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Human-centred design research during the pandemic: Using an online survey to inform personas of women at risk of hip fracture
Get PDFDuring the global pandemic, social distancing rules made it difficult to conduct human-centred research into hip fracture protection, and in-person focus groups were abandoned. An online survey was developed to safely gather insights from people living with osteoporosis who are at risk of fragility fractures. The survey data informed the design of five personas that provide a critical lens to drive innovation in hip protector garment design and evaluate ongoing concept development. Although the pandemic disrupted people-facing research, the use of survey data provided a greater breadth of voices to inform the personas than focus groups alone
Better Dreams
Get PDFbook review of Worlds Beyond Time. Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s, Adam Rowe (224pp, hbck, £30, Abrams
INNOVATION - COACHING CONVERSATIONS FOR ENTREPRNEURS. Volume 2
No full textCOACHING CONVERSATIONS ON STRATEGY, TECHNOLOGY, INNOVATION AND GROWTH FOR ENTREPRENURS AND CORPORATE
Practitioner Review: Effectiveness and mechanisms of change in participatory arts‐based programmes for promoting youth mental health and well‐being – a systematic review
Get PDFBackgroundParticipatory arts‐based (PAB) programmes refer to a diverse range of community programmes involving active engagement in the creation process that appear helpful to several aspects of children's and young people's (CYP) mental health and well‐being. This mixed‐methods systematic review synthesises evidence relating to the effectiveness and mechanisms of change in PAB programmes for youth.MethodStudies were identified following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta‐Analyses approach. Eleven electronic databases were searched for studies of PAB programmes conducted with CYP (aged 4–25 years), which reported mental health and well‐being effectiveness outcomes and/or mechanisms of change. A mixed‐methods appraisal tool assessed study quality. A narrative synthesis was conducted of effectiveness and challenges in capturing this. Findings relating to reported mechanisms of change were integrated via a metasummary.ResultsTwenty‐two studies were included. Evidence of effectiveness from quantitative studies was limited by methodological issues. The metasummary identified mechanisms of change resonant with those proposed in talking therapies. Additionally, PAB programmes appear beneficial to CYP by fostering a therapeutic space characterised by subverting restrictive social rules, communitas that is not perceived as coercive, and inviting play and embodied understanding.ConclusionsThere is good evidence that there are therapeutic processes in PAB programmes. There is a need for more transdisciplinary work to increase understanding of context–mechanism–outcome pathways, including the role played by different art stimuli and practices. Going forward, transdisciplinary teams are needed to quantify short‐ and long‐term mental health and well‐being outcomes and to investigate optimal programme durations in relation to population and need. Such teams would also be best placed to work on resolving inter‐disciplinary methodological tensions
Peer Evaluation in Group Projects: Insight into Effective Student Critique and Feedback
Get PDFCollaborative projects are common in higher education. They yield authentic learning which nurtures employability. However, they can be difficult to assess. A concern is how educators measure collaboration fairly and equally. This research explores peer evaluation as a mechanism to critically examine such collaboration and form constructive feedback. Thematic analysis of comments made by fifty student teams using Feedback Fruits during retrospectives provides insight into what students believe noteworthy and how they formulate feedback. Correlating these with outcomes then illustrates the trends which lead to success, forming heuristics on good practice: key facets to consider and means to convey them. The session presents the question: “To what extent can university students offer insightful commentary on how they collaborate with peers?” An outline of the literature on peer feedback (Nicol et al, 2014) is situated in models of effective teamwork (Salas, Sims & Burke, 2005). This leads to hypotheses related to those facets of teamwork students focus on during their critique and their ability to formulate effective feedback (informed by Aivaloglou and Meulen, 2021). Next, the research methodology and context are described: a pair of large-scale modules implementing a group working strategy involving more than 50 teams of 6-12 game developers drawn from multiple disciplines who undertake a 30-week digital project. Notions of sprint retrospective sessions and the staff supervisor as a facilitator are provided alongside a light demonstration of the Feedback Fruits tool. Results from a thematic analysis highlight characteristics and trends typical of peer evaluation. Excerpts inform discussion on equality, diversity, and inclusion. Then, correlations with game ratings by assessors reveal those facets of peer evaluation that seem to support effective teamwork. Nokes-Malach, Richey, and Gadgils' (2015) insights on collaborative learning help distil these into heuristics that educators could use to nurture good practice in student critique and feedback
NIGHTTIME IN THE SPASM OF A MUSCLE
Get PDFA poem written in response to a phrase generated as part of poet Mike Ferguson's conversations with AI texts