Abstract
Abstract. Analysing records of design activity such as transcripts or documents have typically involved close reading of transcripts and manual identification of concepts and behaviours. We explore the applicability of a machine-learning based computational tool—called Empath—in identifying high-level patterns in design talk. Specifically, we use it to examine the datasets from the Design Thinking Research Symposium (DTRS) workshops for two contrasting aspects of design talk—the expression of tentativeness that characterises designers’ exploration of the problem-solution space, and the expression of causal reasoning that characterises designers’ analytical thinking. We find that such a tool can be effectively used as a means of “distant reading”. However, the lack of design relevance in the tool’s training data results in ambiguities and mis-categorisations that still need resolution through close reading.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of Design Thinking Research Symposium 13 (DTRS 13) |
Subtitle of host publication | Expanding the frontiers of design: A blessing or a curse? |
Editors | Ezri Tarazi, Gabriela Goldschmidt |
Pages | 88-102 |
Publication status | Published - 2022 |
Event | 13th Design Thinking Research Symposium: Expanding the frontiers of design: A blessing or a curse? - Technion City, Haifa, Israel Duration: 3 Mar 2022 → 24 Mar 2022 https://architecture.technion.ac.il/events/%D7%94%D7%9B%D7%A0%D7%A1-%D7%94-13-%D7%9C%D7%97%D7%A7%D7%A8-%D7%94%D7%97%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%91%D7%94-%D7%94%D7%A2%D7%99%D7%A6%D7%95%D7%91%D7%99%D7%AA-%D7%AA%D7%9B%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%AA/ |
Conference
Conference | 13th Design Thinking Research Symposium |
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Country/Territory | Israel |
City | Haifa |
Period | 3/03/22 → 24/03/22 |
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Bibliographical note
Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Keywords
- Computational Linguistics
- Conversation Analysis
- Design Talk
- Design Thinking
- Machine Learning