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Item Design for Embodied Learning Experiences: Introducing a Process-oriented Design Framework(The Ohio State University. Department of Design, 2024-08) Liu, MinToday, in the world of exhibition design, designers are challenged to employ technologies to enhance learning experiences by considering embodied learning possibilities, which emphasize learners' bodily and sensory engagement in their learning process. One prominent challenge lies in translating high-level pedagogical principles of embodied cognition into effective design practices that can be implemented in educational settings and can accommodate specific educational topics (Macrine & Fugate, 2022). To address this issue, this research explores and proposes a conceptual, process-oriented design framework to aid designers in creating embodied learning experiences to deliver on learning objectives that often originate from those outside of the design team (e.g., educator, exhibit curator). This conceptual design framework draws insights from secondary research across education and design domains, incorporating design considerations from existing frameworks related to embodied learning (e.g., Horst, 2008; Black, et al., 2012; Antle & Wise, 2013; Melcer & Isbister, 2021; Tancredi, et al., 2022; Wiggins & McTighe, 2005) as well as the Double Diamond design process by the UK Design Council (Design Council, n.d.). This framework was further tested and refined by applying it to two design projects: “Sun & Earth” and “Dinosaur Explore”. This research-through-design approach (Frayling, 1993) helped the researcher to explore potential design challenges and map out the problem-solving process. Through these two design applications, the researcher describes how this design framework aids in the generation and specification of design ideas for embodied and interactive learning experiences. In addition to the framework, a set of design principles was generated, drawing from insights into embodied learning and reflections on the design process. The final deliverable of this research is a website housing the Design for Embodied Learning Experiences (D4E) Framework along with the associated design principles, theoretical foundations, real world examples, and the researchers’ own design practices. By disseminating this website, the researcher aims to empower practitioners, such as designers and educators, to create effective and enriching informal learning environments that leverage the potential of digital technologies through an embodied learning approach.Item Elevating Lived Experiences: Collectively Shaping the Future of Healthcare(The Ohio State University. Department of Design, 2024-08) Mallah Zadeh, MahkamehThe pandemic and the emergence of Long Covid symptoms have highlighted the critical importance of patient involvement and participation in healthcare. Individuals living with Long Covid, researchers, and healthcare providers have come together to understand the condition and address its challenges, which is uncommon in the traditionally hierarchical healthcare system. Despite these efforts, many voices and concerns remain unheard, revealing gaps in data, research pathways, empathy, and understanding. This isolation has driven some patients to seek a more active role in the healthcare setting. Learning from the stories and experiences of people living with Long Covid and extending it to Diabetes, this research aims to make these voices and stories more visible to the healthcare mainstream. By amplifying patients' voices and needs, the project seeks to foster collaboration among the researchers, patients, and providers silos in healthcare, enabling a better mutual understanding and ultimately creating a more equitable healthcare future. The study explores the integration of exploratory design research methods within a healthcare system that is currently focused on evidence-based research. By concentrating on the conditions of Diabetes and Long Covid, the research involves three key groups: patients, providers, and researchers. These groups represent the main silos in healthcare, whose collaboration could lead to improved patient outcomes and experiences. In-depth interviews were conducted to understand their current participation and collaboration efforts within the existing healthcare system. Based on the analysis of these interviews, a provocative potential solution, or 'provotype,' was designed to create a deeper understanding of the different groups' needs and behaviors. A series of surveys was conducted to gather feedback and initiate a dialogue in this space, leading to conclusions and future steps based on this feedback. One of the main findings is the creation of a card deck for design researchers working in healthcare, sharing the author's experiences and offering tips, recommendations, principles, and mindsets. Other findings emphasize the significance of combining exploratory design research with evidence-based research as complementary approaches in healthcare delivery and research. These findings highlight the gap between people's lived experiences and the care they receive, questioning the existing system's ability to meet their needs. The study showcases the potential of individuals living with chronic conditions to imagine diverse and impactful solutions beyond what currently exists. The conclusions drawn from this study call for further investigation into the potential of exploratory design research alongside evidence-based research. They underscore the benefits and value that lived experiences can add to improving service experiences and research quality within the healthcare system.Item Data for Healthy Communities: Development of a Supplemental High School Course(Academic