Browsing by Author "Herron School of Art and Design"

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    Art Nights: Reimagining Professional Development as a Ritual
    (National Art Education Association, 2023) Willcox, Libba; Herron School of Art and Design
    Art teachers’ need for connection, passion for artmaking, desire for mentoring, and quest for renewal led me to ask, what happens if we reimagine professional development as ritualized artistic practice? What would occur if our ritual was collaborative and intergenerational? How might ritualized professional development aid the quest for renewal? Pulling imagery and quotes from a larger qualitative and arts-based research study (Willcox, 2017), this visual essay shares what happened when an intergenerational group of art teachers met and engaged in artistic inquiry about their teaching practice. Specifically, it weaves together imagery and quotes to illustrate how our ritual, art nights, recognized and celebrated the everyday tasks of art teachers, connected isolated and alienated art teachers, replenished the emotionally exhausted, and privileged the practice of art making.
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    Art Therapy Impact on Aging Adults’ Quality of Life: Leisure and Learning
    (T&F, 2022) Misluk, Eileen; Rush, Haley; Herron School of Art and Design
    Quality of life (QoL) is influenced by physical and psychological health, but includes subjective qualities that are inherent in social and cognitive processes necessary for healthy aging and overall well-being. A quantitative study analyzed the effects of art therapy for 14 aging adults utilizing the Brunnsviken Brief Quality of Life Scale (BBQ) at pre, mid, and post 32-week study. Regression analysis showed significant positive changes in two areas: Importance of Learning and Leisure. Participating in art therapy increased the importance of learning and leisure, that are influential factors in QoL for aging adults. This demonstrates that art therapy has the potential to support healthy aging.
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    Blending science and art: An educational perspective
    (2019) Balkir, Nur; Saher, Konca; Mihci, Gurkan; Herron School of Art and Design
    Art and design education enable students to find creative and logical solutions to various design problems. The use of materials, constructive analysis, craftmanship, and originality are some key criteria in the process. Size and dimensionality, the proportion analysis, expression integrity, substantiality, and presentability can vary depending on the project and the context. As one of the methods used to provide targeted experience and learning in art and design education, interdisciplinary work presents a right ground for complex design issues. The workshop we carried out together with the Tubitak National Metrology Institution (UME) named “Art’s Metrology, Metrology’s Art” aimed to transform art, design, and science together into a product. As rational, natural, and appropriate connections can be established between art and science, students were asked to develop a method to meet the objectives and criteria of both around a certain conceptual focus. An important inclusive of the workshop was to have students observe, get informed, and engage in dialogue and ultimately increase their curiosity about a certain mechanism outside of their studies. The group dynamic in the process of creating three-dimensional and displayable works within a scheduled time was supported by a scientist from the metrology department, three art and design instructors, Konca Şaher, Nur Balkır, and Gürkan Mıhçı from Kadir Has University. The finished works were then exhibited in the Tubitak-UME in Gebze compound. This study, which blends science and art, provided students with the opportunity to experiment with a science field, and to develop their predictions about their own disciplines. The paper will present the development and the outcome of the workshop.
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    Co-Design of a Mobile App For Care Partners Who Manage Medications For People Living With Dementia
    (Oxford University Press, 2024-12-31) Werner, Nicole; Ganci, Aaron; Patel, Himalaya; Thuemling, Teresa; Holden, Richard; Herron School of Art and Design
    For unpaid care partners of community-dwelling people living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD), medication management is effortful and time-consuming work that often continues over several years. Although this work may be eased by mobile application software (apps), current consumer apps underserve care partners’ needs. Through co-design workshops, our objective was to identify the user requirements for a mobile app supporting at-home medication management for people with ADRD. We conducted five 1-hour virtual co-design workshops with current and recent ADRD care partners. Care partners described their difficulties with medication management, then proposed ideal end-states by hand-drawing storyboards. We co-reflected on care partners’ descriptions and proposals, chose the app’s necessary functions, and digitally sketched corresponding user-facing features. After reviewing the sketches, care partners self-reported attitudes toward the proposed features. We ranked features by desirability, then created a digital user interface prototype. Care partners reviewed the prototype and self-reported adoption intent on a scale from 1 to 5. Seven care partners participated, ages 56-75 (Mdn=63), with 3-14 years’ care-partner experience (Mdn=5.5). Elicited requirements included tracking medication administration, recording behavioral changes, instructing other care partners, and briefing healthcare professionals. The user interface prototype included a medication checklist, observation journal, and contacts management. Care partners self-reported moderately high adoption intent (M=4.2, SD=0.9). By supporting both short- and long-term information needs, the proposed mobile app promotes shared awareness among ADRD care partners and healthcare professionals. This work is foundational to developing the app and assessing usability and utility in situ.
