Emotional disturbance and its constructive role in the learning process of collaborative design
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Design work is filled with rich emotions and feelings resulting from resolving team conflicts to breaking impasses to discovering creative insight. In this dissertation, I have furthered the theoretical understandings about the constructive role of emotion and emotional disturbance in group design innovation activities and proposed a method of studying it. With a field study of novice designers and a mixed-methods study of experienced designers, I have presented ample evidence about the relationship between intense emotional experiences of disturbance and knowledge construction. In the mixed-methods study, I integrated speech acoustics (e.g., vocal pitch) and other bodily signals into video interaction analysis and examined how emotions develop as self-organizing social processes, how they are experienced as ongoing constructed interactions, and how they interact with other key processes of learning and discovery. Together, the current dissertation (1) advances theorizing on the emotional process underlying designers' learning, growth and performance, and (2) proposes a situated and integrated methodology for accessing, characterizing and understanding designers' moment-by-moment emotional dynamics in naturalistic settings. My work on the inherently emotional nature of design fills a gap in research that most often leaves out emotion in the study of designer cognition and behavior. For engineering and design practitioners, my work challenges the stereotypical view that emotion is separate from the intellectual process of engineering and design. My work affords a new way of seeing emotion as functional to creative engineering and design work, and opens up an important path for improving its practice and education.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2021; ©2021 |
| Publication date | 2021; 2021 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Ge, Xiao |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Leifer, Larry J |
| Degree supervisor | Sheppard, S. (Sheri) |
| Thesis advisor | Leifer, Larry J |
| Thesis advisor | Sheppard, S. (Sheri) |
| Thesis advisor | Markus, Hazel Rose |
| Thesis advisor | Pea, Roy D |
| Degree committee member | Markus, Hazel Rose |
| Degree committee member | Pea, Roy D |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Mechanical Engineering |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Xiao Ge. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Mechanical Engineering. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2022. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/kr176xs9593 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2021 by Xiao Ge
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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