Examining Creativity with IT in Engineering Design (X-CITED)

利用 IT 检验工程设计中的创造力 (X-CITED)

• 批准号: 0757540
• 负责人: Aditya Johri
• 金额: $ 19.36万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-08-01 至 2011-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0757540&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Examining; Creativity; Engineering; Design; CITED

This project examines creativity in a series of activities involving the use of IT in a freshmen engineering course sequence spread across two semesters. The technology we will focus on primarily is pen-based direct input computers or Tablet PCs. The fundamental idea behind this study is to understand how students engage in creativity within the constraints of engineering design activities (EDA). EDAs are bound by design guidelines and limitations of space, time, material resources, and use of specific technologies, forcing students to be inventive and creative in accomplishing their goals, whether with artifacts or with people. The study will consider how students ?make do? and what role does technology play, and how creative practices develop over time. The project uses a longitudinal study comprising of an ethnographic field study component and laboratory based studies of interaction, spread over 18 months. Rather than relying solely on pre-designed instruments that measure creativity, the project assesses creativity contextually to try and understand the full spectrum of creative practices. In addition to serving as data, the video records collected during the study will also serve as the basis for building a digital video case library to teach creativity to undergraduate and graduate students.

这个项目探讨了一系列活动中的创造力，涉及到在一个新生工程课程序列跨越两个学期的使用IT。我们将主要关注的技术是基于笔的直接输入计算机或平板电脑。这项研究背后的基本思想是了解学生如何在工程设计活动（EDA）的约束下进行创造性。EDA受空间，时间，物质资源和特定技术的使用的设计准则和限制的约束，迫使学生在实现他们的目标时具有创造性和创造性，无论是与人工制品还是与人。研究会考虑怎样的学生？凑合一下科技扮演什么样的角色，以及创造性的实践如何随着时间的推移而发展。 该项目采用了一项纵向研究，包括人种学实地研究部分和基于实验室的互动研究，为期18个月。 该项目不是仅仅依靠预先设计的衡量创造力的工具，而是根据上下文评估创造力，以尝试和理解创造性实践的全方位。除了作为数据，研究期间收集的视频记录还将作为建立数字视频案例库的基础，向本科生和研究生教授创造力。