics Vol 2. Taylor and Francis. (In press)

Goel, A.K. B. Bras, M. Helms, S. Rugaber, C. Tovey, S. Vattam, M. Weissburg, B. Wiltgen & J. Yen. Design 2011. Patterns and Cross-Domain Analogies in Biologically Inspired Sustainable Design. In Proc. AAAI Spring Symposium on AI and Sustainable Design, Stanford University, Palo Alto, March 2011, pp. 45-51.

Helms, M, S. Vattam, A. Goel, J. Yen and M. Weissburg. 2008. Problem driven and solution based design: Twin processes of biologically-inspired design. Proc. 28th Ann. Conf. ACADIA, p 94-101

Vattam, S., Helms, M., Goel, A., Yen, A. and M. Weissburg. 2008. Learning about and through biologically inspired design. In Proc. Second Design Creativity Workshop, Atlanta

Helms, Michael, Swaroop Vattam & Ashok Goel. Compound Analogies, or How to Make a Surfboard
Disappear. To appear in Proc. Thirthieth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Washington
DC, July 2008.





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Date:    Thu, 24 Mar 2011 09:25:29 +0000
From:    Julian Vincent <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Travels

Just got back from a short trip in the USA.  This involved two days at Georgia Tech (thanx to Jeannette Yen, of whom it has been said . . .) and a 1-day NSF workshop at Palo Alto.  The main topic of discussion at the workshop was use of computing in bio-inspired design, though the range was wider.  Of general interest is the newly-made-public system DANE, an interactive knowledge-base of biological information for designers.  It's available on  <http://dilab.cc.gatech.edu/dane/>.  There are tutorials and explanations on the web site.  At present it's open for inspection only, but it can still give lots of ideas.  The main driver behind this is Ashok Goel whose main interest is in cognition.  However he sees biomimetics as an interesting and important driver, mainly because it is transdisciplinary and so offers interesting problems.

Julian Vincent

PS It's not too late to submit an abstract for the bionic engineering conference in Boston this September.  The deadline for submission has just been extended by a couple of weeks.  More details on  www.bionicengineeringconference.com

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Date:    Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:11:04 +0000
From:    Ventrell Williams <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Travels

Julian,

Great to hear of your travels to the US and even better to hear that you made it back safely.

Are there any articles/information (whitepapers and the like) that you can share from your visits? I'm always interested in "light" reading...

Cheers
Ventrell
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Subject: Travels

Just got back from a short trip in the USA.  This involved two days at Georgia Tech (thanx to Jeannette Yen, of whom it has been said . . .) and a 1-day NSF workshop at Palo Alto.  The main topic of discussion at the workshop was use of computing in bio-inspired design, though the range was wider.  Of general interest is the newly-made-public system DANE, an interactive knowledge-base of biological information for designers.  It's available on  <http://dilab.cc.gatech.edu/dane/>.  There are tutorials and explanations on the web site.  At present it's open for inspection only, but it can still give lots of ideas.  The main driver behind this is Ashok Goel whose main interest is in cognition.  However he sees biomimetics as an interesting and important driver, mainly because it is transdisciplinary and so offers interesting problems.

Julian Vincent

PS It's not too late to submit an abstract for the bionic engineering conference in Boston this September.  The deadline for submission has just been extended by a couple of weeks.  More details on  www.bionicengineeringconference.com

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