Data Science Alliance, 2023-10) Kulp, Jessica T.This poster provides an overview of the development of a 3-week supplemental course for high school students entitled "Data for Healthy Communities”. The course will introduce students to the emerging field of Public Interest Technology by exploring how data science may be used to address topical and local public health issues. It will cover real-world uses of data in public health work and address common gaps in public health professionals' data literacy. The course design is informed by the work of a research team at The Ohio State University developing a workforce training program for Community Health Workers, and will, in turn, inform the development of a more comprehensive data science curriculum for high school students. The poster outlines the development of course goals, learning objectives, activities, and assessment tools, illustrates an example activity, and discusses next steps for the project.Item Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life(Duke University Press, 2024) Price, Margaret, 1969-Item The effect of sex and mating opportunity on ecological immunity in Brood X cicadas, data, supplemental data(Ethology Ecology & Evolution, 2024) Gershman, SusanItem Sparking Creative Prowess through a Peculiar Design Challenge: A Mocktail Design Charrette - Dataset(2023) Nickley, William; Proulx, SébastienThis dataset was the result of a survey from a recent experiment in mocktail design conducted with a group of industrial design students. This pedagogical strategy was devised to foster students’ creativity and confidence. After observing a level of creative deficit among the student body, we initiated an annual design charrette in 2021. Through the charrette, a short, sprint-like effort, we aimed to provide an exhilarating, low-risk space to foster students’ creative prowess. After two years, with interesting yet mitigated results where we observed students taking the assignment too seriously, at the expense of risk-taking, we looked for parameters that would more successfully support the goal of sparking a creative mindset. Inspired by speculative design methods, boundary objects, growth mindset, and self-efficacy theory, our most recent approach was to engage students with an uncanny topic - mocktails - to catalyze multi-level creative engagement.Item An Intersectional Lens(Ohio State University. Department of Design, 2023-08) Brooks, AshleyCommunity-driven civic environments, such as public spaces, have a major influence on personal development and well-being (Matei, 2017). But without inclusion of marginalized populations, some people risk being excluded, perpetuating cycles of inequality that limit understanding, collective collaboration, diverse inclusion, and social progression. When designed inclusively, community-driven civic environments can succeed at welcoming all kinds of people and needs regardless of age, race, gender, sexuality, or income (Latham & Layton, 2019). This thesis demonstrates a qualitative research experience that utilized co-design and service design approaches to curate a unique and inclusive design process that centered the wants and needs of Black and Indigenous Women of Color (BIWOC). Focusing on BIWOC experiences within public spaces led to contextual understanding of how they behaved and thought holistically, allowing their journey of spatial understanding and enjoyment to be considered through inclusive touchpoints. Through a series of interviews, surveys, and co-design sessions, American Black women shared and reflected upon their personal and professional experiences and collaborated to imagine what an inclusive space could be when they led the conversation. In conclusion, they created a variety of spatial offerings and service considerations that increased cultural representation, enhanced comprehensions of safety, fostered an environment of learning, and valued who they are holistically. It became evident that a lack of humanity could never be replaced by design aesthetics. Beyond these realizations, this research illuminated Black women as critical thinkers who are creative, sensually driven, self-aware, spiritual, and systems focused.Item An Intersectional Lens: Using Participatory Design to Redefine Inclusivity and Foster Belonging in Community-Driven Civic Environments with Black Indigenous Women of Color (BIWOC)(Ohio State University. Department of Design, 2023-08) Brooks, Ashley; Sanders, ElizabethCommunity-driven civic environments, such as public spaces, have a major influence on personal development and well-being (Delagran, 2016). But without inclusion of marginalized populations, some people risk being excluded, perpetuating cycles of inequality that limit understanding, collective collaboration, diverse inclusion, and social progression. When designed inclusively, community-driven civic environments can succeed at welcoming all kinds of people and needs regardless of age, race, gender, sexuality, or income (Latham & Layton, 2019). This thesis demonstrates a qualitative research experience that utilized co-design and service design approaches to curate a unique and inclusive design process that centered the wants and needs of Black and Indigenous Women of Color (BIWOC). Focusing on BIWOC experiences within public spaces led to contextual understanding of how they behaved and thought holistically, allowing their journey of spatial understanding and enjoyment to be considered through inclusive touchpoints. Through a series of interviews, surveys, and co-design sessions, American Black women shared and reflected upon their personal and professional experiences and collaborated to imagine what an inclusive space could be when they led the conversation. In conclusion, they created a