Experimental Actions With Conceptual Objects

In the previous Chapter, we described the direction of decreasing the differences between interactions of a human with natural and computer environments. The basic feature of this direction is to create appropriate conditions for the real-time intertwining of both types of interactions in designer's activity. In this Chapter, we pay our attention to such kind of designer's activity as solving the project tasks at the conceptual stage of designing. We consider these tasks as a dynamic system described as a project theory of a substantially evolutionary type. Such position leads to useful inheritances from the scientific practice. The basic inheritances are the becoming of the theory of the project and applying the thought experiments. The becoming of the theory is coordinated with the use of the stepwise refinement (based on question-answer analysis) and design thinking in their applications to the solving the project tasks. Conceptual experiments are considered as means for verifying the theory constructs.