BIOSCRABBLE – THE ROLE OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF SEARCH TERMS WHEN SEARCHING FOR BIOLOGICAL INSPIRATION IN BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH ARTICLES

Against the background of solution search in bio-inspired design, a closer look at the types of search terms which result, e.g., in a crab claw-inspired knife is taken here. A study is carried out to examine the effectiveness and efficiency of the search term categories “function”, “property” and “environment” for searching for useful biological information for solving technical problems in biological research articles. There are indications that the effectiveness of the categories depends on the technical problem addressed. For the efficiency, differences were observed between the categories.