Computer-Aided Problem Solving: A Dialogue-based Systemto Support the Analysis of Inventive Problems

The paper presents the research activity developed by the authors in the field of Computer-Aided Inventive Problem Solving: an original dialogue-based software application has been developed by integrating the logic of ARIZ with some OTSM-TRIZ models in order to guide an user also with no TRIZ education to the analysis of inventive problem. The proposed software system, even if still at a prototype stage, is radically different from any existing TRIZ-based software tool and it has been already tested both with students at university and with employees of a few Small and Medium Enterprises. The full presentation will detail the structure of the algorithm and the results of the first testing activities.