Collaborative Research: Fostering Engineering Creativity and Communication through Immediate, Personalized Feedback on 2D-Perspective Drawing

协作研究：通过对 2D 透视绘图的即时、个性化反馈来培养工程创造力和沟通

• 批准号: 2013554
• 负责人: Kerrie Douglas
• 金额: $ 22.63万
• 依托单位: Purdue University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-07-01 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2013554&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Fostering; Engineering; Creativity

This project aims to serve the national interest in excellent undergraduate engineering education by improving students’ ability to draw representations of structures and systems. Free-hand drawing is a crucial skill across engineering, especially for its ability to reduce complex systems to simplified, accurate diagrams. Such diagrams aid in idea generation, visualization of systems, and discussions between clients and engineers. When coupled with appropriate timely feedback, drawing can also be an effective learning tool for improving students’ visual communication skills and creativity. This project will use a computer application called SketchTivity to teach engineering students how to draw, and examine the impact of drawing instruction on student learning. SketchTivity is an intelligent tutoring system that provides real-time feedback on 2D drawings that students make on a screen instead of on paper. The application, which was developed by the research team, provides each student with iterative, real-time, personalized feedback on the drawing, promoting improvements and facilitating learning. Free-hand drawing and its associated benefits were inadvertently removed from the engineering curricula when educators transitioned from hand drafting to Computer-Aided-Design. This transition has resulted in the lack of student and faculty proficiency in freehand drawing. This project will support restoration of 2D-perspective drawing to engineering curricula. Since drawing is a skill that is also relevant to other STEM fields, this work is likely to have broad relevance in undergraduate STEM education.The project will enable the distribution of SketchTivity software to approximately 5,000 diverse undergraduate and graduate students at four partnering institutions. These students include a large percentage of women and students from other groups that are not equitably represented in STEM fields. The project has the potential to produce significant new knowledge about drawing-based artificial intelligence (AI) tools. It can also increase understanding about the effects of feedback and reflective prompts on drawing skills, and on learning and creativity. The project will compare AI-based assessments to assessments conducted by humans, thus providing additional information about development of intelligent tutoring systems. The impact of drawing ability on students’ creativity and spatial reasoning skills will be investigated, along with the transferability of drawing skills to other courses in engineering. A mixed-methods approach that includes surveys, validated assessments for engineering design creativity, and drawing quizzes, is proposed to assess project outcomes. The NSF IUSE: EHR Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. Through the Engaged Student Learning track, the program supports the creation, exploration, and implementation of promising practices and tools.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目旨在通过提高学生绘制结构和系统的表现能力来为卓越的本科工程教育提供国家利益。自由绘图是整个工程的一项至关重要的技能，尤其是因为它能够将复杂的系统减少到简化，准确的图表。这些图表有助于创意生成，系统可视化以及客户与工程师之间的讨论。当加上适当的及时反馈时，绘画也可以成为提高学生的视觉沟通技巧和创造力的有效学习工具。该项目将使用称为SketchTitive的计算机应用程序来教工程学生如何绘画，并检查绘画教学对学生学习的影响。 SketchTivity是一个智能的辅导系统，可在学生在屏幕上而不是在纸上进行的2D图纸提供实时反馈。该应用程序是由研究团队开发的，它为每个学生提供有关图纸的迭代，实时，个性化的反馈，促进改进和支持学习。当教育者从手绘到计算机辅助设计时，额外的绘图及其相关的好处无意间从工程课程中无意中删除。这种过渡导致缺乏学生和徒手绘画的教师能力。该项目将支持对工程课程的2D-Perspective绘图的修复。由于绘画是一项与其他STEM领域也相关的技能，因此这项工作可能在本科STEM教育中具有广泛的认可。该项目将使四个合作机构的大约5,000名潜水员本科生和研究生向大约5,000名潜水员的本科生和研究生分发Sketchtivity软件。这些学生包括很大一部分的妇女和来自其他群体中没有平均代表的妇女和学生。该项目有可能为基于绘图的人工智能（AI）工具提供重要的新知识。它还可以增加对反馈和反思提示对绘画技能以及学习和创造力的影响的理解。该项目将将基于AI的评估与人类进行的评估进行比较，从而提供有关智能辅导系统开发的其他信息。将研究绘画能力对学生创造性和空间推理技能的影响，提出了一种混合方法方法，其中包括调查，工程设计创意的经过验证的评估以及绘画测验，以评估项目成果。 NSF IUSE：EHR计划支持研发项目，以提高所有学生STEM教育的有效性。通过参与的学生学习轨道，该计划支持了承诺实践和工具的创建，探索和实施。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估审查标准，被认为是珍贵的支持。

项目成果

An insight into user experiences of an intelligent tutoring system to learn sketching skills

洞察智能素描辅导系统的用户体验

• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
• 作者: Jaison, D.;Merzdorf., H. E.;White, L.;Douglas, K. A.;Watson, K.;& Hammond, T.
• 通讯作者: & Hammond, T.