“why are they not responding to critique?”: a student-centered construction of the crit
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A STUDENT-CENTERED CONSTRUCTION OF THE CRIT
COLIN M. GRAY Iowa State University
“WHY ARE THEY NOT RESPONDING
TO CRITIQUE?”
CRAIG D. HOWARD Texas A&M University—Texarkana
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CRITIQUEis central to design education
[Anthony, 1991; Dannels & Martin, 2008; Klebesadel & Kornetsky, 2009; Parnell, Sara, Doidge, & Parsons, 2012;
Schön, 1987; Shulman, 2005]
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CRITIQUEis central to design education
[Anthony, 1991; Dannels & Martin, 2008; Klebesadel & Kornetsky, 2009; Parnell, Sara, Doidge, & Parsons, 2012;
Schön, 1987; Shulman, 2005]
instructor-centric
curriculum-centric
power-laden
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[Anthony, 1991; Blythman, Orr, & Blair, 2007; Dutton, 1991; Gray, 2013, 2014; Gray & Howard 2014;
Webster, 2007; Willenbrock, 1991]
CRITICAL FRAMING
what if we looked at critique in a
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CRITIQUE & CRITICAL PEDAGOGY
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CRITIQUE & CRITICAL PEDAGOGY
FROM student as tabula rasa
TO student as emerging proto-professional
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CONTEXT
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CONTEXT
Human-Computer Interaction Master’s program
Introductory project-based design course
Final project was based on the 2014 ACM SIGCHI Student Design Competition
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CLASSROOM
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CLASSROOM =Physical Space [~60 student capacity; 8 screens; decentralized layout]
Virtual Space [Facebook; Google Docs; SMS]
+
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MULTIMODAL CRITIQUE
multiple critique conversations occur concurrently around a single designed artifact (or presentation of that
artifact), in both physical and virtual modes, with multiple classes or groupings of interlocutors
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FIRST-YEAR STUDENT
FIRST-YEAR STUDENT (PRESENTING)
INSTRUCTOR
PROJECTOR/SCREEN
WHITEBOARD
MENTOR (SECOND-YEAR STUDENT)
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LIVE MENTOR CRITIQUE IN GOOGLE DOC
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verbally
virtually
COMMUNICATION DURING PRESENTATION
virtually
verbally
verbally
COMMUNICATION DURING CRITIQUE
verbally
COMMUNICATION PATTERNS
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ANALYSIS TOOL
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GOOGLE DOC BACKCHANNEL# Turns Average Words
per turn (SD)Total words # Turns Average Words
per turn (SD)Total words
Team A 37 46.4054 (45.6369) 1717 13 5.1538
(4.4695) 67
Team B 26 25.8462 (21.6079) 672 69 7.3043
(5.7441) 504
Team C 38 37.1579 (28.9496) 1412 135 7.1852
(6.6968) 970
TOTAL 101 37.6337 (35.5321) 3801 217 7.1014
(6.3113) 1541
DISCOURSE CHARACTERISTICS
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PRESENTATION STUDENT CRITIQUE MENTOR CRITIQUE
INSTRUCTOR CRITIQUE
GOOGLE DOC
CRITIQUE STRUCTURE
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TEAM A TEAM B TEAM C
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TEAM A
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TEAM A
BACKCHANNEL BC [9:34]BV: Why are they not responding to critique?BC [9:35]RO: no clue maybe trying to get the most critique?RK: I susepect they just want more to write down BQ: i think to get more comments in RK: LOL SUSEPECT UD: thats fine. RI: That was my thought. (+BQ)BV: But I feel like they have no meat behind all of this—leaving too many unaswered questions RO: yeahRK: agreedBQ: it flopped :(RI: I agree. It’s they’re funeralRO: awe
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TEAM A
GOOGLE DOC GD [9:40] RK: What is your core? (BQ +infinity)(+1 TA) (+Zen Dog) (+1 UD, +1 VE) (+1 NI, addendum: I just completely don’t get it, the entire project doesn’t make sense to me anymore) Remember the RESEARCH!!! (especially if you are aiming for CHI) (+500000 RK)
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TEAM A
CLASSROOM CL [9:48] NI: This is not ___. So, we’ve been talking, we’ve been talking in our doc. And, we kinda wanna, I have been elected as it were, [laugh] because it is kinda harsh. We don’t—we lost your core. We have no idea what your project is about anymore. We can’t figure it out. We just don’t get it. We don’t see the core anymore. And your presentation has almost no rationale or research to get us on board with what you're doing. We don’t know why these things exist, what's motivating them, what the point it, or why we should know more about it. Um, [long pause].
