DIP: V-ICED Visually-Integrated Cyber Exploratorium for Design

PI正在设计、部署和研究在视觉上整合的设计网络探索馆--协作视觉设计活动的基础设施--的背景下的学习。该项目是在一门本科生创新设计课程的背景下进行的，研究重点是利用界面和环境以视觉形式表达想法时的设计和学习者能力，这些界面和环境捕捉显性和隐性知识，并可共享，以及促进围绕这种共享知识表示的概念学习和协作的启示。技术创新是一个网络基础设施硬件框架，包括触摸平板电脑、墙壁和维基，并结合了用于绘制草图和图表的软件，以及围绕它的社会技术系统，使创新思维所需的那种高端协作“游戏”得以实现。研究集中在促进设计中的学习；在社会学习环境中促进对思维的认知；视觉思维、想象和外化之间的关系；以及这种技术框架如何转变设计知识的创造和学习。基础是建构主义的学习理论，社会建构主义的知识社会建构观，自然用户界面(NUI)的设计，以及认知体现在环境的人工制品和承受能力中的观点。PI正在采取生态方法来检查环境，以了解环境因素的组合如何影响设计学习，特别是综合视觉思维、协作和创新。研究已经确立了探索性“发挥”在创造力和认知发展中的重要作用，以及这种探索在思维中的核心作用，特别是在对问题和设计挑战的创新解决方案的构思方面。该项目利用自然用户界面(NUI)固有的可能性，促进对协作学习、解决问题和设计所必需的各种想法的协作探索。正在设计的硬件基础设施使团队能够在一个大型协作多点触控界面中直观地表达、分享和提炼想法，从远处访问这些可视化并以文本形式对其进行注释，并与同学、队友和其他人广泛分享这些想法。这样的基础设施为在正式的学习环境中支持基于项目和基于设计的学习活动提供了基础，使所有团队成员都有机会做出适当的贡献，记录团队成员的贡献以供教师和其他导师检查，允许来自同行、导师和专家的共享和建议，并最终允许自动评估、帮助和建议。拟议的基础设施有可能在所有年龄段、在正式和非正式的学习环境中以及在工作场所使用。

The PIs are designing, deploying, and studying learning in the context of a visually-integrated cyber exploratorium for design -- an infrastructure for collaborative visual design activities. The project is being carried out in the context of an undergraduate innovative design course, and the investigative focus is on design of and learner capabilities when using interfaces and environments for expressing ideas in visual forms that capture explicit and tacit knowledge and that can be shared and the affordances for promoting learning of ideation and collaboration around such shared representations of knowledge. The technological innovation is a cyber-infrastructure hardware framework that includes touch tablets, walls, and a wiki combined with software for sketching and diagramming and the socio-technical system around it that enables the kinds of high-end collaborative "play" needed for innovative ideation. Research centers on promoting learning in design; promoting the cognition of ideation in a social learning environment; relationships between visual thinking, imagination, and externalization; and how such a technological framework transforms creation of design knowledge and learning. Foundations are in the constructivist theory of learning, the social constructivist view of social construction of knowledge, the design of natural user interfaces (NUIs), and the view that cognition is embodied in the artifacts and affordances of the environment. The PIs are taking an ecological approach to examining the environment to understand how its combination of factors influence design learning, specifically integrative visual thinking, collaboration, and innovation. Research has established the important role of exploratory "play" in the development of creativity and cognition and the central role of such exploration in ideation, especially in ideation of innovative solutions to problems and design challenges. This project leverages the possibilities inherent in natural user interfaces (NUIs) for promoting the kinds of collaborative exploration of ideas that is essential for collaborative learning, problem solving, and design. The hardware infrastructure being designed enables groups to articulate ideas visually, share them, and refine them together around a large collaborative multi-touch interface, to access those visualizations from afar and annotate them textually, and to share those ideas broadly with classmates, team-mates, and others. Such an infrastructure provides a foundation for supporting project-based and design-based learning activities in formal learning environments in ways that give all team members chances to contribute appropriately, record the contributions of team-mates for teachers and other mentors to examine, allow sharing and advice from peers, mentors, and experts, and eventually allow automatical assessment, help,and advice. The proposed infrastructure has potential to be used across all ages, in formal and informal learning environments, and in the workplace.