Models of Discovery, Invention and Design

Peter Cheng      
Email: p.c.h.cheng@sussex.ac.uk
Room: Chichister 101
Ext.: 3652
Office hour: Friday 11:00-12:00.   

2007 Classes:
Lecture: 9:00-10:00
Russell 22
Seminar:  10:00-11:00 Russell 22

Course outline (2007), readling list, information about assessment and case study (pdf)

Course schedule (pdf)

Reading list

Lecture slides

Week 1 (pdf)  Introduction and Problem Solving

Supplementrary readings on problem solving

Week 2 and 3 (pdf)  Models of Discovery

Galileo Case study (12 MB pdf)  Galileo Case study (no images) (0.1 MB pdf) 

Week 4 (pdf) Complex Systems

Week 5 (pdf) Invention and Design

Week 6 (pdf) Frameworks

Week 7 (pdf) Evolutionary Models & Conceptual Change


Week 8 (pdf) Experiment

Week 9 (pdf) Acceptability


Week 10 (pdf)  Creativity and Cognitivie/Social Factors




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