Problem Solving with The Incredible Machine*
An Experiment in Case-Based Reasoning

Mebmet H. Gker, M.Sc.Eng., M.Sc.	Prof. Dr.-Ing. Herbert Birkhofer
Technische Hochschule Darmstadt
Maschinenelemente und Konstruktionslehre
Magdalenenstr. 4, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany
{goker, birkhofer}@muk.maschinenbau.th-darmstadt.de

1 Motivation and Goals
In order to analyze the development, influence and application of experience during
problem solving and to draw conclusions for the development of Case-Based
Reasoning systems [Ko93, RiSch89] we observed and videotaped test persons while
they were solving simple design problems with the computer program The
Incredible Machine*. The video and audio recordings were protocolled and analyzed.

6 Literature
GBi95 M.Gker, H.Birkhofer, Problemlsen mit The Incredible Machine, Ein
Experiment zum Falbasierten Schlieen, in Proceedings, Case-Based
Reasoning Workshop at the 3rd. German Expert Systems Conference,
Kaiserslautern 28.2-1.3.1995, B.Bartsch-Sprl, D. Janetzko, S.Wess eds.,
Lemende Systeme und Anwendungen, Fachbereich Informatik,
Universitt Kaiserslautern LSA-95-02.

Ko93 J.Kolodner, ,,Case Based Reasoning, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc,
San Mateo, 1993

RiSch89	C.Riesbeck, R. Schank, Inside Case-based Reasoning, Lawrence
Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, Hillsdale 1989
