A Symbiotic Relationship: Combining User Experience Methods and Systems Theory to Understand Engineering Doctoral Students' Professional Identity Development

Studies about doctoral students' professional identity development as scholars and researchers remain scarce within engineering education literature, and current frameworks for tracing identity development require a more effective longitudinal design to capture development over time. As we appl...

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Published in2024 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm) pp. 79 - 83
Main Authors Tham, Jason, Cross, Jennifer, Beruvides, Mario, Polanco-Lahoz, Diego, Hasan, Md Rashedul, Cargile Cook, Kelli
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 14.07.2024
Subjects
Affordances
Bridges
Buildings
Collaboration
Engineering education
identity development
Medical services
Symbiosis
systems theory
User experience
user experience (UX)
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Summary:Studies about doctoral students' professional identity development as scholars and researchers remain scarce within engineering education literature, and current frameworks for tracing identity development require a more effective longitudinal design to capture development over time. As we apply user experience (UX) methods to document students' identity development, we reflect on the affordances and constraints of qualitative user experience methods as a complementary approach to engineering identity research and demonstrate a way of building bridges across disciplines to innovate research methods and scholarly agendas that benefit all partners.
ISSN:2158-1002
DOI:10.1109/ProComm61427.2024.00022