Impact of user involvement on design students’ motivation and self-confidence
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- Peter Conradie (UGent) , Bram Van Acker (UGent) , Ellen De Vos (UGent) and Jelle Saldien (UGent)
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- Involvement of users in the design process is generally viewed favourably, both within academia and industry. Their involvement can be seen as a strategy for designers to clarify their design task and reduce uncertainties in the design process. Simultaneously, there is a lack of understanding about the impact that user involvement has on students and how they experience doing so. This paper reports on a study where students were asked to self-report their motivation and self-confidence throughout a design exercise, stretching 11 days, with surveys repeating daily. Additionally, students were asked to indicate which-if any-strategies of user involvement they used every day. We find that students self-reported motivation did not change statistically significantly, while self-confidence did change. However, in neither case did student's involvement of end-users impact how motivated or self-confident they were. We discuss our results in relation to existing research on method use in general and user involvement in particular and conclude with some suggestions for future work.
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- General Engineering, Education
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8620387
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- Conradie, Peter, et al. “Impact of User Involvement on Design Students’ Motivation and Self-Confidence.” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN EDUCATION, vol. 31, no. 1, 2021, pp. 183–97, doi:10.1007/s10798-019-09531-7.
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- Conradie, P., Van Acker, B., De Vos, E., & Saldien, J. (2021). Impact of user involvement on design students’ motivation and self-confidence. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN EDUCATION, 31(1), 183–197. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10798-019-09531-7
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- Conradie, Peter, Bram Van Acker, Ellen De Vos, and Jelle Saldien. 2021. “Impact of User Involvement on Design Students’ Motivation and Self-Confidence.” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN EDUCATION 31 (1): 183–97. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10798-019-09531-7.
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- Conradie, Peter, Bram Van Acker, Ellen De Vos, and Jelle Saldien. 2021. “Impact of User Involvement on Design Students’ Motivation and Self-Confidence.” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN EDUCATION 31 (1): 183–197. doi:10.1007/s10798-019-09531-7.
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- 1.Conradie P, Van Acker B, De Vos E, Saldien J. Impact of user involvement on design students’ motivation and self-confidence. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN EDUCATION. 2021;31(1):183–97.
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- [1]P. Conradie, B. Van Acker, E. De Vos, and J. Saldien, “Impact of user involvement on design students’ motivation and self-confidence,” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN EDUCATION, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 183–197, 2021.
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author = {{Conradie, Peter and Van Acker, Bram and De Vos, Ellen and Saldien, Jelle}},
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language = {{eng}},
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url = {{http://doi.org/10.1007/s10798-019-09531-7}},
volume = {{31}},
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