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Item 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.Item Listening through seeing: Using design methods to learn about the health perceptions of Garden on the Go® customers(2014-04-11) Sanematsu, Helen; Hong, Youngbok; Cole, Lisa; Zollinger, TerrellThe goal of this project is to apply an innovative approach to gathering beliefs and attitudes of an inner city population in a more valid and reliable way than traditional data collection methods. This community based research study will focus on dietary risk factors for obesity, diabetes type 2, and cardiovascular disease in underserved communities. Our study assesses what health means to the underserved Garden on the Go® clients and how they define a healthy diet. Garden on the Go®, a signature obesity prevention effort, is Indiana University Health’s year-round mobile produce delivery program providing fresh, affordable produce to Marion County neighborhoods in need. We build upon previous research conducted with Garden on the Go® to enhance the effectiveness of this intervention and provide valuable information that other groups may use to improve the impact of their efforts in meeting the health needs of similar communities.Item Team Directed, Project Based Education: A Case Study of an Entrepreneurial, Trans-Disciplinary, Design Studio Abroad(2007) Sanematsu, HelenThis is a report from the trenches. This article offers a critique of a pilot project undertaken by Art Center College of Design, in Pasadena, California. In the summer of 2005, I (along with 1 other Art Center instructor) accompanied 14 Art Center students to participate in a unique, trans-disciplinary, design and project based “start-up” studio in Copenhagen, Denmark. The 14 design students came from various fields (the trans-disciplinary part), who were challenged to produce a professional project (the design and project based part), with no pre-existing working structure (the start-up studio part). How did this project work? What was its outcome? How did its structure emerge? How did we deal with decision-making, establish common goals, insure progress, and satisfy our client, our school, our students, and ourselves as instructors? And what lessons were learned? This is our story, told in 3 parts, with 15 key points for those attempting similar projects.Item Listening to Patients and Talking to Doctors: A Case for Design in Medicine, & A Call to Action(2014-03) Sanematsu, Helen; Wiehe, Sarah E.This paper describes how design can work at a fundamental level to improve health in the United States. It argues for a design application that levels the playing field between the doctor and the patient in a way that re-establishes the person as the center of medical advancement. It uses the inclusion of a design research oriented Patient Engagement Core within a current study at the Indiana University School of Medicine as a way to demonstrate the relevance of design to health research. We touch upon the research environment established by the National Institutes of Health as a driver for the relevance of design in medicine, and finally, we suggest that designers use their visual communication and design research skills within health research to increase its relevancy to patients and the population, and ‘make the science stick’ through better understanding of patient perspectives. We assert that by entering discourse in health at this foundational stage we contribute to a new understanding of what health is, who might contribute to its improvement, who determines the relevancy of research, and how such research is used.Item Fun with Facebook: The Impact of Focus Groups on the Development of Awareness Campaigns for Adolescent Health(2011-02) Sanematsu, HelenThis project presents a model for developing effective communication by directly engaging designers with their adolescent audience. By conducting focus groups with local youth, we wanted to learn about 1) attitudes and prior knowledge about the areas identified in Indiana's Adolescent Health Plan, and 2) consumption of media (how they consume popular culture and current events) and preferences in programming (what they consume—favorite shows, videos, music, etc.). An additional aspect of this project was the capacity of the design team to interpret and utilize focus group data. A related poster presentation is available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1805/4599Item Fun with Facebook: The Impact of Focus Groups on the Development of Awareness Campaigns for Adolescent Health (Poster)(2011) Sanematsu, Helen; Woodcox, Stephanie; Rickert, Vaughn I.Poster presentation regarding adolescent health and media consumption for the 2011 Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine Conference.Item Implementation of a Journal Prototype for Pregnant and Parenting Adolescents(2014-10) Bute, Jennifer J.; Comer, Karen; Lauten, Kathryn M.; Sanematsu, Helen; Moore, Courtney M.; Lynch, Dustin; Chumbler, Neale R.Teenage pregnancy and childbearing remain pressing public health issues that have garnered attention from public health officials and social services agencies. This paper reports on the initial implementation and formative evaluation of a journaling program used as a means of communicating health information to pregnant and parenting adolescents (young women age 15-19) while also providing participants with a means of self-expression. The journaling prototype was implemented in a community-based agency in the Midwest by Family Support Specialists (FSSs) who made home visits on a monthly basis to assist pregnant and parenting adolescents (n = 52) with successful family planning and public health education. A mixed method approach of qualitative (analysis of journals, field notes, and responses of semi-structured interviews with FSSs) and quantitative (questionnaires from pregnant and parenting adolescent respondents) data with purposive sampling was employed to evaluate the implementation of the journaling intervention. Twenty of the 52 study participants were pregnant when the journaling intervention was implemented, while 32 were not pregnant, but recently had a child and were currently parenting. Two core themes emerged from analysis of the data after the implementation of the journals: (1) usefulness of the journal and responsiveness to participants' information needs and (2) functionality challenges. The results offer practical starting points to tailor the implementation of journaling in other contexts. Further, areas for improvement emerged regarding the distribution timeline for the journal and the content of the journal itself. As such, we discuss the lessons learned through this collaborative project and suggest opportunities for future phases of the journal intervention.Item Performing Pregnancy: Young Moms-to-Be and the Public Performance of Self-Esteem and Support(2011-05) Sanematsu, HelenThis paper describes the current development of an interactive community health education piece that targets young, pregnant women using an interactive wall. Foregrounding the pregnant form of the women, and working within the constraints of conventional media, we attempt to reverse the stigma associated with pregnancy in the lower end of the age range through positive and playful messages that give voice to the child-to-be and enlist the help and support of others.Item Street Vending and Design Thinking: A Provocation(2011) Sernsukskul, Sareena; Sanematsu, HelenThe spontaneity of make/do culture of street vendors in Bangkok is an example of the practice of integrative thinking and contextual praxis that predates and parallels the postmodern integrative and contextual advocacies of Design Thinking. It is materialized as resourcefulness and flexibility in the eclectic creation of vending stalls whether mobile or otherwise, and also as the improvisational intervention of street vendors in public space. It taps into the indigenous cultural condition of Buddhism of ‘an aware mind’ which according to Julia Cameron is the state of creativity. Contemporary designers can learn from the practices of the street vendors in Thailand. As such, Thai street vending reveals a link between Thai culture and Buddhism, and Design Thinking.Item Gimme Shelter: Implications of the Simple and the Humble in a Cardboard Fort in Context(2012) Sanematsu, HelenA small cardboard ‘fort’—four low walls and a roof—was used by a team of design students to investigate the relationship between technology, purpose, and meaning. Placed in a busy hallway in a University setting, the simple structure was intended to provide a space for users to respond to a written prompt. It was the structure itself, however, that elicited the strongest reactions, revealing a longing for childhood and a desire to be sheltered from the complexities of their everyday experience. This paper attempts to make connections between such responses to notions of physical simplicity, humbleness, and self-imposed isolation.