Continuing Education and Personalization of Design Methods to Improve their Acceptance in Practice – An Explorative Study

Üreten, Selin; Beckmann, Gregor; Schwenke, Eilika; Krause, Dieter; Cao, Shi

doi:10.1016/j.procir.2017.01.012

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“…The operationalised variables were measured through self-assessment of the students and enriched by feedback from tutors and observers' real-time observations, which were documented in protocols. Whilst two conditions are included in a publication [9], many more levels have been developed for this experiment.…”

Section: Design Method-specific Cases -Studies From Pkt and Ipekmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Concept Map for Design Method Experiments in Product Development – A Guideline for Method Developers

Üreten¹,

Eisenmann²,

Nelius³

et al. 2019

DFX 2019: Proceedings of the 30th Symposium Design for X, 18-19 September 2019, Jesteburg, Germany

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Due to the emergence of experiments in product development and yet still missing systematic adjustment of the generic experimental design procedure to test design methods, a facilitation is required. A concept map to depict the most important elements to consider when validating design methods in an experiment was developed systematically to guide method developers. Combining literature findings with the analysis of six cases in academia and an intensive exchange of researchers between different institutions resulted in the concept map. Future research potentials in the definition of variables, gaining objective results and managing the required tools are outlined. The concept map is available online for further feedback from the community.

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Section: Design Method-specific Cases -Studies From Pkt and Ipekmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Concept Map for Design Method Experiments in Product Development – A Guideline for Method Developers

Üreten¹,

Eisenmann²,

Nelius³

et al. 2019

DFX 2019: Proceedings of the 30th Symposium Design for X, 18-19 September 2019, Jesteburg, Germany

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“…Research on learning personalization is getting more and more critical with the increasing use of digital environments, such as learning object repositories, learning management systems, and devices for mobile learning (Ureten et al, 2017). This advancement has made data collection an inherent process of delivering content to learners, especially with the appearance of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) (Zheng et al, 2015) and the Learning Analytics (LA) (Greller and Drachsler, 2012) field.…”

Section: Recommender Systems In Educationmentioning

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Equality of Learning Opportunity via Individual Fairness in Personalized Recommendations

Marras,

Boratto,

Ramos

et al. 2020

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Online educational platforms are promising to play a primary role in mediating the success of individuals' careers. Hence, while building overlying content recommendation services, it becomes essential to ensure that learners are provided with equal learning opportunities, according to the platform values, context, and pedagogy. Even though the importance of creating equality of learning opportunities has been well investigated in traditional institutions, how it can be operationalized scalably in online learning ecosystems through recommender systems is still under-explored. In this paper, we formalize principles, that aim to model a range of learning opportunity properties in recommendations, and a metric that combines them to quantify the equality of learning opportunities among learners. Then, we envision a scenario wherein platform owners seek to guarantee that the generated recommendations meet each principle, to a certain degree, for all learners, constrained to their individual preferences. Under this view, we provide observations on learning opportunities in a real-world online dataset, highlighting inequalities among learners. To mitigate this effect, we propose a post-processing approach that balances personalization and learning opportunity equality in recommendations. Experiments on a large-scale dataset demonstrate that our approach leads to higher equality of learning opportunity, with a small loss in personalization.

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“…Industry insights were included when developing the circular composites design method; however, its application has not yet been tested in practice. Such testing is essential, since many developed design methods find limited uptake in industry and their actual impact remains unclear [20,21]. This is caused by many of the methods being developed out of context and without having the user in mind [22,23].…”

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“…This is caused by many of the methods being developed out of context and without having the user in mind [22,23]. Design methods do not merely provide a formal description of the design process, they are part of the interaction between the designer, context, and design goal [21,22]. Failing to take these factors into account during method development leads to design methods having limited usability, unknown performance and ensuing poor acceptance in industry practice [22,23].…”

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Circular Composites by Design: Testing a Design Method in Industry

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The design of composite products for a circular economy is challenging. Materials such as glass-fibre-reinforced plastics have long product lifetimes but are hard to recycle. For the effective reuse and recycling of products, parts, and materials, recovery strategies must be selected and implemented in the product design stage. This extends the scope and complexity of the design process and requires additional skills from the designers. We developed a novel circular composites design method for products containing composite materials to support designers and improve product circularity. This method, which is the first of its kind to address the circular design of composite products, helps designers explore recovery pathways and generate design solutions. In this study, we evaluated the method’s effectiveness, accessibility, and usability in design practice. We tested the method with five design case studies in the construction, furniture, and automotive industries. The method was used to generate, evaluate, communicate, and detail product designs. We found that two of the five cases used the method to develop circular product concepts. In the other three cases, recycling rather than product-level recovery strategies was the result, with a focus on improving the material formulations instead of the overall product design. Although the designers considered the method accessible and usable, its effectiveness was restricted by the existing business, logistics, reprocessing technology, and policy contexts. These factors are intertwined and partly dictate the boundary conditions of the design, which means that to successfully implement the proposed method, the transition to a circular economy requires a holistic approach to adjust the design process, organisations, and value chains.

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Continuing Education and Personalization of Design Methods to Improve their Acceptance in Practice – An Explorative Study

Cited by 10 publications

References 5 publications

A Concept Map for Design Method Experiments in Product Development – A Guideline for Method Developers

A Concept Map for Design Method Experiments in Product Development – A Guideline for Method Developers

Equality of Learning Opportunity via Individual Fairness in Personalized Recommendations

Circular Composites by Design: Testing a Design Method in Industry

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