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TEAM A TEAM B TEAM C
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TEAM C
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TEAM C
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TEAM C
GOOGLE DOC GD [9:59] RK: How does the texture change to wood? Is your design to give people acid? (+1 TL +1 BV) (Oh shit, it’s real! http://www.disneyresearch.com/project/revel-programming-the-sense-of-touch/ TL) (RK: I wish you guys would have said this before. The whole time I kept thinking about how impossible this was going to be, and honestly it detracted from the presentation for me. I have never heard of these things.)
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TEAM C
GOOGLE DOC GD [10:03] BV: Perceptual cameras do not offer resistance for me to actually feel. And that is a ton of tech I have never heard of needs some deeper explanation. (+1 TA too much hand waving is bad? the next step after designing is implementation, how are you going to do it..) RK: What are Revel and Aireal? [GD comment, 10:04] RO: disney experience tech[GD comment, 10:04] RK: Did they say that?[GD comment, 10:04] RO: nope http://www.disneyresearch.com/research-areas/human-computer-interaction
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TEAM C
BACKCHANNEL BC [10:06] RK: unfortunately I don't think it was stellar because since it was backwards, the whole time I kept thinking NO FUCKING WAY. WTF ARE YOU GUYS DOING ARE OYU ON CRACK?BQ: agreed if they had clarified how this happens at the moment, i would have listened more NI: I wouldn't say backwards, necessarily, I think it would have been possible to tell that story while interspersing some of this argumentation so that it's not all one thing then all the other.RI: It is a very... psychedelic experience
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TEAM C
GOOGLE DOC GD [10:06] TL: I think the “presentation preview” slide at the beginning was brilliant. You could have very easily leveraged this to better include your research early on. Make your research the equivalent of the “turn off your cell phones” announcement. Whatever it may be, but briefly explaining that “the tech you are about to see is fantastical, but be assured - it is feasible.” (RK: super awesome wicked great suggestion)
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TEAM C
CLASSROOM CL [10:19] TL: [...] And then also, the second critique is more of a presentation structure. You chose to have the technology explanation at the end. And—which that's definitely one way to do it. But I know for a lot of mentors, what we experienced was, when you started describing like touching the walls and feeling things, like at that point, one of the comments like was are you giving ___ before they walk in? [laughter] And to me, and to several others, that sort of discredited the rest of the presentation because we just had no idea how that was even possible. And when you mention that and you look it up, it's very clearly possible and it's definitely something worth pursuing. [...]
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[from Gray, 2014]
CONTENT INFERENCE FIELD
CONTENT INFERENCE FIELD
STRUCTURES
COMMUNICATIVE ACTS
ROLES
INTERACTIVE SETTINGS
TYPIFICATIONS
CRITICAL QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS [IN 60 SECONDS]
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TYPIFICATION less permeable; specifies norms, audiences, rhythm
ROLE more permeable; can cross typifications
[Carspecken, 1996; Carspecken & MacGillivray, 1998]
CONTENT INFERENCE FIELD
CONTENT INFERENCE FIELD
STRUCTURES
COMMUNICATIVE ACTS
ROLES
INTERACTIVE SETTINGS
TYPIFICATIONS
CRITICAL QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS [IN 60 SECONDS]
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VIRTUAL GD: POISED
PROFESSIONAL
PHYSICAL: INSTRUCTIONAL
TUTOR
VIRTUAL BC: RELAXED
PROFESSIONAL
RK: unfortunately I don't think it was stellar because since it was backwards,
the whole time I kept thinking NO FUCKING WAY. WTF ARE YOU GUYS
DOING ARE OYU ON CRACK?
TYPIFICATIONS
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VIRTUAL GD: POISED
PROFESSIONAL
PHYSICAL: INSTRUCTIONAL
TUTOR
VIRTUAL BC: RELAXED
PROFESSIONAL
BV: Perceptual cameras do not offer resistance for me to actually feel. […]too much hand waving is bad? the next step after designing is implementation, how are
you going to do it..)
TYPIFICATIONS
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VIRTUAL GD: POISED
PROFESSIONAL
PHYSICAL: INSTRUCTIONAL
TUTOR
VIRTUAL BC: RELAXED
PROFESSIONAL
And to me, and to several others, that sort of discredited the rest of the
presentation because we just had no idea how that was even possible.
TYPIFICATIONS
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DISCUSSION
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