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Item Hawthorne Community Center Project(Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2010-04-09) Hong, Young-BokSupporting neighborhood-led comprehensive community development strategy, 10 graduate students in the People Centered Design Research Methods Course (V511) will apply participatory design methods and develop a series of engagement tools that will enable people to participate in community development process by revealing their needs from multiple dimensions. The whole process of participatory design aims to develop a better understanding of community needs through design participation. This participation will results in a series of actionable insights for the center to better meet the needs of community members. Purpose of Research To understand the user experience of members of the Hawthorne Community Center, specifically the experiences of working families, ESL students, senior citizens, the homeless, and teens. Working families: To understand the current interactive experience between Parent and child: strengthening parent/child relationships and interactions Children: empowering social and mental skills of children at different ages Parents: supporting the individual identities of parents ESL students: To understand on how language barriers lead to reliance and/or empowerment in the users’ lives Senior citizens: To understand how the seniors’ reliance of the community center and how that changes as they age, and also how empowered they are and this is affected by belonging to the center Homeless: To understand the clients of the Rapid Rehousing and Homeless Prevention program based on their intangible, emotional needs and their physical, tangible needs Teens: Their current personal experience at school and the after- school programItem Understanding Peer Observation(2014-02) Gracia, Ana K.; Hong, Young-Bok; Sanematsu, Helen; Napier, PamelaThe peer observation process is implemented to evaluate teachers in their classrooms. On the other hand, this process seems to open a door for teachers to come together and learn from each other. With this interest of exploring the potential learning perspective on this process, the researcher sees the opportunity to implement a participatory design research. A participatory design approach involves the engagement of teachers (in this case) within the process of problem exploration and solution development, rather than having teachers only as the subject of exploration. This research covers the process of the participatory approach that allowed the understanding of the issue. Within this process, it is possible to see how the researcher facilitates the participants to externalize their knowledge and experiences in the peer observation process, as well, this research covers methodologies implemented for the analysis and synthesis of the information. Through the implementation of the participatory design process, teachers were able to identify barriers that kept them from sharing as teachers, as well as to identify opportunities to enable them to learn from each other and forming learning communities.