scholarly journals Collaborative Design Reasoning in a Large Interdisciplinary Learning Tool Design Project

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-97
Author(s):  
Feiya Luo ◽  
Pavlo “Pasha” Antonenko ◽  
Natercia Valle ◽  
Emily Sessa ◽  
Gordon Burleigh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Design ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Domain Knowledge ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Learning Tool ◽  
Innovative Learning ◽  
Design Reasoning ◽  
Collaboration Platforms ◽  
International Experts

This design case discusses the complex collaborative design reasoning processes involved in developing an online interactive learning tool for learners of all ages to explore and understand the role of flagellate plants in our society. The learning tool consists of a main website (the Voyager) and an interactive, dynamic map of the evolutionary relationships between thousands of flagellate plant species (the customized OneZoom web application). The design and development of this innovative learning tool required expertise in collaborative design, design reasoning, project management, theories of learning and instructional strategies, software development, and web usability. Collaboration platforms used by the project team involved GitHub and Slack. Domain knowledge needed to complete the project included botany (flagellate plants), web programming (Python and JavaScript), and database management (MySQL). The project included a team of international experts who negotiated design strategies and solutions over the course of a year and produced and improved prototypes until converging on the final product. This article explains the challenges faced during these processes and presents solutions and lessons learned from this experience.

scholarly journals 1125. Innovative Virtual Learning in the Midst of a Pandemic - Patients, Populations, and Pandemics: Responding to COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S592-S593
Author(s):  
Lucille K Kohlenberg ◽  
Muriel J Solberg ◽  
Fatima N Ali-Mirza ◽  
Sheela Shenoi ◽  
Saad Omer
Keyword(s):  
Student Participation ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Direct Patient Care ◽  
Future Health ◽  
Unique Challenge ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
Group Presentations ◽  
Innovative Learning ◽  
Education Medical ◽  
Virtual Setting

Abstract Background The COVID-19 pandemic has posed a unique challenge to undergraduate medical education. Medical schools postponed student participation in direct patient care in mid-March 2020, creating the need for rapidly-designed, virtual, and innovative learning experiences. Methods Utilizing Kern’s six-step approach to curriculum development, faculty and medical student liaisons rapidly designed a six-week online and interactive course for clerkship-year students and above, launched on March 30th, 2020. “Patients, Populations, and Pandemics: Responding to COVID-19” emphasized honing higher level skills of Bloom’s taxonomy, namely evaluating, synthesizing, and creating. Following weekly faculty-led lectures, student groups identified research questions, analyzed literature, presented data, critiqued peer presentations, and created infographics for the public. Results We aimed to maintain quality and interactiveness despite challenges posed by our timeframe, the evolving COVID-19 literature, and the virtual setting. We recruited frontline faculty and designed the course to facilitate discussion, thereby promoting real-time exploration of public health and clinical challenges. Encouraging student participation, we incorporated group synthesis sessions and instructed use of video, hand-raising, and chat features. In a survey administered at the end of the first week, 85.7% (18/21) of students strongly agreed or agreed that small group presentations successfully enabled synthesis of new and emerging data. Among the 29 enrolled students, 82.8% (24/29) of students completed final course evaluations, with 87.5% (21/24) agreeing that the learning activities “usually” or “always” helped meet the learning objectives identified at the beginning of the course. The course was rated as “excellent” or “very good” by 83.3% (20/24) of students. Conclusion Lessons learned include providing students with increased direction on critically reviewing peer presentations and imparting guidance on best practices for data synthesis. This course model will be disseminated throughout our institution and beyond to address challenges in remote learning and to serve as a paradigm during future health crises. Disclosures All Authors: No reported disclosures

Immersive Virtual Reality Exergames for People Living with Dementia: Working Through a User-Centered Co-Creation Process as a Multi-Stakeholder Team During the COVID-19 Pandemic (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Muñoz ◽  
Samira Mehrabi ◽  
Yirou Li ◽  
Aysha Basharat ◽  
Jennifer Boger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Collaborative Design ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
Complex Needs ◽  
Activity Promotion ◽  
Multi Stakeholder

