Research Initiation: Enhancing the Learning Outcomes of Empathic Innovation in Longevity Engineering

研究启动：增强长寿工程共情创新的学习成果

• 批准号: 1738214
• 负责人: Nan Kong
• 金额: $ 19.98万
• 依托单位: Purdue University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-11-01 至 2020-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1738214&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Research; Initiation; Enhancing; Learning; Outcomes

With a rapidly aging US population, smart healthcare technologies are critical to the well-being and quality of care among the elderly and disabled. Unfortunately, there are well-documented challenges in equipping students with the technical and professional competencies for developing user-centered solutions during the engineering innovation process. This project aims at initiating boundary-spanning research for enhancing empathic innovation abilities, which will support user-centeredness during the engineering design process. In this project, the research team will examine how undergraduate engineering students learn empathic innovation over time and how this learning is affected by the nature of community-based learning projects and curricula. The results will provide insights into effective teaching of empathic innovation at the undergraduate level. Guided by the research findings, teaching and learning techniques can be better designed to help students thrive and gain valuable STEM knowledge and skills. Through knowledge dissemination and community outreach, this research will impact multiple stakeholders and institutions. Ultimately, this research will help successfully prepare students for careers in an ever-evolving healthcare industry, which demands a workforce from one eighth of the U.S population, consumes nearly one fifth of the U.S. gross domestic product, and spends about $2.7 trillion annually. Specific research questions for this project are (1) how do undergraduate engineering students' empathic design tendencies and abilities evolve during an engineering design project; and (2) to what extent, do undergraduate engineering students' empathic designs relate to their engineering innovation on various user-centered smart health engineering design projects. For this research study, the research team will apply a mixed-methods approach. The quantitative measures include individual empathic tendencies, innovative tendencies, empathic design abilities, and team-based innovation potential. Qualitative data collection involves surveys, real-time observations, and videotaping of design review sessions. The team will exploit a suite of statistical analysis methods, including structural equation modeling with latent variables in passive longitudinal designs. The qualitative analysis will employ thematic, content, and discourse analyses. The research team will work with community project partners and domain experts to design and evaluate individual and team-based performance evaluation tasks. This project will inform our understanding of an individual's tendencies in innovative behaviors in relationship to their empathic tendencies, examine how team-based innovation potential is related to empathic design abilities presented by each member of the team, and support current efforts in smart healthcare engineering by better equipping students with the ability to innovate.

随着美国人口迅速老龄化，智能医疗技术对老年人和残疾人的福祉和护理质量至关重要。不幸的是，在工程创新过程中，为学生提供开发以用户为中心的解决方案的技术和专业能力方面存在有据可查的挑战。本项目旨在开展跨边界研究，以提高共情创新能力，从而在工程设计过程中支持以用户为中心。在这个项目中，研究小组将研究本科工程专业的学生如何随着时间的推移学习移情创新，以及这种学习如何受到基于社区的学习项目和课程的性质的影响。研究结果将为本科层次的移情创新教学提供有效的见解。在研究结果的指导下，教学和学习技术可以更好地设计，以帮助学生茁壮成长，获得宝贵的STEM知识和技能。通过知识传播和社区外联，这项研究将影响多个利益攸关方和机构。最终，这项研究将帮助学生成功地为不断发展的医疗保健行业的职业生涯做好准备，该行业需要美国八分之一的人口，消耗近五分之一的美国国内生产总值，每年花费约2.7万亿美元。本计画的具体研究问题为：（1）工程系本科生的共情设计倾向与能力在工程设计专案中如何演化;（2）工程系本科生的共情设计在何种程度上与他们在各种以使用者为中心的智慧健康工程设计专案中的工程创新相关。在这项研究中，研究小组将采用混合方法。量化指标包括个人共情倾向、创新倾向、共情设计能力和团队创新潜力。定性数据收集包括调查、实时观察和设计审查会议的录像。该团队将开发一套统计分析方法，包括被动纵向设计中的隐变量结构方程建模。定性分析将采用主题，内容和话语分析。研究团队将与社区项目合作伙伴和领域专家合作，设计和评估基于个人和团队的绩效评估任务。这个项目将告知我们的理解，个人的倾向，在创新行为的关系，他们的共情倾向，研究团队为基础的创新潜力是如何与团队的每个成员所呈现的共情设计能力，并通过更好地装备学生的创新能力，以支持目前在智能医疗工程的努力。

项目成果

Research Initiation: Enhancing the Learning Outcomes of Empathic Innovation in Biomedical Engineering Senior Design Projects

研究启动：增强生物医学工程高级设计项目中移情创新的学习成果

• DOI: 10.18260/1-2--35150
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Canada
• 作者: Kong, Nan;Purzer, Senay;Payne, Lindsey;Kim, Eunhye;Vivas-Valencia, Carolina
• 通讯作者: Vivas-Valencia, Carolina

An Assessment Instrument for User-centered Innovation Potential Among Biomedical Engineers

生物医学工程师以用户为中心的创新潜力评估工具

• DOI: 10.18260/1-2--34108
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Quebec
• 作者: Vivas-Valencia, Carolina;Kong, Nan;Kim, Eunhye;Purzer, Senay;Payne, Lindsey
• 通讯作者: Payne, Lindsey

Problem Reframing and Empathy Manifestation in the Innovation Process

创新过程中的问题重构和同理心表现

• DOI: 10.18260/1-2--35084
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Canada
• 作者: Kim, Eunhye;Purzer, Senay;Vivas-Valencia, Carolina;Payne, Lindsey;Kong, Nan
• 通讯作者: Kong, Nan