Visualising professional vision interactions in design reviews

Abstract

A visual notation called the interaction dynamics notation was used for analysing the moment-to-moment interpersonal interactions in design reviews. The expressions of professional vision (PV) – a system of seeing and interpreting that characterises a professional group – are identified in these design review interactions. The analysis showed that students’ participation was important to the articulation of PV in design reviews. Specifically, there were four interaction patterns – question-asking, supportive behaviour, building-on behaviour and humour that were associated with nine types of PV expressions in design review interactions. These interaction patterns are examined in the context of existing literature on design reviews. The implication of using the visual representation of review interactions as an educational tool is explored.

Keywords:

• Interaction
• visualisation
• professional vision
• design review

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Gina Pai, Aparna Krishnan and Maxime Bessane for helping develop the IDN Tool that was used in this research.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Funding

This work was supported by the Hasso Plattner Design Thinking Research Programme.