Blog 1
Lecture 4
Tools for CPS
CPS Activity 1
Last Class
- CPS Introduction
- Divergent thinking
- Convergent Thinking
- Any questions?
Today
- Tools
- Problem
- Fish bone diagram
- Creative Thinking
Brain-storming
Force-fitting (last)
Attribute Listing
SCAMPER
Morphological Matrix
Critical Thinking
Hit & hot spots
ALoU
PCA
Sequencing
Evaluation Matrix
CPS Activity #1
Exploratory Tools
Fish Bone Diagram
Cause-and-Effect Diagram
Developed in Japan (Ishikawa for Kawasaki Steel, 1950’s)
Effect is the fish head
Causes are the bones
- Based on 5 or 6 principal causes
Further subdivided
Fish-Bone or Cause-Effect Diagram
Obesity
Slip & Fall
Shade Variation in Dying
Pressure Ulcers
Brain Storming
- Pick each other’s brain
- Come up with a house that looks like a shoe?
Force-Fitting
- Create connections
Unrelated
Maybe living & non-living
Objects (Yi) Connection to X
Attribute Listing
- Attributes of a pencil?
- Shaft material
- Lead material
- Hardness of the lead
- Width of lead
- Quality
- Color
- Weight
- Price
- Practice on backpack
SCAMPER
- Story of ‘three little pigs’
- S = Substitute
• One of the three houses is made of glass
C = Combine
• The Big Bad Wolf is also chasing Little Red Riding Hood
A = Adapt
• Update the story to today: Two of the little pigs did not have home insurance
M = Modify
• The Wolf uses a bulldozer to push the pigs' houses over
P = Put to Other Uses
• The Wolf text messages the pigs to tell them he will blow their houses down
E = Eliminate
• The house made of sticks does not fall because of superb workmanship
R = Reverse
• The pigs terrorize the wolf
Practice SCAMPER for an interior space or clothing or store design
Source: http://seed-ut.org/index.php/example-tools
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Morphological Matrix
- A lamp
Cellphone??
Hits & Hotspots
- Create a costume using unconventional material
- Steps
- Each member lists ideas
- Others go around “hitting” ideas
- Colored weight (1 for yellow, 5 for orange)
- Identifying “hot spots”
- Talk about it
- Categorize
- A – for base material
- B – head gear etc..
ALoU
- Advantages, Limitation or Unique features
- Refine idea
- Listing A, L, U & discussing
- Earthship
Focusing when Developing Solutions
- Ranking or Prioritizing
- PCA
Sequencing
- Action
- Short-term (S)
- Medium (M)
- Long-term (L)
Evaluation Matrix
- What is the best option?
- Buy grandma a dog
| Options | $ | Quiet | Ease of care | Safety | Friendly | Total |
| Labrador | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 19 |
| Poodle | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 15 |
| Bulldog | 4 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 15 |
| Chihuahua | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 14 |
| Dalmatian | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 15 |
CPS Activity 1
- CPS Assignment Sheet
- Sample
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Next Week
- Tue
- Ch 2 CPS
- Thu
- Ch 1 WNM