Article
Engineering, Multidisciplinary
Guido Stompff, Ties van Bruinessen, Frido Smulders
Summary: In design research, the integration of design and research activities presents epistemological challenges. The development of logical and temporal frameworks enables the creation of transferable knowledge, validation of ideas through experimentation and consensus, and the provision of practical insights for future inquiries.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Duncan Pritchard
Summary: The research presents a three-tiered account of social cognition and applies it to the case of scientific collaboration. The three tiers are socially-facilitated cognition, socially extended cognition, and distributed cognition.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Nursing
Jonathan Bayuo, Lydia Aziato, Kwan Ching Arkers Wong, Jingjing Su, Hammoda Abu-Odah, Frances Kam Yuet Wong
Summary: This discussion paper provides an in-depth analysis and comparison of phenomenography, highlighting its unique position as a qualitative research approach in the field of nursing. It emphasizes the importance of phenomenography and offers guidance for its further application in nursing.
JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Joffrey Fuhrer, Florian Cova, Nicolas Gauvrit, Sebastian Dieguez
Summary: The paper explores the nature and mechanisms of pseudoexpertise, providing a definition to capture real-world cases and distinguish it from related concepts. A framework for further research on pseudoexpertise is proposed, along with exploratory answers to questions about the existence and success of pseudoexperts. Overall, the conceptual and theoretical approaches establish a preliminary framework for addressing the problem of pseudoexperts usurping genuine experts.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Cybernetics
Hao Hu, Qinghua Li, Xiaoxiao Cao
Summary: Currently, there is insufficient research on the design innovation of cultural heritage in the field of cultural heritage research and protection. This research introduces various challenges in delivering such perspectives, as different cognitive characteristics influence the process of information and knowledge acquisition. Therefore, a design paradigm for cultural heritage based on embodied cognition theory is proposed to standardize and guide the design practice of cultural heritage.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Xianwei Meng, Jinjing Jenny Wang, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Shoji Itakura
Summary: The study found that both Japanese and American adults tend to believe that cognitive abilities in children develop later and are acquired through learning. They also attribute the acquisition of these abilities more to learning in humans than in non-human species. Beliefs about biological evolution versus creationism and the malleability of intelligence are related to participants' estimates of the onset and origin of fundamental cognitive abilities.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Ethics
Gabriela Pavarini, Robyn McMillan, Abigail Robinson, Ilina Singh
Summary: Empirical research in bioethics has rapidly advanced in recent years, with the proposal to establish design bioethics as a field of theoretical and methodological innovation using digital tools, especially purpose-built digital games, to align with theoretical frameworks and achieve situated engagement. Design bioethics tools have the potential to offer unique insights into normative and empirical issues in the field for groups traditionally under-represented in bioethics research and theory.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOETHICS
(2021)
Article
History & Philosophy Of Science
Mason Westfall
Summary: This paper discusses how we can understand the minds of others based on perception. The author argues that we do not directly perceive the mental states of others, but perceptual experiences can immediately justify attributions of mental states. This viewpoint provides the best explanation for our conflicting intuitions regarding perception-based mental state attributions and is also of significant interest to epistemology of perception.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Flurina Schneider, Aymara Llanque-Zonta, Onintsoa Ravaka Andriamihaja, R. Ntsiva N. Andriatsitohaina, Aung Myin Tun, Kiteme Boniface, Johanna Jacobi, Enrico Celio, Clara Leonie Diebold, Laby Patrick, Phokham Latthachack, Jorge Claudio Llopis, Lara Lundsgaard-Hansen, Peter Messerli, Stellah Mukhovi, Nwe Nwe Tun, Zo Hasina Rabemananjara, Bruno Salomon Ramamonjisoa, Sithong Thongmanivong, Thoumthone Vongvisouk, Daovorn Thongphanh, Win Myint, Julie Gwendolin Zaehringer
Summary: Transdisciplinary research is influenced by contextual characteristics, and challenges may arise in TDR due to factors such as socio-political situations and weak infrastructure support in Southern research sites. There is significant variation in contextual characteristics in the global South, which requires pragmatic adaptations and reflection on epistemological concepts in TDR.
SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Information Science & Library Science
Heng Xu, Nan Zhang
Summary: Privacy is a pressing issue in the advancement of information technology. However, current theories fail to explain everyday people's actions and decisions regarding privacy, hampering the implementation of effective interventions. This commentary proposes a new research perspective to better understand privacy phenomena.
INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
History & Philosophy Of Science
Duncan Pritchard, Andrea R. English, John Ravenscroft
Summary: The research focuses on whether the use of assistive technology in special needs education can be considered a form of extended cognition, suggesting that the relationship between students and AT is more than just instrumental. It is argued that special needs education provides a particularly plausible case for extended cognition, with important philosophical and practical implications for mainstream education in technologically-rich environments.
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Anton Gollwitzer, Irmak Olcaysoy Okten, Angel Osorio Pizarro, Gabriele Oettingen
Summary: Examining the structures underlying fanaticism, this study found that discordant knowing-felt knowledge about something perceived as opposed by most others plays a role in the development of fanaticism. This effect occurs via threat-based mechanisms, can be prevented through intervention, differs from effects on extremism, and extends to mental representations of the self.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-GENERAL
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
R. Dean Hardy
Summary: The article proposes the sharing meanings approach to improve interdisciplinary collaboration in hazards research, focusing on worldviews, language, research design, and project goals. By emphasizing the process of sharing, the approach aims to guide teams towards sharing implicit meanings and overcoming common roadblocks in interdisciplinary research. Through a hypothetical example, the approach demonstrates how differences can be turned into opportunities for innovating hybrid methodological research designs in hazards research.
Article
Psychology, Educational
Laureline Chiapello
Summary: This paper demonstrates how creativity studies and game design research can complement each other through a transdisciplinary approach, highlighting the importance of cultural and social aspects of creativity in current game design practice. Epistemological reflection is necessary to bridge the gap between creativity studies and game design research, and a pragmatist approach shows promise in advancing a comprehensive view of creativity in game design practice. The paper also advocates for more transdisciplinarity in creativity research to establish theories suited for a wide array of disciplines.
JOURNAL OF CREATIVE BEHAVIOR
(2022)
Article
History & Philosophy Of Science
Renne Pesonen
Summary: The social epistemology of science needs to pay more attention to the nature of argumentative exchanges, which are not only cognitive activities but also collaborative social activities. This article discusses how mutual reasoning affects thinking, decision-making, and problem-solving, and how cognitive biases facilitate the division of cognitive labor. The article emphasizes the importance of understanding the conceptual differences between distributed and social processing of information and suggests investigating different mechanisms from cognitive psychology to complement existing approaches in organizational psychology and computer simulations in the social epistemology of science.
Article
Construction & Building Technology
Margo Annemans, Ann Heylighen
Summary: This study aims to explore the meaning of knowledge transfer in healthcare building design for different actors, emphasizing productive interactions in solving real-world problems and analyzing how researchers, healthcare organizations, and designers perceive and value knowledge transfer and its impact.
BUILDING RESEARCH AND INFORMATION
(2021)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Margo Annemans, Koen Coomans, Ann Heylighen
Summary: This study investigates the role of built space in palliative care and highlights the importance of building scale and physical proximity in affecting physical and social well-being. The findings suggest that a small-scale design can counter the association of palliative care with hospital environments and enhance emotional and social well-being by providing accessible communal and outdoor spaces.
BMJ SUPPORTIVE & PALLIATIVE CARE
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Multidisciplinary
Piet Tutenel, Ann Heylighen
Summary: This article examines the relationship between vulnerability and everyday design, viewing vulnerability as a form of philosophical and ethical care through the lens of design research and anthropology. Everyday design challenges the tendency to confine vulnerability within interpersonal relationships.
Article
Construction & Building Technology
S. Willems, D. Saelens, A. Heylighen
Summary: This study investigates how the design of hospital rooms can contribute to patients' well-being by supporting their adaptation of and to indoor conditions via perceived control. Building characteristics that provide patients with a sense of control can enhance their adaptation to indoor conditions. When patients have control over adaptable building features, they can better adapt to the indoor environment.
BUILDING RESEARCH AND INFORMATION
(2022)
Article
Construction & Building Technology
Sara Willems, Dirk Saelens, Ann Heylighen
Summary: Hospitals' indoor conditions affect patients' comfort, with adaptation strategies influencing patients' experiences and satisfaction. Psychological adaptation strategies seem to affect experiences in different ways, which current methods cannot fully predict.
