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Impact of user involvement on design students' motivation and self-confidence
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Author
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Abstract
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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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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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International journal of technology and design education. - Place of publication unknown
International Journal of Technology and Design Education
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Publication
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Place of publication unknown
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2021
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ISSN
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0957-7572
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DOI
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10.1007/S10798-019-09531-7
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Volume/pages
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31
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(2021)
, p. 183-197
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ISI
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000614051900011
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Full text (publisher's version - intranet only)
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