variety of spatial offerings and service considerations that increased cultural representation, enhanced comprehensions of safety, fostered an environment of learning, and valued who they are holistically. It became evident that a lack of humanity could never be replaced by design aesthetics. Beyond these realizations, this research illuminated Black women as critical thinkers who are creative, sensually driven, self-aware, spiritual, and systems focused.Item Imagining Together: Sexual & Reproductive Futures(Ohio State University. Department of Design, 2023-08) Snyder, CamilleSexual and reproductive experiences, often unacknowledged or unspoken, exert a profound influence on various aspects of life, including relationships, careers, and the shape of our mutual futures, particularly for individuals assigned female at birth (AFAB). This research endeavors to explore the transformative potential that emerges when AFAB individuals are granted agency to speculate on the future; imagining, provoking, and dreaming into what could be. The study combined co-design and speculative design approaches to structure collaborative group sessions, during which study participants ultimately created 24 artifacts from the future related to contraception, sexual pleasure, and menstrual cycles; artifacts evidence participants' expressed perspectives on near and far futures. The study also involved focus groups to determine how to share the artifacts, considering questions like who should be invited, how should the artifacts be presented, and what is our intention in sharing? By embracing qualitative research methods, this study delves deep into the nuanced aspects of participants' dreams and fears about the future. The findings emphasize the significance of co-design and speculative design as complementary approaches in design research. They also highlight the capacity of AFAB individuals to imagine diverse and impactful futures beyond what currently exists. The conclusions drawn from this study call for further investigations into the synergistic potential of co-design and speculative design, contributing to a deeper understanding of the role of imagination in shaping future possibilities, particularly for complex, sensitive topics such as sexual and reproductive experiences.Item Supplementary Materials for "Roundup and immune challenge have different effects on a native field cricket and its introduced competitor"(Springer Nature, 2023) Mullins, Lydia; Brown, Dylan; Lovsey, Shelly; Bowers, Troy; Gershman, SusanAnimals face many natural challenges, and humans have added to this burden by applying potentially harmful herbicides and unintentionally introducing competitors. We examine the recently introduced Velafictorus micado Japanese burrowing cricket which shares the same microhabitat and mating season as the native Gryllus pennsylvanicus field cricket. In this study, we assess the combined effects of Roundup (glyphosate-based herbicide) and a lipopolysaccharide (LPS) immune challenge on both crickets. In both species, an immune challenge reduced the numbers of eggs that female laid, however, this effect was much larger in G. pennsylvanicus. Conversely, Roundup caused both species to increase egg production, potentially representing a terminal investment strategy. When exposed to both an immune challenge and herbicide, G. pennsylvanicus fecundity was harmed more than V. micado fecundity. Further, V. micado females laid significantly more eggs than G. pennsylvanicus, suggesting that introduced V. micado may have a competitive edge in fecundity over native G. pennsylvanicus. LPS and Roundup each had differing effects on male G. pennsylvanicus and V. micado calling effort. Overall, introduced male V. micado spent significantly more time calling than native G. pennsylvanicus, which could potentially facilitate the spread of this introduced species. Despite the population-level spread of introduced V. micado, in our study, this species did not outperform native G. pennsylvanicus in tolerating immune and chemical challenge. Although V. micado appears to possess traits that make this introduced species successful in colonizing new habitats, it may be less successful in traits that would allow it to outcompete a native species.Item A CURE for everyone: A guide to implementing Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences(The Ohio State University, 2023-05) Calède, Jonathan J.-M.In this book, I undertake a review of the literature on Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) and present original data from a survey of instructors at the Ohio State University. The main goal of this publication is to be a practical guide for teachers wishing to develop and implements this type of High-Impact Practice in their course. As such, I cover many aspects of the development of a CURE, including advice on research development, group formation and management, evaluation and grading, inclusive teaching, and assignment design. A large number of activity templates and resources accompany the text to facilitate classroom implementation.Item Cybernetics & Curriculum Design(The Ohio State University Libraries, 2023) Tilak, ShantanuIn this participatory design portfolio, I describe the theoretical framework, and provide a practical guide for a cybernetic curricular design approach applied to an educational psychology college class for preservice teachers. The first part describes how the two iterations of the curriculum were designed in a manner following Gordon Pask’s approach to cybernetics to create a technology-assisted collaborative environment, and Gregory Bateson’s idea on the double bind to make this environment informationally open, to allow students to transcend siloed communicative classroom systems to learn