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Research data supporting "Cambridge study: the influence of instructions"


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Authors

Vasconcelos, Luis A.  ORCID logo  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3023-0221
Chen, Chih-Chun 
Taysom, Eloise 
Crilly, Nathan 

Description

This is a comma-separated values file type (.csv) containing the evaluation for all ideas generated by all participants in the experiment. This file type allows data to be saved in a table structured format. In the table, the column headings are self-explanatory, provided you also have the corresponding publication (To copy or not to copy: the influence of instructions in design inspiration and fixation experiments) as a reference. The data was collected in January 2015 from 168 undergraduate students in engineering at the University of Cambridge, UK. Participation in the experiment was part of the students’ education, and was aimed at collecting data that could later be used to introduce them to the concept of design fixation. No demographic data was collected from the participants, but as first year undergraduate students they were broadly similar in age and design experience, drawn from a cohort with a male-female ratio of 3:1. No consent form was required for this experiment.


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Comma-separated values file (.csv). It can be used with any spreadsheet program, such as Microsoft Excel, Open Office Calc, or Google Spreadsheets.

Keywords

Design fixation, inspiration, instructions, features, experiment

Publisher

University of Cambridge
Sponsorship
This work was supported by the EPSRC [grant number EP/K008196/1] and the CAPES Foundation [grant number BEX 11468/13-0].