{"pk":31380,"title":"Comparison of Well-Structured & Ill-Structured Task Environments and Problem Spaces","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Many of our results in the problem-solving literature are fh)m puzzle-game domains. Intuitively, most of us feel that there are differences between puzzle problems and open-ended, real-world problems. There has been some attempt to capture these differences in the vocabulary of \"ill-structured\" and \"well-structured\" prooblems. However, there seem to be no empirical studies directed at this distinction. This paper examines and compares the task environments and problem spaces of a prototypical well-structured problem (cryptarithmetic) with the task environments and problem spaces of a class of prototypical illstructured problems (design problems). Results indicate substantive differences, both in the task environments and the problem spaces.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Posters","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0t13m2fv","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Vinod","middle_name":"","last_name":"Goel","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Berkeley","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1992-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/31380/galley/22449/download/"}]}