The Effect of Prototyping and Critical Feedback on Fixation in Engineering Design

Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 807-812

  Kershaw, Trina C ^a   Hölttä Otto, Katja ^b   Lee, Yoon Soo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

^b University of Massachusetts Dartmouth   (United States)

Author keywords

education; engineering; feedback; fixation; metacognition; prototyping

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

DESIGN FIXATIONS; DESIGN-PROCESS; EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTION; ENGINEERING DESIGN; ENGINEERING DESIGN EDUCATION; FIXATION; METACOGNITION; PROTOTYPING;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 85139521375     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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