Developing design creativity: the potential for using engineering computer games

开发设计创造力：使用工程计算机游戏的潜力

• 批准号: 2596899
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2596899
• 关键词: Developing; design; creativity; potential; using

This study aims to understand the opportunities for the latest generation of physics-based engineering computer games to be used for remote engineering design education. The project will leverage these games to develop educational interventions to support student learning about the creative design process, including problem definition, concept generation, concept selection, concept development and prototyping. The effectiveness of those interventions will be assessed to permit recommendations to be made for educational uptake of such games, either as a replacement for similar physical activities (when required) or as an addition to them. The project will proceed in six stages: (1) review relevant prior work related to engineering education, design education, remote learning, distributed teams and gamification; (2) review the latest generation of engineering games, such as Poly Bridge (Dry Cactus) and Fantastic Contraption (Northway Games), focussing on their educational potential; (3) identify and develop tasks or levels for such games, focussing on opportunities for students to explore creative design activities and apply engineering science; (4) develop educational interventions using such tasks or levels, considering staged activities, team roles, offline calculations and predictions; (5) use controlled experiments to investigate the effectiveness of such interventions with student groups, both at CUED and other educational institutions (expand to professional groups if possible), (6) compare such interventions with physical design-build-test activities to identify gaps and overlaps in learning.

这项研究旨在了解最新一代基于物理的工程计算机游戏的机会，用于远程工程设计教育。该项目将利用这些游戏来开发教育干预措施，以支持学生对创意设计过程的学习，包括问题定义，概念生成，概念选择，概念开发和原型制作。这些干预措施的有效性将被评估，以便允许对此类游戏的教育吸收提出建议，以替代类似的体育活动（在需要时）或补充它们。该项目将在六个阶段进行：（1）审查与工程教育，设计教育，远程学习，分布式团队和游戏化有关的相关先前工作； （2）回顾最新一代的工程游戏，例如Poly Bridge（干仙人掌）和出色的装备（Northway Games），重点关注其教育潜力； （3）确定并开发此类游戏的任务或级别，重点关注学生探索创意设计活动并应用工程科学的机会； （4）考虑分阶段活动，团队角色，离线计算和预测，使用此类任务或级别制定教育干预措施； （5）使用受控的实验来研究与学生群体（在提示和其他教育机构）（如果可能的话）上与学生群体进行此类干预措施的有效性，（如果可能的话，将扩展到专业团体），（6）将此类干预措施与物理设计建筑测试活动进行比较，以识别学习差距和学习重叠。