Observing Architectural Engineering Graduate Students' Design Optimization Behaviors Using Eye-Tracking Methods

Autor/inn/en	Bunt, Stephanie; Berdanier, Catherine G. P.; Brown, Nathan C.
Titel	Observing Architectural Engineering Graduate Students' Design Optimization Behaviors Using Eye-Tracking Methods
Quelle	In: Journal of Civil Engineering Education, 149 (2023) 4 PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Bunt, Stephanie) ORCID (Berdanier, Catherine G. P.) ORCID (Brown, Nathan C.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2643-9107
DOI	10.1061/JCEECD.EIENG-1889
Schlagwörter	Architecture; Engineering Education; Building Design; Student Behavior; Eye Movements; Graduate Students + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Architektur; Ingenieurausbildung; Baugestaltung; Student behaviour; Schülerverhalten; Augenbewegung; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin
Abstract	Parametric optimization techniques allow building designers to pursue multiple performance objectives, which can benefit the overall design. However, the strategies used by architecture and engineering graduate students when working with optimization tools are unclear, and ineffective computational design procedures may limit their success as future designers. In response, this research identifies several designerly behaviors of graduate students when responding to a conceptual building design optimization task. It uses eye-tracking, screen recording, and empirical methods to code their behaviors following the situated function-behaviour-structure (FBS) framework. From these data streams, three different types of design iterations emerge: one by the designer alone, one by the optimizer alone, and one by the designer incorporating feedback from the optimizer. Based on the timing and frequency of these loops, student participants were characterized as completing partial, crude, or complete optimization cycles while developing their designs. This organization of optimization techniques establishes reoccurring strategies employed by developing designers, which can encourage future pedagogical approaches that empower students to incorporate complete optimization cycles while improving their designs. It can also be used in future research studies to establish clear links between types of design optimization behavior and design quality. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01