The Oculomotor Correlates of Exploratory Model Making: A Mixed-Methods Eye Tracking Study
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Title
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The Oculomotor Correlates of Exploratory Model Making: A Mixed-Methods Eye Tracking Study
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Description
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In this thesis, I take a post-cognitivist view of design and use eye-tracking to study the oculomotor behavior of architects during different exploratory model-making activities. My interest is to determine to what extent eye movements may yield a useful low-level, fine-grained understanding of design cognition in exploratory model making. I do this by designing and conducting a mixed-methods, observational exploratory eye-tracking study. The study consists of a series of block assembly tasks that are increasingly complex from a design standpoint. I develop a multi-tier coding scheme and propose original metrics that link eye movements, hand motoric action, and design operations together. By doing so, I show the unique opportunities that eye-tracking methods offer to the understanding of design cognition in exploratory model making ;furthermore, I outline a set of preliminary hypotheses about the role of eye movements in exploratory model making to inform future research in this topic.
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Creator
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Ugarte Urzua, Juan Pablo
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Subject
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creativity
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embodied cognition
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eye tracking
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model making
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Architecture
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Design
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Computer science
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Contributor
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Bechthold, Martin
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Michalatos, Panagiotis
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Sayegh, Allen
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Smithwick, Daniel
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Date
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2023-11-15T02:55:24Z
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2023
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2023-11-14
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2023-11
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2023-11-15T02:55:24Z
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Type
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Thesis or Dissertation
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text
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Format
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application/pdf
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application/pdf
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Identifier
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Ugarte Urzua, Juan Pablo. 2023. The Oculomotor Correlates of Exploratory Model Making: A Mixed-Methods Eye Tracking Study. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard Graduate School of Design.
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30691669
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https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37377376
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0009-0004-3818-0761
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Language
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en