Dissertation Proposal: Empathy Expression and Development in Industrial Design

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DISSERTATION PROPOSAL Andres Tellez Committee: Meredith Davis Tsai Lu Liu Sharon Joines Amy Halberstadt Dec. 16, 2014


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Table of Content

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Research Question

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Conceptual Framework

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Literature Review

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Research Design


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Research Question

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How do the practices and circumstances in the industrial design studio foster the development of empathy of students for users?

rQ1

How does faculty undertake human-centered issues in the design studio?

rQ2

How do the strategies, methods, and techniques implemented in the studio lead (or not lead) the students to take the perspective of the users?

rQ3

How do the definition of the problem contribute to the students’ consideration of the users’ concerns?

rQ4

How do the students’ expressions of empathy for the user change throughout the design project?


RQ

CF

Conceptual Framework

LR

RD

Human-Centered Design Studio Pedagogy Curricula Instruction

educates

Designer

involves

fosters

acquires

engages in researches ideates prototypes creates tests

Empathy Perspective-Taking Empathic Concern Interpersonal Accuracy develops

Situated Design Project produces

Design Solutions

for

informs participates collaborates tests adopts utilizes

User


RQ

CF

LR

Literature Review

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Human-Centered Design Studio Pedagogy Curricula Instruction

Designer

EMPATHY Davis Howe Gerdes Batson Konrath Hogan

Mehrabian & Epstein BaronCohen Thomas

DESIGN EDUCATION Crawford Wiggins & McTighe Dutton Schunk Ward Shulman

Salama Lave & Wenger Kuhn Rogoff Cross

Empathy Perspective-Taking Empathic Concern Interpersonal Accuracy

Situated Design Project Design Solutions

DESIGN PRACTICE Rittel & Webber Goldman d.School Plattner Carroll Brown IDEO

User

METHODOLOGY Creswell Maxwell Lincoln Guba

Groat & Wang Charmaz Austerlitz Strauss

HUMAN-CENTERED Krippendorff Sanders Kouprie Mattelm채ki & Battarbee Steen Oktay Postma Koskinen Fischer Suri ISO


RQ

CF

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Literature Review

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EMPATHY

DESIGN PRACTICE

DESIGN EDUCATION

HUMAN-CENTERED

METHODOLOGY Font size is proportional to the number of citations of each author


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Literature Review

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EMPATHY

Howe

(2013, p. 13)

« [Empathy] consists of affective and cognitive responses, feeling what another person is feeling and understanding why that person feels as he or she does » « [Affective component is] an observer’s emotional response to the affective state of another »

Howe

(2013, p. 14)

« [Cognitive component is based on] seeing, imagining and thinking about a situation from the other person’s point of view »

BaronCohen

(2004, p. 164)


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CF

LR

Literature Review

RD

EMPATHY

Davis

(2006, p. 443)

« [Empathic episode is] an observer being exposed in some fashion to a target, after which some response on the part of the observer occurs » « Organizational Model of Empathy »

Davis

(2006, p. 444)

ANTECEDENTS The Person - Biological readiness - Personality - Learning history The Situation - Strenght of situation - Observer-Target similarity

PROCESSES

INTRA-PERSONAL OUTCOMES

Non-Cognitive - Primary circular reaction - Motor mimicry

Cognitive Outcomes - Interpersonal accuracy - Attributional judgements - Cognitive representations

Helping Behavior

Affective Outcomes - Parallel emotion - Reactive emotion - Empathic concern - Personal distress

Social Behavior

Simple Cognitive - Classical conditioning - Direct association - Labeling Advanced Cognitive - Language-mediated association - Elaborated cognitive networks - Perspective taking

Motivational Outcomes - Forgiveness - Valuing other’s outcomes

INTER-PERSONAL OUTCOMES

Reduced Aggresive Behaviors


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CF

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Literature Review

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HUMAN-CENTERED DESIGN

« Landscape of Human Centered Design » Led by Design

Sanders & Stappers

Critical Design

(2008, p. 6)

