What do dinosaurs 🦖 and Nintendo Wii game controllers 🎮 have in common?
They are all products of exaptation, a process of repurposing products for functions other than their original purpose 💡.
And this is what inspired #NUSComputing’s Asst. Prof Lim Shi Ying and Emory University’s Chan Tian Heong to analyse 🔬 what members of the IKEA Hackers community are doing.
The results of their study have since been published in Management Science journal 📚 and prompted others to take a closer look at the problem-first approach.
👉🏻 Check out their story: https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/news/features/2023-ikea-hacks-lshiying/
#Exaptation #IKEA #IKEAHackers #Innovation #Tech #MeetOurFaculty #EmoryUniversity #WomeninTech #NUSComputing #NUSResearch #OutsideTheBox
They are all products of exaptation, a process of repurposing products for functions other than their original purpose 💡.
And this is what inspired #NUSComputing’s Asst. Prof Lim Shi Ying and Emory University’s Chan Tian Heong to analyse 🔬 what members of the IKEA Hackers community are doing.
The results of their study have since been published in Management Science journal 📚 and prompted others to take a closer look at the problem-first approach.
👉🏻 Check out their story: https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/news/features/2023-ikea-hacks-lshiying/
#Exaptation #IKEA #IKEAHackers #Innovation #Tech #MeetOurFaculty #EmoryUniversity #WomeninTech #NUSComputing #NUSResearch #OutsideTheBox