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Design Communication and Collaboration

Rudi Stouffs, Jan Kooistra, Bige Tunçer, Evren Akar

DRN 2005, Eindhoven

Bige Tunçer, Evren Akar

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InfoBase

Start: 2000Funding: August 2002 – December 2004Interdisciplinary collaboration

Goal: Teaching students how to deal with metadatain the context of their learning processesfor the exchange of knowledge and informationwithin a professional community of a network of students,

teachers and researchers

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Metadata – what is it?

metadata• title• type and format• author information• action moments• thumbnail• keywords• access information• access rights• grades• ratings• comments

InfoBase MediatedDiscourse

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Assumptions

• students learn from each other• both individual and group work• upon own initiative and under supervision• including reflection and feedback

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InfoBase – goal(s)

Goal: Teaching students how to deal with metadatain the context of their learning processesfor the exchange of knowledge and informationwithin a professional community of a network of students,

teachers and researchers

• research related

• didactic

• technical

• strategic

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Goal – research related

A scientific approachto deal with information and communicationthrough the application of metadata• scientific evaluation

The metadata system as complex adaptive system• the system is the means as well as the result of social

processes• flexibility – changing circumstances• robustness – value matrix

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Goal – didactic

Development of a methodto add, exchange and manage

metadata in the context of learning

processes

Implementation in a learning path

with increasing responsibility for the student

• programmed instructions,• network exercises and • own management and

community forming

BSc1+2submit

search/retrieve

BSc4analyzereuse

BSc5keep

discard

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Goal – technical

A digital environmentfor the support of a learning

path

with which students canstore, exchange and manage the (scientific) information that they collect and produce,

individually, in groups, and collectively,

in an independent manner,

with the help of metadata

InfoBase StudentWork

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Goal – strategic

To encourage students through the systemto learn from each other and to learn to work together as

young professionalsby offering them the possibility to compare their

assignments and designs directly and immediately

Teach students to deal with the relativity of the system

and with the paradox that a database loses informative quality when it is cleaned up to be a “neat” database

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How it works

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The design process as information process

information process

searchinggenerating

communicatingstoring

distributingexchanging

validatingdiscarding

metadata qualities

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Correspondence in the information process

metadata data

quality(four dimensions)

lays claim to

to assess/acknowledgeclaims

correspondence

gain

s

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CLAIMSConstruct

Emotion

Relations

Factsthe influence of the

design on the user and vice versa

users /culture

feeling /opinion

idea / building

type

components /characteristics

the emotion that the design elicits

the factual elements that one uses to

express the idea

the idea thatone tries to

represent in the design

KeySet – universally applicable metadata system

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• construct: It means… It is meant to be…

• relations: They know more about it

• facts: It is… objective

• emotion: I find… subjective

sun is shining; no precipitation; 80º Fahrenheit; gentle breeze.

people listening to the radio

weather report

oh no! hot again!nice indeed, let’s go!

The use of metadata – exampleNice weather for the beach!

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Practical example – BSc2 workshop

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CLAIMSConstruct

Emotion

Relations

Facts

the influence of the design on the user

and vice versa

users /culture

feeling /opinion

idea / building

type

components /characteristics

the emotion that the design elicits

the factual elements that one uses to

express the idea

the idea thatone tries to

represent in the design

Practical example – metadata

the facts roof detail •

façade detail •other constructive detail •aluminum and concrete •

steel and stone •wood and glass •

… •

the relationsreference detail for architects

and structural engineers

the construct• elements joined on a plane–• joined on a line–• joined at one point–• –in the plane of the element• –at the corner of the element• –between the elements

the emotion• strong• robust• beautiful• …

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StudentWork module – submit

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StudentWork module – confirm

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StudentWork module – success

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StudentWork module – search

InfoBase StudentWork

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Studentwork evaluation – results

“What was the advantage for you of looking at the work at others?”

• inspiration / ideas• comparison of speed or level• learned something• insight related to the relativity of metadata

• “you want to know why that person chose just those claims”

• “you see what others think about these keywords”• “everyone describes his/her detail very differently”• “my detail had another context”

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Other applications

• We developed a number of applications using the InfoBase system

• Support communication• Knowledge management

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Design Analysis Network

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MediatedDiscourse

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Blob Inventory Project