TRIZ-box–Improving creativity by connecting TRIZ and artifacts

The contribution proposes the application of artifacts for stimulation of analogy forming. These artifacts are related to the inventive principles of the TRIZ method. By formulating a contradiction based on Altshuller's parameters, a list of promising inventive principles is generated. The TRIZ-Box contains artifacts that represent these inventive principles physically. Access to the artifacts is provided by a web-based content management system (wiki), in which artifacts and related information can be searched and described.