The act and activities of invention: an autobiographical phenomenological case study of a visualizing inventor

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dc.contributor.authorLush, Craig L.en
dc.contributor.committeechairBoucouvalas, Marcieen
dc.contributor.committeememberCline, Marvin Geralden
dc.contributor.committeememberMcKeen, Ronald L.en
dc.contributor.committeememberStubblefield, Harold W.en
dc.contributor.committeememberWarren, Robert A.en
dc.contributor.departmentAdult and Continuing Educationen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T21:22:43Zen
dc.date.adate2006-11-08en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T21:22:43Zen
dc.date.issued1995-12-07en
dc.date.rdate2006-11-08en
dc.date.sdate2006-11-08en
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this research was to further my understanding of the inventive experience by capturing the perceptible thoughts, feelings, emotions, and actions that occur during the development of a Patentable Invention. The author, subject of the study, is an experienced inventor with numerous Patents issued and pending. The invention produced during this research was a mechanical device comprised of approximately seventy parts. Documentation of the product was through a formal Application for a U.S. Patent, filed pro se, and accompanied by nine pages of formal drawings also generated by the Researcher/Subject. The qualitative research process employed a phenomenological framework and included a variety of established data collection techniques, many of which had not previously been applied to the study of invention. Guided by the question of better understanding the experience of invention and its meaning, data were collected in written, verbal, and drawn form. An emphasis on real-time data collection avoided many of the pitfalls of autobiographical and retrospective verbal techniques. Over one hundred pages of transcribed data and over 400 developmental drawings were produced and analyzed. In addition to the traditional qualitative data analysis processes, the researcher developed a variety of data organization, coding, and analysis techniques providing quantitative insight into graphical data.en
dc.description.degreePh. D.en
dc.format.extentxiii, 385 leavesen
dc.format.mediumBTDen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.otheretd-11082006-133630en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-11082006-133630/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/40288en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartLD5655.V856_1995.L874.pdfen
dc.relation.isformatofOCLC# 35020474en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectcreative thoughten
dc.subject.lccLD5655.V856 1995.L874en
dc.titleThe act and activities of invention: an autobiographical phenomenological case study of a visualizing inventoren
dc.typeDissertationen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
thesis.degree.disciplineAdult and Continuing Educationen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.leveldoctoralen
thesis.degree.namePh. D.en

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