Vargas Hernandez, N., & Schmidt, L. C., & Okudan Kremer, G. E. (2012, June), Experimental Assessment of TRIZ Effectiveness in Idea Generation  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas. 10.18260/1-2--21369

\bibitem{asee_peer_21369}
  Vargas Hernandez, N., \& Schmidt, L. C., \& Okudan Kremer, G. E. (2012, June), \emph{Experimental Assessment of TRIZ Effectiveness in Idea Generation}
  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas.
  10.18260/1-2--21369

Noe Vargas Hernandez, Linda C. Schmidt, and Gül E. Okudan Kremer.  "Experimental Assessment of TRIZ Effectiveness in Idea Generation".  2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2012.  https://peer.asee.org/21369 Internet.  14 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_21369}
  Noe Vargas Hernandez, Linda C. Schmidt, and Gül E. Okudan Kremer.
  "Experimental Assessment of TRIZ Effectiveness in Idea Generation".
  \emph{2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2012.
  https://peer.asee.org/21369 Internet.  14 Dec, 2024

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  -          Experimental Assessment of TRIZ Effectiveness in Idea GenerationTRIZ is an idea generation method that identifies conflicting principles in a given problem andthen searches for previous solutions that have solved similar conflicts. How effective is TRIZ?This is an important question since it is conducive to a second question: what makes TRIZ(more, or less) effective? Understanding this provides the opportunity to improve the teaching ofTRIZ, a more efficient use, and even the possibility of improving the method itself. In this paperwe present results from experiments comparing TRIZ against control groups; the experimentswere conducted simultaneously at three institutions: UTEP, Penn State, and University ofMaryland. Besides contrasting results at different institutions, the variety of experiments allowsus to contrast participants at the graduate and the undergraduate level (all of them engineeringstudents), contrasting two different design problems, and collaborative vs. individual TRIZprocesses. In order to have significant results, we followed a rigorous experimental procedure forwhich a set of guidelines were produced. Such experimental guidelines address (1) Design ofExperiment, (2) Execution of the Experiment, and (3) Assessment of Results. With respect toassessment, we used traditional outcome-based metrics (quantity, quality, novelty and variety)and adapt and improve them to solve some of their issues at the conceptual (definitions) andimplementation (operationalization) levels.Our experimental results indicate that TRIZ improves some of the metrics while worsening someother. This implies that some ideation methods are better for some tasks, depending on theoutcome sought. In general, the ideation method is a complex process, even underexperimentally controlled settings; this indicates that the ideation method outcome is dependenton the involved variables: subject, design task, design method, and other environmentalvariables. It then would make sense to qualify our results with these variables; further, therecommendation of a particular idea generation method should be based on the informationprovided on these variables.
AU  - Noe Vargas Hernandez
AU  - Linda C. Schmidt
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