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SUMMARY:Investigating the role of affective force on design thinking - Maa
 ike Kleinsmann -  Assistant Professor at Delft University of Technology
DTSTART:20080625T153000Z
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CONTACT:Thomas Jun
DESCRIPTION: Affect is a strong factor in regulating thinking because affe
 ct helps us to conditionally and unconditionally value situations with res
 pect to value codes. Such cognitive behaviour is likely to cross over into
  design thinking\, since the way designers value the design situation will
  influence the designer’s cognitive processing. In our research\, we see
 k to address the role of affect in designing by understanding the extent t
 o which linguistic displays of affective processing serve designing ends. 
 Since design is often a team activity\, we study the role of affect during
  collaborative design. In the presentation two papers about the role of af
 fective content during collaborative design will be presented.\n\nThe firs
 t paper deals with the interaction of affect and shared understanding (Kle
 insmann and Dong\, 2007). It is theorized that affect may have cognitive p
 rocessing consequences for shared understanding in design. In order to inv
 estigate this\, the paper develops a research method that brings together 
 theories and instruments from cognitive science\, linguistics\, and design
  studies. The results indicate that there is an alignment between patterns
  of appraisals and the formation of shared understanding\, which suggest i
 nterplay between affect and shared understanding. In the presentation this
  alignment will be shown.\n\nIn the second paper that will be presented\, 
 we investigate the role that affective content plays during knowledge shar
 ing and knowledge creation (Dong\, Kleinsmann and Valkenburg\, 2007). We f
 ind that positive appraisals positively influence knowledge creation\, whi
 le negative appraisals hamper knowledge creation\, during the brainstorms 
 in two engineering meetings. We also find that negative appraisals lead to
  technical analysis\, while positive affective content allows the group to
  rely on general knowledge and background experience rather than analysing
  the current situation to make a decision.\nBased upon these two studies w
 e hypothesize that the language of appraisal serves three meta-functions i
 n design: (1) to regulate logical design thinking where affect-in-cognitio
 n is part of a highly coupled regulatory network in logical thinking\; (2)
  to signal and control the pacing and sequencing of design actions\; and (
 3) to encode design knowledge\, and in particular to mark useful knowledge
 .
LOCATION:Meeting Rooms 1A+1B\, (off the Oatly Lab)\, 2nd Floor\, Engineeri
 ng Department
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