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能力来服务于国家对优秀本科工程教育的兴趣。手绘图是整个工程领域的一项关键技能，尤其是其将复杂系统简化为简化、准确图表的能力。这些图表有助于想法的产生、系统的可视化以及客户和工程师之间的讨论，当与适当的及时反馈相结合时，绘图也可以成为提高学生视觉沟通技能和创造力的有效学习工具。名为 SketchTivity 的应用程序可以教工程专业的学生如何SketchTivity 是一款智能辅导系统，可对学生在屏幕上而非纸上绘制的 2D 绘图提供实时反馈。该应用程序由研究团队开发。为每个学生提供关于绘图的迭代、实时、个性化反馈，促进改进并促进学习。当教育工作者从手绘过渡到绘图时，徒手绘图及其相关的好处被无意中从工程课程中删除。计算机辅助设计。这种转变导致学生和教师缺乏手绘能力，该项目将支持将 2D 透视绘图恢复到工程课程中，因为绘图是一项与其他 STEM 领域相关的技能。这项工作可能与本科生 STEM 教育具有广泛的相关性。该项目将向四个合作机构的大约 5,000 名不同的本科生和研究生分发 SketchTivity 软件，这些学生中大部分是女性。该项目有可能产生有关基于绘图的人工智能 (AI) 工具的重要新知识。它还可以增进对反馈和反思提示对绘图的影响的理解。该项目将比较基于人工智能的评估与人类进行的评估，从而提供有关智能辅导系统开发的更多信息。还将调查绘画能力对学生创造力和空间推理技能的影响。以及绘画技能可转移到其他课程NSF IUSE：EHR 计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生 STEM 教育的有效性，其中包括调查、经过验证的工程设计创造力评估和绘图测验。通过参与学生学习轨道，该计划支持有前途的实践和工具的创建、探索和实施。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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.