BUILDING RESEARCH AND INFORMATION
(2022)
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Pleuntje Jellema, Margo Annemans, Ann Heylighen
Summary: Visual methods, including drawing, have value as both subjects and means of analysis in qualitative research. Researchers can actively engage with drawings to better understand and arrange data, and to supplement the traditional audio-to-text transcription process.
QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Cultural Studies
Margo Annemans, Koen Coomans, Ann Heylighen
Summary: This study examines the impact of the built prison environment on the provision of care for prisoners with specific needs. Through observations and interviews, the researchers provide a nuanced understanding of what caring entails in a prison environment and suggest that spatial variety can reduce the need for control within the prison environment.
Article
Rehabilitation
Margo Annemans, Delfien Van Dyck, Ann Heylighen
Summary: This research explores the factors influencing physical activity among patients in a rehabilitation center. The study found that patients often narrowly interpret physical activity as therapy, but in reality, daily activities are just as important. Patients are motivated to engage in physical activity by setting clear goals, social interaction, choice and control, and the built environment. Furthermore, the way patients act and interact with the built environment is closely related to how staff approach and communicate care, further impacting patients' physical activity.
DISABILITY AND REHABILITATION
(2023)
Article
Architecture
Elise Tackx, Phuong Nguyen, Ann Heylighen
Summary: This study examines the impact of student housing on students with autism spectrum disorder and their housemates. The findings highlight the importance of designing student housing that promotes social interactions and comfort for students on the autism spectrum.
JOURNAL OF INTERIOR DESIGN
(2022)
Review
Architecture
Phuong Nguyen, Viviana d'Auria, Ann Heylighen
Summary: This scoping review aims to summarize research and design writings on residential design for adults on the autism spectrum, identify research gaps in this field, and understand the concept of independent living. The review highlights the lack of methods for involving and direct contact with autistic adults, and the overlooking of the needs of people living or working with them. The role of independent living has also received little attention in the literature. Future research should be conducted with autistic adults to gain nuanced insight into their housing needs and those of the people around them.
OPEN HOUSE INTERNATIONAL
(2023)
Editorial Material
Architecture
Piet Tutenel, Stefan Ramaekers, Ann Heylighen
JOURNAL OF INTERIOR DESIGN
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Berit Ann Roos, Mark Mobach, Ann Heylighen
Summary: The aim of this study is to explore the interaction between challenging behavior in intellectually impaired individuals and space, and to investigate the use of routinely collected data for this purpose. The findings suggest that the interaction between individuals and space can be both direct and indirect, and that space has a strong impact on individuals' senses and perceived stress. People also have a significant influence, with caregivers having both positive and negative effects, and co-residents triggering challenging behavior. Providing living environments that offer choice in caregiver proximity, distance from high-tension co-residents, lower transition thresholds, and predictability would be beneficial for intellectually impaired individuals showing challenging behavior.
HERD-HEALTH ENVIRONMENTS RESEARCH & DESIGN JOURNAL
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Marie Elf, Bjorn Slaug, Charlotte Ytterberg, Ann Heylighen, Maya Kylen
Summary: This study explores the relationship between the physical home environment and rehabilitation outcomes among community-living persons poststroke. The findings suggest that problems in the home environment can affect rehabilitation outcomes, particularly in terms of mobility, activities of daily living, and recovery from disability. Therefore, it is important to address and improve the home environment for stroke patients to enhance rehabilitation outcomes.
HERD-HEALTH ENVIRONMENTS RESEARCH & DESIGN JOURNAL
(2023)
Article
Art
Peter-Willem Vermeersch, Ann Heylighen
Summary: This article examines the development of representational artifacts to facilitate discussions between architects and blind individuals in collaborative design practices. The study found that visuo-haptic design representations can perceptually and cognitively support communication, but also raise questions about the role of representation in co-designing.
CODESIGN-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COCREATION IN DESIGN AND THE ARTS
(2021)
Article
Architecture
Natalia Perez Liebergesell, Peter-Willem Vermeersch, Ann Heylighen
Summary: This study examines how architect William Feuerman's disruptive vision impairment reshaped his attention and how he incorporated the insights gained into his design practice. By deliberately introducing disruption into his designs and reorganizing people's modes of attention through distinct visual qualities of architecture, Feuerman aimed to make passers-by more attentive to their surroundings, generating new meaning. Considering disabled people's lived experiences demonstrates potential in designing artifacts that are experientially interesting for a broad population.
JOURNAL OF INTERIOR DESIGN
(2021)
