* student co-author
Refereed Journal PapersChan, J. & Nokes-Malach, T. J. (accepted). Situative creativity: Larger physical spaces facilitate thinking of novel uses for everyday objects. Journal of Problem Solving. [PDF]
Paletz, S., Chan, J., & Schunn, C. (accepted). Uncovering uncertainty through disagreement. Applied Cognitive Psychology. [PDF]
Chan, J., & Schunn, C. (2015). The importance of iteration in creative conceptual combination. Cognition, 145, 104-115. [PDF]
Chan, J., Dow, S. P., & Schunn, C. (2015). Do the best design ideas (really) come from conceptually distant sources of inspiration? Design Studies, 36, 31-58. [PDF]
Chan, J., & Schunn, C. (2015). The impact of analogies on creative concept generation: Lessons from an in vivo study in engineering design. Cognitive Science, 39, 126-155. [PDF]
Fu, K.*, Chan, J., Schunn, C., Cagan, J., & Kotovsky, K (2013). Expert representation of design repository space: A comparison to and validation of algorithmic output. Design Studies, 34, 729-762. [PDF]
Fu, K.*, Chan, J., Cagan, J., Kotovsky, K., Schunn, C., & Wood, K . (2013). The meaning of "near" and "far": The impact of structuring design databases and the effect of distance of analogy on design output. Journal of Mechanical Design, 135, 021007. [PDF]
Chan, J., Paletz, S., & Schunn, C. (2012). Analogy as a strategy for supporting complex problem solving under uncertainty. Memory and Cognition, 40, 1352-1365. [PDF]
Chan, J., Fu, K.*, Schunn, C., Cagan, J., Wood, K., & Kotovsky, K. (2011). On the benefits and pitfalls of analogies for innovative design: Ideation performance based on analogical distance, commonness, and modality of examples. Journal of Mechanical Design, 133, 081004. [PDF]
Refereed (Archival) Conference PapersChan, Dang, S. C., & Dow, S. P. (2016). Comparing different sensemaking approaches for large-scale ideation. Proceedings of 2016 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2016). [PDF]
Chan, Dang, S. C., & Dow, S. P. (2016). Improving crowd innovation with expert facilitation. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, 2016. [PDF]
Siangliulue, K, Chan, Gajos, K., & Dow, S. P. (2015). Providing timely examples improves the quantity and quality of generated ideas. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition, 2015. [PDF]
Chan, J., Schunn, C., & Dow, S. (2014). Overreliance on conceptually far sources decreases the creativity of ideas. Paper presented at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Quebec City, Canada. [PDF]
Paletz, S. B. F., Chan, J., & Schunn, C. (2014, July). Making conflicts work: Team success moderates the relationship between micro-conflicts and uncertainty. Paper to be presented at the Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research (INGRoup) Conference, Raleigh, NC.
Chan, J., Dow, S., & Schunn, C. (2014). Conceptual distance matters when building on others' ideas in crowd-collaborative innovation platforms. Extended abstract presented at the 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, Baltimore, MD. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2556420.2556500. [PDF][Poster]
Fu, K.*, Chan, J., Schunn, C., Cagan, J., & Kotovsky, K. (2013). Testing the basis for an automated design-by-analogy tool through comparison to expert thinking. Paper presented at the 25th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology (DTM), Portland, OR.
Luo, W,* Litman, D., & Chan, J. (2013). Reducing annotation effort on unbalanced corpus based on cost matrix. Paper presented at the 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT 2013) Student Research Workshop, Atlanta, GA. [PDF]
Fu, K.*, Chan, J., Cagan, J., Kotovsky, K., Schunn, C., & Wood, K . (2012). The meaning of "near" and "far": The impact of structuring design databases and the effect of distance of analogy on design output. Paper presented at the 24th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology (DTM), Chicago, IL. **Best Paper Award**
Chan, J., Fu, K.*, Schunn, C., Cagan, J., Wood, K., & Kotovsky, K. (2011). On the effective use of design-by-analogy: The influences of analogical distance and commonness of analogous designs on ideation performance. Paper presented at the International Conference on Engineering Design, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Conference Presentations and DemosChan, J., Dang, S. C., & Dow, S. P. (2016). IdeaGens: Enabling expert facilitation of crowd brainstorming. Demo and extended abstract to be presented at the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2016).
Siangliuliue, P., Chan, J., Huber, B., Dow, S. P., & Gajos, K. Z. (2016). IdeaHound: Self-sustainable idea generation in creative online communities. Demo and extended abstract to be presented at the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2016).
Chan, J., Dang, S., Kremer, P., Guo, L., & Dow, S. (2014). IdeaGens: A social ideation system for guided crowd brainstorming. Demo presented at the 2nd AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, Pittsburgh, PA. [PDF]
Chan, J. & Nokes-Malach, T. (2014). The impact of physical spaces on divergent and convergent problem-solving performance. Poster presented at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Quebec City, Canada. [Poster]
Chan, J., & Schunn, C. (2013). Near rather than far analogical sources leads to success in a design competition. Poster presented at the Psychonomic Society annual meeting, Toronto, Canada.
Chan, J., & Schunn, C. (2012). Re-examining the impact of analogies on creative ideation search patterns in engineering design. Talk presented at the 4th Biennial Conference of the International Society for the Psychology of Science and Technology (ISPST), Pittsburgh, PA.
Chan, J., Fu, K.*, Schunn, C., Wood, K., Cagan, J., & Kotovsky, K. (2010). What makes for inspirational examples in design? The effects of example modality, distance, and familiarity. Poster presented at the Cognitive Science Society annual meeting, Portland, OR.
Chan, J., & Hagaman, J. A. (2009). The role of visual imagery in deductive relational reasoning. Poster presented at the Psychonomic Society annual meeting, Boston, MA.
In ProgressChan, J., Siangliulue, K., Gajos, K. Z., & Dow, S. P. (in preparation). Personalized inspiration for creative ideation: Interactions between cognitive state and example semantic distance.
Siangliulue, K., Chan, J., Gajos, K. Z., & Dow, S. P. (in preparation). Real-time sensemaking for ideation through organic human computation.
Chan, J., Yu, L., Kittur, N., & Dow, S. P. (in preparation). Mining analogies with crowds and computation.
Wang, Y.*, Chan, J., Lovell, M., & Schunn, C. (in preparation). An in vivo investigation of the importance of different solution search patterns for innovative design outcomes.
Goncher, A.*, Chan, J., Schunn, C., & Lovell, M. (in revision). A robust and efficient function-focused measure of design innovation for design process-outcome studies.
Paletz, S., Chan, J., & Schunn, C. (under review). Making conflicts work: Team success moderates the relationship between micro-conflicts and uncertainty.