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Assessment of structuredness of problems in design

Sanjay Singh, Amaresh Chakrabarti

Type:
Papers
DS 129: Proceedings of the DESIGN2024 18th International Design Conference
Year:
2024
Editor:
Mario Štorga, Stanko Škec, Tomislav Martinec, Dorian Marjanović, Neven Pavković, Marija Majda Škec
Author:
Sanjay Singh, Amaresh Chakrabarti
Series:
DESIGN
Institution:
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Section:
Human Behaviour and Design Creativity
Page(s):
1085-1094
DOI number:
10.1017/pds.2024.111
ISSN:
2732-527X (Online)
Abstract:
Design problems are wicked in nature. Wicked problems are difficult to understand, formulate and solve. The literature focuses mainly on the characteristics of wicked problems, very little is available to how wicked problems (synonymous to ill-structured) should be formulated to make them well structured. Assessment of wickedness can help designers formulate problems into well-structured. This work proposes a metric for (lack of) structuredness as a measure for the degree to which a design problem is ill-structured. A Delphi-based method as benchmark for validating the metric is also proposed.
Keywords:
design process, problem solving, wickedness, ill-structured, structuredness
18th International Design Conference (DESIGN 2024)
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