We present a direction of research on principles and methods that can enable general problem solving via human computation systems. A key challenge in human computation is the effective and efficient coordination of problem solving. While simple tasks may be easy to partition across individuals, more complex tasks highlight challenges and opportunities for more sophisticated coordination and op...

This paper presents a semi-supervised machine-learning approach to predicting whether students will be successful in solving problem-solving tasks within narrative-centered learning environments. Results suggest the approach often outperforms standard supervised learning methods.

Most of computer science focuses on automatically solving given computational problems. I focus on automatically inventing or discovering problems in a way inspired by the playful behavior of animals and humans, to train a more and more general problem solver from scratch in an unsupervised fashion. Consider the infinite set of all computable descriptions of tasks with possibly computable solut...

Some time away from a problem, or incubation time, is found to be beneficial to creative problem solving. But are interruptions as equally helpful as breaks? An experiment was conducted to gain more insight into the differences between imposed and selfinitiated breaks, and their effects on creativity, specifically on impasses and insights. There were three experimental conditions, (a) a continu...

aesthetics relates to felt meaning generated from sensory perceptions, and involves subjective, tacit knowledge rooted in feeling and emotion. we believe the aesthetics of management is important, but little understood, aspect of organizational life. we propose that followers use their aesthetic senses in making these assessments. in this article we try to discover the role of aesthetic in man...

aim and background: this study seeks the effect of teaching problem solving on self-efficacy and perceived self-efficacy in adolescents.   methods and materials: in this quasi-experimental study using three group with pre-test and post-test, on hundred sixty students were randomly selected via multi-stage sampling, and were divided into 64 students of experimental group and 62 students of place...