Design ideas and impasses: The role of open goals

Proceedings of ICED 2007, the 16th International Conference on Engineering Design

Volumn DS 42, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Moss, Jarrod ^a   Cagan, Jonathan ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Creativity; Insight; Open goals; Problem solving

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; CREATIVITY; DESIGN IDEAS; DESIGN PROBLEMS; DESIGN TASKS; INNOVATIVE DESIGN; INSIGHT; OPEN GOALS; UNSOLVED PROBLEMS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

DESIGN;

EID: 84862590691     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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