15 years of SPALTEN problem solving methodology in product development

Publikationstyp
Conference Paper
Date Issued
2016-08
Sprache
English
Author(s)
Albers, Albert  
Reiß, Nicolas  
Bursac, Nikola  
Breitschuh, Jan  
TORE-URI
http://hdl.handle.net/11420/13450
Volume
1
Citation
Proceedings of NordDesign (2016)
Contribution to Conference
12th Biennial Norddesign 2016 Conference, NordDesign 2016  
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-84995920209
Publisher
The Design Society
The brain has only limited ability to deal with complex Problems. Therefore, the developer must be supported to supplement his natural problem-solving behaviors. The SPALTEN-Methodology was described by Albers et al. and constantly developed further in the past 15 years. Furthermore, it was applied consistently in projects and education. SPALTEN is a German acronym and means "to split", "to decompose". In this contribution, the results of an extensive empirical study of the use of SPALTEN in the last 15 years is presented. The study consists of a qualitative preliminary study on basic of interviews (n=15) and a quantitative survey using a questionnaire (n=108) and has a focus on the application and the added value for the user. The results show, that SPALTEN is used in practice by over 80 % of former students and PhD-students, who learned the method in their education.
Subjects
Method
Methodology
Problem solving
SPALTEN
DDC Class
600: Technik