BACKGROUND Advancements in supporting personalized healthcare and wellbeing using virtual reality (VR) has created opportunities to use immersive games to support a healthy lifestyle for persons living with dementia (PLWD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Collaboratively designing exercise-video games (exergames) as a multi-stakeholder team is fundamental to creating games that are attractive, effective, and accessible. OBJECTIVE This research explores the use of participatory design methods that involve PLWD in long-term care facilitates, exercise professionals, content developers, game designers, and researchers in the creation of VR exergames targeting physical activity promotion for PLWD/MCI. METHODS Conceptualization, collaborative design, and playtesting activities were carried out to design VR exergames to engage PLWD in exercises to promote upper-limb flexibility, strength and aerobic endurance RESULTS Our results demonstrate how different stakeholders contribute to the design of VR exergames that consider/complement complex needs, preferences, and motivators of an underrepresented group of end-users as well as game design elements that reflect feedback for therapists and researchers. CONCLUSIONS This study provides evidence that collaborative multi-stakeholder design results in more tailored and context-aware VR games for PLWD. The insights and lessons learned in from this research can be used by others to co-design games, including remote engagement techniques that were used during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Problem-Solving Manager

2022 ◽  
pp. 234-254
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Team Members ◽  
The Past ◽  
Innovative Learning ◽  
Flow Charts ◽  
Additional Role

The Problem-Solving Manager makes the approved best practices available across the organization. This chapter presents the flow charts and pseudo-code for developing the Problem-Solving Manager. This chapter also shows that this additional role for the Problem-Solving Manager enables an innovative learning (iLearning) organization. Innovative learning begins with all team members having access to the same knowledge for the current “best way” of solving a problem. This knowledge is where the lessons learned from the past meet the best thinking of the present to learn how to do things better – innovative learning.

scholarly journals Online Learning and Emergency Remote Teaching: Opportunities and Challenges in Emergency Situations

Societies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 86
Author(s):  
Fernando Ferri ◽  
Patrizia Grifoni ◽  
Tiziana Guzzo
Keyword(s):  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
Italian Case ◽  
Online Discussion Forum ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Internet Connections ◽  
International Experts ◽  
Physical Spaces

The aim of the study is to analyse the opportunities and challenges of emergency remote teaching based on experiences of the COVID-19 emergency. A qualitative research method was undertaken in two steps. In the first step, a thematic analysis of an online discussion forum with international experts from different sectors and countries was carried out. In the second step (an Italian case study), both the data and the statements of opinion leaders from secondary online sources, including web articles, statistical data and legislation, were analysed. The results reveal several technological, pedagogical and social challenges. The technological challenges are mainly related to the unreliability of Internet connections and many students’ lack of necessary electronic devices. The pedagogical challenges are principally associated with teachers’ and learners’ lack of digital skills, the lack of structured content versus the abundance of online resources, learners’ lack of interactivity and motivation and teachers’ lack of social and cognitive presence (the ability to construct meaning through sustained communication within a community of inquiry). The social challenges are mainly related to the lack of human interaction between teachers and students as well as among the latter, the lack of physical spaces at home to receive lessons and the lack of support of parents who are frequently working remotely in the same spaces. Based on the lessons learned from this worldwide emergency, challenges and proposals for action to face these same challenges, which should be and sometimes have been implemented, are provided.

