Designing Learning Opportunities in Interaction Design: Interactionaries as a means to study and teach student design processes

A model to analyse students’ cooperative idea generation in conceptual design

“…Such a task is a way of developing student performative creative skills as well as a way to kick-start innovative processes (Artman et al 2014;Ramberg et al 2013). Even though this type of time-constrained design task does by no means cover all possible cases of collaborative conceptual design, it can provide an educationally relevant example and thus relevant qualitative data that can be used to explore and illustrate possible applications of the model.…”

“…This happens not only through talk, but also by using sketches, gestures, enactments or drama (Arvola and Artman 2007;Juhl and Lindegaard 2013;Ramberg et al 2013;Sun et al 2014;Suwa and Tversky 1997;Tholander et al 2008). For example Juhl and Lindegaard (2013), in their studies of engineering students solving design tasks, conclude that sketching helped the students synthesize ideas, and facilitated mutual understanding and decision-making.…”

“…For the test sessions we used an educational format called the interactionary (see Ramberg et al 2013), consisting of a short design task (lasting from about 10 to 30 min) that a team of students had to solve overtly and in front of the teacher and fellow students. Such a task is a way of developing student performative creative skills as well as a way to kick-start innovative processes (Artman et al 2014;Ramberg et al 2013).…”

“…Not much attention has been given to the collaborative aspects of creative processes (e.g. Artman et al 2014;Juhl and Lindegaard 2013;Ramberg et al 2013). In particular, decision-making processes have been highlighted as an area of importance for further study (e.g.…”

“…See Artman et al 2014;Ramberg et al 2013). Development of the model was initiated by applying the concept of transformation (cf.…”