Elucidating the Process of Relating Vague Verbal Expressions in Design Conversation with their Referents

2022-2023财年的主要成果有：(1)进行了详细的文献综述，以便更好地将工作置于正在进行的涉及设计中眼动追踪的研究的背景下。在这方面，我们进行了广泛的调查，涉及1996-2023年间的30多件作品，并确定了几个集群，如记忆研究、导航研究、表格评估研究等。这使得本研究能够更好地定位于理解设计师行为的持续努力，并强调其将设计评估研究的范围扩展到几个利益相关者之间的设计对话领域的潜力；(2)获得东京工业大学伦理委员会的正式批准，可以进行人体受试者研究；(3)完成了在实验室环境下进行眼动追踪实验的技术准备，包括数据收集和分析的试点；(4)作为眼动追踪实验的基础，两项探索设计对话和解释之间关系的研究被执行并发表——一项研究展示了我们如何从语言中提取设计师的主观解释（Cao， Kahlon和Fujii， 2022），另一项研究中我们提出了一个分析设计叙事的框架（Kahlon和Fujii， 2022）。这些将作为分析眼动追踪实验数据的基础；(5)完成了第一批专业建筑师眼动追踪实验的招募。

The main achievements in FY 2022-2023 are: (1) a detailed literature review was conducted to better situate the work within the context of ongoing research involving eye tracking in design. In this, we have conducted a broad survey involving over 30 works between the years 1996-2023, and identified several clusters such as memory studies, navigation studies, form evaluation studies, etc. This enables to better position this study with respect to ongoing efforts to understand the behavior of designers, and emphasize its potential for expanding the scope of design evaluation studies into the domain of design conversation between several stakeholders; (2) a formal approval from the ethics committee of the Tokyo Institute of Technology was obtained, to conduct research with human subjects; (3) technical preparations for executing the eye tracking experiment in a lab environment were completed, including a pilot for data collection and its analysis; (4) as a basis for the eye tracking experiment, two studies which explore the relations between design conversation and interpretation were executed and published - one which demonstrates how we can extract designers' subjective interpretations from speech (Cao, Kahlon and Fujii, 2022) and another in which we proposed a framework for analyzing narratives in design (Kahlon and Fujii, 2022). These will serve as the basis for analyzing the data from the eye tracking experiment; (5) recruitment of our first group of professional architects for our eye tracking experiment was completed.