Building multifunctionality into agricultural conservation programs: lessons learned from designing agroforestry systems with central Illinois landowners

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Christian Stanek ◽  
Sarah Taylor Lovell
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Collaborative Design ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Conservation Policy ◽  
Agroforestry Systems ◽  
Agricultural Landscapes ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Conservation Programs ◽  
Multifunctional Landscapes ◽  
The Usa

AbstractSince 1985, land retirement has been the primary approach used by the federal government for environmental protection of agricultural landscapes, but increasingly it is being supplemented by conservation initiatives on working lands. This shift logically supports agroforestry and other multifunctional approaches as a means to combine production and conservation. However, such approaches can be complex and difficult to design, contributing to the limited adoption in the USA. To understand and improve the integration of multifunctional landscapes into conservation programs, we worked with 15 landowners in a collaborative design process to build unique conservation plans utilizing agroforestry. We interviewed participants before and after the design process to examine the utility of a personalized design process, applicability of agroforestry to conservation programs and pathways to improve conservation policy. We found that landowners strongly preferred working in person for the design process, and being presented a comparison of alternative designs, rather than a single option, especially for novel systems. Agroforestry was seen as a viable method of generating conservation benefits while providing value to the landowners, each of whom stated they were more inclined to adopt such practices irrespective of financial assistance to do so. For conservation programs, landowners suggested reducing their complexity, inflexibility and impersonal nature to improve the integration of multifunctional practices that appeal directly to the practitioner's needs and preferences. These findings are valuable for conservation policy because they complement previous research theory suggesting the value of working collaboratively with landowners in the design of multifunctional landscapes. Personalized solutions that are developed based on the unique characteristics of the local landscape and the preferences of the individual landowner may be retained beyond a specified payment period, rather than being converted back into annual crop production.

scholarly journals MaGIC: a machine learning tool set and web application for monoallelic gene inference from chromatin

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Svetlana Vinogradova ◽  
Sachit D. Saksena ◽  
Henry N. Ward ◽  
Sébastien Vigneau ◽  
Alexander A. Gimelbrant
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Learning Tool ◽  
Tool Set ◽  
Machine Learning Tool

Addressing the ‘Tower of Babel’ of pesticide regulations: an ontology for supporting pest-control decisions

2019 ◽  
Vol 157 (6) ◽  
pp. 493-503
Author(s):  
A. Goldstein ◽  
L. Fink ◽  
O. Raphaeli ◽  
A. Hetzroni ◽  
G. Ravid
Keyword(s):  
Pest Control ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Intelligent Systems ◽  
Domain Knowledge ◽  
Core Component ◽  
Tower Of Babel ◽  
Comprehensive Method ◽  
Ontology Language ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Country Specific

AbstractFarmers, who have to decide which pesticide to use against a particular crop-damaging pest, need to take into account country-specific regulations (e.g. permitted levels of pesticide residues), application instructions and financial considerations. The fact that these data are stored in different locations, sometimes using different terminology or different languages, makes it difficult to gather these data and requires that farmers are familiar with the variety of terms used, which consequently hampers the efficiency and effectiveness of the decision process. To overcome these challenges, a Web application for pest control is proposed to facilitate the integration of information coming from different Internet sources and representing different terminologies by using an ontology. The application is based on a pest-control ontology (formal representations of domain knowledge that can be interpreted by computers) that accounts for various pesticide regulations of different countries to which the crop is exported. In recent years, ontologies have become a major tool for domain knowledge representation and a core component of many knowledge management systems, decision support systems and other intelligent systems, inter alia, in the context of agriculture. The pest-control ontology developed in the current research includes pest-control concepts that have yet to be covered by existing ontologies. It is demonstrated in the specific case of pepper in Israel. The ontology is expressed using Web Ontology Language (OWL) and thus can be shared on the Web and reused by other ontologies and systems. In addition, a comprehensive method for developing and evaluating agricultural ontologies is presented.

