Ali, H., & Talko, T. T., & Martin, E., & Masongsong, A. L., & Wood, K. (2025, April), WIP: Exploring the collaborative affordances of reconfigurable design spaces: Interview protocol development  Paper presented at 2025 ASEE PSW Conference, California Polytechnic University, California. 10.18260/1-2--55203

\bibitem{asee_peer_55203}
  Ali, H., \& Talko, T. T., \& Martin, E., \& Masongsong, A. L., \& Wood, K. (2025, April), \emph{WIP: Exploring the collaborative affordances of reconfigurable design spaces: Interview protocol development}
  Paper presented at 2025 ASEE PSW Conference, California Polytechnic University, California.
  10.18260/1-2--55203

Hadi Ali, Trey Thomas Talko, Eli Martin, Angeline Liew Masongsong, and Katherine Wood.  "WIP: Exploring the collaborative affordances of reconfigurable design spaces: Interview protocol development".  2025 ASEE PSW Conference, California Polytechnic University, California, 2025, April.  ASEE Conferences, 2025.  https://peer.asee.org/55203 Internet.  19 Jul, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_55203}
  Hadi Ali, Trey Thomas Talko, Eli Martin, Angeline Liew Masongsong, and Katherine Wood.
  "WIP: Exploring the collaborative affordances of reconfigurable design spaces: Interview protocol development".
  \emph{2025 ASEE PSW Conference, California Polytechnic University, California, 2025, April}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2025.
  https://peer.asee.org/55203 Internet.  19 Jul, 2025

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AB  - In this work-in-progress, we develop an interview protocol to study collaborative behavior in design spaces and in relation to the affordances of the infrastructure of the design space. Although it may sound intuitive that design spaces exist to promote collaboration, this study is motivated by the observation that neither faculty nor students are efficacious in optimally reconfiguring design spaces. We seek to understand the relationship between self-efficacy in reconfiguring design spaces by students and faculty, as users of the space, and their perceived importance of reconfiguring the space to promote collaboration. The initial conditions of the collaboration space should never hinder the creativity in the design process. A design space configuration drives behavior, and conversely, the behavior of space users drives configuration. Yet, in an academic setting, as users transition between traditional classes and design spaces, the nuances of the collaborative affordances of reconfigurable design spaces seem to be missing. While it may be easy to simplistically assume the function of design space, our study aims to emphasize how design spaces should offer signals for users, especially in an academic setting, to augment the pedagogy of design education in subtle ways. We describe in this paper the research design to study participants behavior during designing and in relation to the design space. Semi-structured interviews are used with faculty and student participants in a cross-sectional study in design-based engineering courses. Specifically, we share here our developed interview protocol for data collection using the critical incident methods and artifact elicitation. We share preliminary findings from a pilot interview conducted with a senior engineering student in an early phase of their capstone design project.
AU  - Hadi Ali
AU  - Trey Thomas Talko
AU  - Eli Martin
AU  - Angeline Liew Masongsong
AU  - Katherine Wood
CY  - California Polytechnic University, California
DA  - 2025/04/10
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - WIP: Exploring the collaborative affordances of reconfigurable design spaces: Interview protocol development
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DO  - 10.18260/1-2--55203
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