Using Design Interventions to Develop Communication Solutions for Integrated Pest Management

Abstract Iowa State University’s (ISU) Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program partnered with the ISU College of Design (COD) to use Design Thinking and other practical design methodologies and theories to identify and develop approaches to address IPM extension and communication issues. ISU IPM met with agriculture industry, program colleagues, and ISU COD faculty to discuss IPM-related needs in agriculture and to determine the program’s primary challenges. ISU COD faculty developed a two-semester course for undergraduate students, allocating various resources to solve these challenges. Undergraduates in the course, as the primary agents and problem solvers, developed various strategies the IPM program and its colleagues could implement. A model of interdisciplinary collaboration was developed, where design and science may function as equal partners in a design education setting. In our collaboration, the partners bought into a design-led process-based methodology that began with identifying IPM communication needs. This project resulted in unique design interventions to communicate IPM to stakeholders and the public, as well as created a model for interdisciplinary cooperation that can be exported to fields outside of agriculture and IPM.

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DESIGN THINKING MODELS IN DESIGN RESEARCH AND EDUCATION

SOCIETY INTEGRATION EDUCATION Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference ◽

10.17770/sie2016vol4.1584 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 4 ◽

pp. 488 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Andra Irbīte ◽

Aina Strode

Keyword(s):

Design Education ◽

Design Research ◽

Design Thinking ◽

Social Economic ◽

Interdisciplinary Cooperation ◽

Public Higher Education ◽

Traditional Design ◽

Systems Requirements ◽

Research And Education ◽

Is Design

Design thinking has become a paradigm that is considered to be useful in solving many problems in different areas: both in development of design projects and outside of traditional design practice. It raises the question - is design thinking understood as a universal methodology in all cases? How it is interpreted in design education? The analysis of theoretical and design related literature indicates different basic and contextual challenges facing design today: increasing scale of social, economic and industrial borders; complexity of environment and systems; requirements in all levels. As specialists and researchers in the field of design have concluded, here are multiple disconnects betweenwhat the graduate design schools are teaching at the level of methods and what skills is already needed. The problems have been found also in interdisciplinary cooperation and research. In the context of design thinking models and problem solving methods, the analysis shows that design education implementers in public higher education institutions in Latvia are ready for local and global challenges.

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Expert User Education: Redefining Role of Design And Designers of IR 4.0 in Rehabilitation Setting

Asian Journal of University Education ◽

10.24191/ajue.v15i3.7808 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 15 (3) ◽

pp. 266

Author(s):

Nurhikma Mat Yusof ◽

YM Raja Azmeer YM Raja Effendi ◽

Siaful Hasley Ramli

Keyword(s):

Design Education ◽

Social Impact ◽

Design Thinking ◽

Design Method ◽

Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽

Field Research ◽

Design Practice ◽

Expert User ◽

Design Activities ◽

Design Intervention

Interdisciplinary is a huge innovation in education. It sets a wide perspective of knowledge boundaries with different background of expertise in order to achieve better outcomes and social impact. Innovation in the other way closely related to the creative mind as being portrayed as design thinking. A cross-field research has been conducted between occupational therapist (expert-user) and designer due to innovation activities occurs in the rehabilitation setting. Increasing creation of assistive technology (AT) for patients grows in numbers but unfortunately issues of the low rate of usage being highlighted. What went wrong to those creation? The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effective design practice that suits to the need of interdisciplinary for design intervention in rehabilitation setting. In design education, several approaches were applied by the designers to help the non-designer to innovate products in their field such as co-creation. Hence, a total of selected studies from design and innovation journal between year 2010 until 2018 being reviewed using Mendeley to analyse the difference design activities involved. Upon findings, attributes for interdisciplinary for design education for expert-user are including types of user, experience and technology factors. Recommendation for further research in design method for interdisciplinary collaboration for expert-user is perceived to bring better creation by future Design Innovation Catalyst (DIC) where they can adopt design intervention in their field for effective problem solving; either in design or non-design activities. The importance of these findings for design interdisciplinary is discussed. KEYWORDS: Co-design practice, Expert-user, Innovation, Interdisciplinary

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Electron investigations of rhabdovirus-like particles in mexican bean beetles and crickets

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100082753 ◽

1978 ◽

Vol 36 (2) ◽

pp. 378-379

Author(s):

J. R. Adams ◽

G. J Tompkins ◽

A. M. Heimpel ◽

E. Dougherty

Keyword(s):

Biological Control ◽

Integrated Pest Management ◽

Pest Management ◽

Developmental Stages ◽

Management Program ◽

Acheta Domesticus ◽

Epilachna Varivestis ◽

House Cricket ◽

Similar Morphology ◽

Bean Beetle

As part of a continual search for potential pathogens of insects for use in biological control or on an integrated pest management program, two bacilliform virus-like particles (VLP) of similar morphology have been found in the Mexican bean beetle Epilachna varivestis Mulsant and the house cricket, Acheta domesticus (L. ).Tissues of diseased larvae and adults of E. varivestis and all developmental stages of A. domesticus were fixed according to procedures previously described. While the bean beetles displayed no external symptoms, the diseased crickets displayed a twitching and shaking of the metathoracic legs and a lowered rate of activity.Examinations of larvae and adult Mexican bean beetles collected in the field in 1976 and 1977 in Maryland and field collected specimens brought into the lab in the fall and reared through several generations revealed that specimens from each collection contained vesicles in the cytoplasm of the midgut filled with hundreds of these VLP's which were enveloped and measured approximately 16-25 nm x 55-110 nm, the shorter VLP's generally having the greater width (Fig. 1).

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