Stakeholder engagement: A foundation for natural heritage systems identification and conservation in southern Ontario

2012 ◽  
Vol 88 (06) ◽  
pp. 686-696 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Spang ◽  
Christopher M. Lemieux ◽  
Silvia Strobl
Keyword(s):  
Stakeholder Engagement ◽  
Collaborative Design ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Target Setting ◽  
Southern Ontario ◽  
Natural Heritage ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Political Boundaries ◽  
Engagement Process

In southern Ontario, multiple organizations apply various approaches to identifying natural heritage systems (NHS). Natural heritage systems comprise a network of natural features and areas, such as protected areas, forests, wetlands, river corridors, lakes, and meadows, as well as the associated natural processes to be conserved and/or managed for various environmental and public services. The application of a variety of approaches can lead to a lack of connections between natural heritage features across political jurisdictions. To further complicate the situation, not all municipalities have the necessary tools and information available to identify and protect NHS nor do they have the capacity to coordinate designing NHS with neighbouring jurisdictions. To address these challenges, a new approach was developed and tested that engages many stakeholders in the collaborative design of a NHS for an ecologically based landscape that crosses several political boundaries. Engagement is an opportunity to work together on common goals with stakeholders, communities, and citizens to find solutions to complex problems and move beyond the traditional consultation that government has used extensively in the past. We engaged a representative group of stakeholders to design and map a scientifically based, quantitatively derived NHS. The engagement process alternated data preparation and analysis activities with target-setting and decision-making by a diverse group of stakeholders, including municipalities, government agencies, non-governmental organizations, stewardship groups, landowners, and other interests. Throughout the target-setting process, observations and feedback from the stakeholders were collected. This paper both documents a number of lessons learned through the engagement process, and demonstrates that stakeholder engagement in NHS design has great potential to coordinate conservation efforts across political jurisdictions and the varied mandates of several organizations.

Development of a J2EE Web Application for STEP-Based Design Conformance Checking

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Q. Z. Yang ◽  
W. F. Lu
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Collaborative Design ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Collaborative Problem Solving ◽  
Prototype System ◽  
Conformance Checking ◽  
3D Cad ◽  
Functional Teams ◽  
Process Detection ◽  
Design Conflicts

Product design needs great team efforts from multi-disciplinary participants, even external partners, for collaborative problem solving. Design conflicts within and between functional teams do occur in such a collaborative design process. Detection and resolution of design conflicts through design conformance checking therefore becomes a critical activity in the joint design problem solving. This paper presents the development of a J2EE application prototype to support the STEP-based design conformance checking. A STEP-compliant information model has been specified to represent 3D CAD objects and other design information, while a knowledge representation model been proposed to describe design rules and constraints. The STEP objects and rule objects are managed and processed by the enterprise Java beans of a J2EE application server, which continuously applies the rule objects to the STEP objects and finally draws a conclusion for the design conformance checking. Application scenarios are discussed in the paper to illustrate the effectiveness of both the STEP/rule objects modeling approaches and the prototype system for support of the design compliance checking in distributed environment.

Application of Systems Engineering to Machine Design for Technology Students

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony D’Angelo ◽  
Edwin K. P. Chong
Keyword(s):  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Collaborative Design ◽  
Failure Modes ◽  
Block Diagram ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Conveyor System ◽  
Technology Students ◽  
Resistance Approach ◽  
Systems Requirements ◽  
Design Calculations

This paper discusses the results of a literature search on implementing novel approaches to teaching engineering design as well as the need for teaching Systems Engineering (SE) at an undergraduate level. In addition, the paper presents the results and lessons learned by assigning a capstone project requiring students to develop a conveyor system using the 8-phase SE process and a project based collaborative design methodology. The instructor teaches the fundamentals of systems engineering, the concept of synthesis, and the basics of trade-off studies. Students learn how to use functional modeling and the proper use of a functional flow block diagram to transform design requirements into failure modes. Students perform traditional failure mode calculations, using a strength-resistance approach, on machine components such as shafts, bearings, gears, belts, chains, keyways, splines, clutches, springs, brakes, and bolts for the conveyor system’s transmission. The instructor assigns a conveyor system and its systems requirements and students must demonstrate their understanding of the SE process as well as being able to perform design calculations on various machine components. The students demonstrate their understanding of SE and failure modes by taking part in design reviews throughout the semester and a final engineering report.

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