new ideas related to educational theory and practice from everyday life, popular culture, and the Internet. The second part describes tools/technologies, and activities used throughout the semester and contextualizes them within Paskian and Batesonian cybernetic frameworks. The third part provides a comprehensive week by week guide of the class schedule in the Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 sessions.Item Metagames 2023(The Ohio State University Libraries, 2023) Tilak, Shantanu; Audia, Claire; Bah, Issaga; Barta, Kate; Bulazo, Marina; Colvard, Brennan; Dzierwa, Noah; Ferretti, Sam; Fries, Braxton; Gehrke, Christopher; Gipson, Lillia; Greve, Colleen; Guo, Julia; Hammill, Sarah; Jaenke, Christopher; Jahn, Anna; Jayanthi, Kavya; Lencke, Megan; Marsco, Lily; Moonshower, Paige; Picha, Parker; Robek, Bridgette; Schumaker, Leigha; Souders, Kiersten; Stefani, Charlotte; Tenerowicz, Avery; Wachowski, Ayla; Ward, Landon; Woods, Anna; Woods, Nevin; Zalewski, LauraThis paper, co-authored by undergraduate students and their instructor part of an educational psychology seminar, describes a participatory curriculum design approach for preservice teacher education that focuses on the use of the principles of second-order cybernetics to teach about teaching and learning. Using elements of an Open Source Educational Processes framework, our Spring ESEPSY2309 section created project-based collective hive minds of preservice teachers, relying on a cybernetic approach at the crossroads of Gregory Bateson and Gordon Pask's theories. The classroom community used four innovative tool-mediated pillars to guide collaborative activity: 1) Live-chatting using the Reddit social media platform, 2) observation of the lives, strategies, and practices used by teachers and students in their own social networks through Soundcloud podcasting to expand their own perceptions of pedagogies and best practices that they could employ in their careers, 3) open-ended paper writing, exploring sources beyond the object language provided by the textbook through extensive dyadic conversations with the instructor, and 4) training in the use of the Alice 3 game creation tool for block programming enabling the accumulation of competence in designing classroom systems that may treat students these undergraduates would soon teach as active historical agents in learning environments, combining skills from varied subjects into transdisciplinary educational experiences. We showcase outcomes of our class projects using a narrative inquiry to describe podcast episodes, a topic network analysis to illustrate the expansive nature of Open Source writing activity, and a visual depiction of our class Alice 3 games.Item Two Children's Stories about Food Security(The Ohio State University Libraries, 2023) Glassman, Michael; Tilak, ShantanuItem BODIES(2022-04-26) Chaffee, Madison; Oberfield, Avery; Patterson, Danni; Regalo, Hope; Shook, Zoe; Stotlar, Jackson; Nisch-Quan, KamlinItem The 2022 Whole University Catalogue(The Ohio State University Libraries, 2022) Tilak, Shantanu; Allomong, Logan; Armstrong, Allyson; Ashbrook, Kristen; Cahill, Riley; Canales, Santino; Elser, Camryn; Fulton, Gray; Gomez, John; Gossman, Kara; Hochstetler, Emma; Hood, Leahandria; Lewis, Ellie; Liu, Haiqi; Lust, Allison; MacQueeney, Patrick; Mason, Elise; McKeown, Josiah; Negatu, Bemnet; Newland, Kylie; Patton, Briana; Penrod, Jordyn; Schrock, Kendra; Smith, Myranda; Surber, Charlotte; Svoboda, Jayna; Underwood, Allison; Walls, Keller; Widmer, Michaela; Wu, LingfengEach chapter is a co-generated tool, created by the students and instructor of ESEPSY2309, using visual storyboarding and scholarly written perspectives. The papers were collaboratively edited in a Study Hall activity in the last five weeks of class.Item Moving across Differences: How Students Engage LGBTQ+ Themes in a High School Literature Class(State University of New York Press, 2022) Blackburn, Mollie V., 1969–Item Afro-Sweden: Becoming Black in a Color-Blind Country(University of Minnesota Press, 2022) Skinner, Ryan ThomasItem “Where am I?” A Critical Discourse Analysis of Religious Representation in Indonesia(The International Academic Forum (IAFOR), 2021-12-18) Dellarosa, MarethaThe Indonesian Ministry of Education has re-examined the Indonesian curriculum to address the present challenges, including how to promote tolerance to students who live in a multicultural country. Textbooks and characters presented in Indonesian elementary textbooks, Buku Siswa, are part of continuous revision. However, there is insufficient consideration put to the characters presented, including which characters are included and excluded. In fact, understanding which characters are presented means that people learn how to construct phenomenon. As a country with diverse beliefs, Indonesian education system inserts religion as a mandatory subject, aims to promote the values of diversity. Nevertheless, the goal of such implementation does not always meet the outcomes since there are conflicts that occur due to religious beliefs. The study aims to examine power relationships and the ideological nature of discourse that is represented by seven characters in Buku Siswa by utilizing Critical Discourse Analysis. Buku Siswa is a series of elementary school textbooks that has different levels and themes. Findings reveal that characters that represent minority religious groups are missing from learning materials, which presents them unequally compared to characters that presents the majority of religious groups. I argue that representation is a way of respecting people.Item Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade: English Stationers and the Commodification of Botany(Cambridge University Press, 2022) Neville, Sarah