Dear Terry,
Thanks for these references. I particularly liked the following from the Gero article (see link below):
"Fixation in the traditional sense may well be found where designers are
forced to rely on everyday knowledge. Mechanical engineers become
fixated in the traditional sense when the example they are shown embodies
typical principles which are characteristic of the knowledge base of the
discipline. ..... Industrial designers appear to show no evidence of fixation
under any of the experimental conditions we have employed. However,
while showing no evidence of "traditional" fixation, the industrial
designers showed no evidence of producing innovative designs using the
principle involved in the innovative example. In a sense these groups may
have become "fixated" on being different. "Fixation" therefore appears to
possibly exist in a number of forms and we as researchers need to be wary
of becoming fixated on our conception of what fixation is." (Purcell and
Gero 1996)
Keith
On 25 Apr 2014, at 9:43 pm, "Terence Love" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
An example of this kind of meta-abstraction in another realm is how we might start to understand that individuals educated under particular systems will tend to exhibit visually-based fixation in their creative idea generation (see, for example, Gero https://docs.google.com/document/preview?hgd=1&id=1QbFQzvbBbV9U4W5dIk75ty6B4mJHQR1q0CPkkamzjfc
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