Generative Design Research

Probes

User as Subject

User-Centered Design

Usability testing

Participatory Design Research

Contextual inquiry

Human factors and Ergonomics

Lead-user innovation “Scandinavian” Applied ethnography

Led by Research

User as Partner

Generative Tools

Design and Emotion


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CF

LR

Literature Review

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HUMAN-CENTERED DESIGN

Co-creator

(2006, p. 3)

Adapter

Level of Involvement

Sanders

« Evolution of the labels used to refer to the people served through design »

Participant User Consumer Customer 1980’s

1990’s

2000’s

« [Empathy helps designers to move] beyond egocentric views of the world and no longer design based on their own needs, desires, experiences or preferences »

Plattner & Colleagues (2012, p. 164)


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CF

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Literature Review

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DESIGN EDUCATION

« [Signature pedagogies are] the characteristic forms of teaching and learning that (...) organize Shulman the fundamental ways in which future practitioners (2005, p. 52) are educated for their new professions » « [The design studio is] a contributor to signature pedagogies, because it helps to structure learning and teaching and prepares students for professional studio activities »

Sims & Shreeve (2012, p. 57)


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Literature Review

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DESIGN EDUCATION

Cross

(2006, p. 7)

« Design problems are ill-defined, ill-structured, or ‘wicked’ (...) They are not problems for which all the necessary information is, or ever can be, available to the problem-solver. They are therefore not susceptible to exhaustive analysis, and there can never be a guarantee that ‘correct’ solutions can be found for them. » « [ In apprenticeship, a learning model associated with design education] novices advance their skills and understanding through participation with more skilled partners in culturally organized activities »

Rogoff

(1990, p. 39)


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Research Design

Data Collection

Data Analysis

Pa ra

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Research Strategy Site and Participants

Naturalistic Paradigm

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Data Collection

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Grounded Theory

Memoing

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Coding

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Participant Discourse Observation Analysis

Document Analysis

Empathy Semistructured Artifact Interviews Analysis Tests


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LR

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Research Design

Data Collection

Data Analysis

DATA COLLECTION

CODING

MEMOS

Research Strategy Site and Participants

BEFORE DESIGN STUDIO

DURING DESIGN STUDIO (ACADEMIC SEMESTER: 16 WEEKS)

AFTER DESIGN STUDIO

DATA COLLECTION

DATA ANALYSES

Semistructured Interviews

Document Analysis

Photography

Transcription

Statistical Analysis

Participant Observation

Artifact Analysis

Audio Recording

Coding

Memoing

Discourse Analysis

Empathy Tests

Note Taking

Categories Selection

Theoretical Memoing


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CF

LR

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Research Design Research Strategy

Site and Participants Data Collection

Data Analysis

FIRST YEAR DESIGN STUDIO

ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL DESIGN STUDIO

• Foundational design studio. • Undergraduate level (1st year). • Improvement of skills, methods, and knowledge of design practice. • Larger scope of context understanding.

• Advanced studies in industrial design. • Graduate level (Master). • Emphasis on problem identification, program formulation and application of advanced design methods (e.g. HCD).

Source: NCSU Design Flickr


RQ

CF

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Research Design Research Strategy

Research

Site and Participants

Data Collection

Ideation

Data Analysis

Prototyping and Testing

GROUP 1: Human-Centered Design Studio (ID Program) GROUP 2: Foundational Design Studio (ID Program)

1

2

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7 8 9 10 ACADEMIC SEMESTER (16 WEEKS)

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DATA COLLECTION Participant Observation

Semistructured Interviews

Document Analysis

Discourse Analysis

Artifact Analysis

Empathy Tests


RQ

CF

LR

RD

Research Design Research Strategy

Site and Participants

DATA COLLECTION

Data Collection

DATA ANALYSIS: CODING

Data Analysis DATA ANALYSIS: MEMOING

Artifact Analysis Photography Categories Selection

Participant Observation Note Taking Coding

Semistructured Interviews Audio Recording

Transcription Memoing

Discourse Analysis

Document Analysis

Empathy Tests

Theoretical Memoing

Statistical Analysis


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