Clinical- experimental analysis of design problem solving

John M. Carroll; John C. Thomas; Ashok Malhotra

doi:10.1016/0142-694X(79)90004-8

Clinical- experimental analysis of design problem solving

John M. Carroll, John C. Thomas, Ashok Malhotra

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Two studies of desgin problem solving are'reported. Experiment 1 presents an observational study of an actual client-designer worksession. Analysis of the session transcript reveals a systematically structured interaction. The client and the designer decompose the overall design problem into subproblems, each of which is smaller and somewhat more well structured that the overall problem. Experiment 2 is a laboratory study. The 'client' role is simulated by an instruction booklet; subjects play the 'designer' role. Again, it is found that subjects spontaneously structure the elements of a design problem into subproblems the nature of which is systematically related to aspects of problem structure. There is high intersubject agreement as to how the decomposition into subproblems should proceed.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	84-92
Number of pages	9
Journal	Design Studies
Volume	1
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0142-694X(79)90004-8
State	Published - Oct 1979

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Architecture
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
General Engineering
General Social Sciences
Computer Science Applications
Artificial Intelligence

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