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    Correction: Investigating the Best Practices for Engagement in Remote Participatory Design: Mixed Methods Analysis of 4 Remote Studies With Family Caregivers
    (JMIR, 2024-12-31) Jolliff, Anna; Holden, Richard J.; Valdez, Rupa; Coller, Ryan J.; Patel, Himalaya; Zuraw, Matthew; Linden, Anna; Ganci, Aaron; Elliott, Christian; Werner, Nicole E.; Herron School of Art and Design
    [This corrects the article DOI: 10.2196/60353.].
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    Enhancing narrative clinical guidance with computer-readable artifacts: Authoring FHIR implementation guides based on WHO recommendations
    (Elsevier, 2021) Shivers, Jennifer; Amlung, Joseph; Ratanaprayul, Natschja; Rhodes, Bryn; Biondich, Paul; Herron School of Art and Design
    Introduction: Narrative clinical guidelines often contain assumptions, knowledge gaps, and ambiguities that make translation into an electronic computable format difficult. This can lead to divergence in electronic implementations, reducing the usefulness of collected data outside of that implementation setting. This work set out to evolve guidelines-based data dictionaries by mapping to HL7 Fast Health Interoperability Resources (FHIR) and semantic terminology, thus progressing toward machine-readable guidelines that define the minimum data set required to support family planning and sexually transmitted infections. Material and methods: The data dictionaries were first structured to facilitate mapping to FHIR and semantic terminologies, including ICD-10, SNOMED-CT, LOINC, and RxNorm. FHIR resources and codes were assigned to data dictionary terms. The data dictionary and mappings were used as inputs for a newly developed tool to generate FHIR implementation guides. Results: Implementation guides for core data requirements for family planning and sexually transmitted infections were created. These implementation guides display data dictionary content as FHIR resources and semantic terminology codes. Challenges included the use of a two-dimensional spreadsheet to facilitate mapping, the need to create FHIR profiles and resource extensions, and applying FHIR to a data dictionary that was created with a user interface in mind. Conclusions: Authoring FHIR implementation guides is a complex and evolving practice, and there are limited examples for this groundbreaking work. Moving toward machine-readable guidelines by mapping to FHIR and semantic terminologies requires a thorough understanding of the context and use of terminology, an applied information model, and other strategies for optimizing the creation and long-term management of implementation guides. Next steps for this work include validation and, eventually, real-world application. The process for creating the data dictionary and for generating implementation guides should also be improved to prepare for this expanding work.
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    Finding My Way: Using Visual Journals to Forge a Path of Resilience and Resistance
    (Penn State Libraries Open Publishing, 2023-09-06) Kulinski, Alexa R.; Herron School of Art and Design
    Over the last four years of my K-12 visual arts teaching career, I faithfully kept visual journals, filling them with stories of my experiences in the classroom. What initially began as an experiment as I searched for a tool to help me navigate new challenges within a public school system, eventually led me to realize that my visual journals were a valuable resource to better understand myself as a teacher, my place within the system, and a resource for resilience. In this article, I use narrative and arts-based approaches to explore the ways I leveraged visual journals as a tool for resilience by integrating humor, fostering a sense of accomplishment and self-efficacy, as well as retaking ownership of my journey to fight back. Through sharing this narrative I hope to illustrate some of the ways visual journals can help arts educators find resilience and strength to resist during challenging times.
