Towards an approach for computationally assisted creation of insight problems in the practical object domain

Abstract

Insight problems are creative solving problems used to assesscreativity in human participants, and empirically study insight-relatedprocesses. However, not many such problems exist, and once a partici-pant has been exposed to a particular problem, insight cannot be studiedanymore in that context. This paper proposes an approach for creatingmore insight problems in the practical object uses domain. This approachuses cognitive understanding of some of the processes that take part inthe solving of insight problems in this domain to create more such prob-lems, and is amenable to computational implementation. The manualcreation of a couple of such problems with this approach is described.Ways of making the approach computational are briefly discussed.