Burrito Making Device

A food-service design brief about automating burrito production for a large tailgate party.

See Text Problem Catalog for the text family index.

Quick Facts

Field	Value
Problem ID	ideation_burrito_making_device
Problem Family	text
Implementation	TextProblem
Capabilities	citation-backed, prompt-packet, statement-markdown
Study Suitability	human-subjects-ready, ideation-friendly
Tags	text, human-subjects, ideation, food, automation, service

Taxonomy

Formulation

textual_prompt

Is Dynamic

no

Orientation

engineering_practical

Objective Mode

qualitative

Constraint Nature

embedded-constraints

Tags

text, human-subjects, ideation, food, automation, service

Deliverable Type

concepts

Timebox Hint (Minutes)

15

Participants

individual

Evaluation Mode

idea_generation

Statement

The Mechanical Engineering Department is hosting a tailgate party and has invited alumni. The department wishes to feed burritos to a party of 100 during the half time. The task for manually making the burritos for these many people is laborious. Thus the goal is to design a burrito making device for the department.

Prompt Profile

Field	Value
Deliverable Type	concepts
Timebox Hint (Minutes)	15
Participants	individual
Evaluation Mode	idea_generation

Sources

Key	Summary
joshi_summers_2014	Joshi and Summers (2014). Impact of Requirements Elicitation Activity on Idea Generation: A Designer Study.

Raw Citation Records

Joshi and Summers (2014). Impact of Requirements Elicitation Activity on Idea Generation: A Designer Study.