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    The impact of design on research teams in health services: A case study of the significance of the design artifact for interdisciplinary research and the generation of theoretical and applied lines of inquiry
    (John Benjamins, 2017-01-01) Sanematsu, Helen; Cripe, Larry D.; Herron School of Art and Design
    The development of patient communication tools in health services research often requires the skills of a designer who will give the tool its final, usable form. However, research teams frequently overlook the demands of implementation and focus instead on the delivery of content to the patient. In the study considered here, shared decision making in cancer treatment research was initiated by an interdisciplinary team without the participation of a designer. Once a designer began working on the team, the benefits she brought to the production of the designed artifact were evident. Design improved the team’s effectiveness through better communication, and allowed for further studies based on application and theory. Researchers responded positively to design and saw the potential for its application to a range of health research.
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    In Search of the Khutugtu’s Monastery: The Site and Its Heritage
    (University of Hawaii, 2019-11) Chuluun, Sampildondovin; Herron School of Art and Design
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    Investigating the Best Practices for Engagement in Remote Participatory Design: Mixed Methods Analysis of 4 Remote Studies With Family Caregivers
    (JMIR, 2024-12-03) Jolliff, Anna; Holden, Richard J.; Valdez, Rupa; Coller, Ryan J.; Patel, Himalaya; Zuraw, Matthew; Linden, Anna; Ganci, Aaron; Elliott, Christian; Werner, Nicole E.; Herron School of Art and Design
    Background: Digital health interventions are a promising method for delivering timely support to underresourced family caregivers. The uptake of digital health interventions among caregivers may be improved by engaging caregivers in participatory design (PD). In recent years, there has been a shift toward conducting PD remotely, which may enable participation by previously hard-to-reach groups. However, little is known regarding how best to facilitate engagement in remote PD among family caregivers. Objective: This study aims to (1) understand the context, quality, and outcomes of family caregivers' engagement experiences in remote PD and (2) learn which aspects of the observed PD approach facilitated engagement or need to be improved. Methods: We analyzed qualitative and quantitative data from evaluation and reflection surveys and interviews completed by research and community partners (family caregivers) across 4 remote PD studies. Studies focused on building digital health interventions for family caregivers. For each study, community partners met with research partners for 4 to 5 design sessions across 6 months. After each session, partners completed an evaluation survey. In 1 of the 4 studies, research and community partners completed a reflection survey and interview. Descriptive statistics were used to summarize quantitative evaluation and reflection survey data, while reflexive thematic analysis was used to understand qualitative data. Results: In 62.9% (83/132) of evaluations across projects 1-3, participants described the session as "very effective." In 74% (28/38) of evaluations for project 4, participants described feeling "extremely satisfied" with the session. Qualitative data relating to the engagement context identified that the identities of partners, the technological context of remote PD, and partners' understanding of the project and their role all influenced engagement. Within the domain of engagement quality, relationship-building and co-learning; satisfaction with prework, design activities, time allotted, and the final prototype; and inclusivity and the distribution of influence contributed to partners' experience of engagement. Outcomes of engagement included partners feeling an ongoing interest in the project after its conclusion, gratitude for participation, and a sense of meaning and self-esteem. Conclusions: These results indicate high satisfaction with remote PD processes and few losses specific to remote PD. The results also demonstrate specific ways in which processes can be changed to improve partner engagement and outcomes. Community partners should be involved from study inception in defining the problem to be solved, the approach used, and their roles within the project. Throughout the design process, online tools may be used to check partners' satisfaction with design processes and perceptions of inclusivity and power-sharing. Emphasis should be placed on increasing the psychosocial benefits of engagement (eg, sense of community and purpose) and increasing opportunities to participate in disseminating findings and in future studies.