VIRTUALLY HOSTED HACKATHONS FOR DESIGN RESEARCH : LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE INTERNATIONAL DESIGN ENGINEERING ANNUAL (IDEA) CHALLENGE 2022

Daniel Nygaard Ege*, Mark Goudswaard, Ole Nesheim, Sindre W. Eikevåg, Oystein Bjelland, Kim A. Christensen, Robert Ballantyne, Shuo Su, Chris Cox, Louis Timperley, Omsri Aeddula, Raj Jiten MacHchhar, Ryan Ruvald, Jie Li, Sara Figueiredo, Saurabh Deo, Nikola Horvat, Ivan Čeh, Jelena Šklebar, Daniel MilerJames Gopsill, Ben Hicks, Martin Steinert, Shuo Su

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Abstract

The International Design Engineering Annual (IDEA) Challenge is a virtually hosted hackathon for Engineering Design researchers with aims of: i) generating open access datasets; ii) fostering community between researchers; and, iii) applying great design minds to develop solutions to real design problems. This paper presents the 2022 IDEA challenge and elements of the captured dataset with the aim of providing insights into prototyping behaviours at virtually hosted hackathons, comparing it with the 2021 challenge dataset and providing reflections and learnings from two years of running the challenge. The dataset is shown to provide valuable insights into how designers spend their time at hackathon events and how, why and when prototypes are used during their design processes. The dataset also corroborates the findings from the 2021 dataset, demonstrating the complementarity of physical and sketch prototypes. With this paper, we also invite the wider community to contribute to the IDEA Challenge in future years, either as participants or in using the platform to run their own design studies.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3811-3820
Number of pages10
JournalProceedings of the Design Society
Volume3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023
MoE publication typeA4 Conference publication
EventInternational Conference on Engineering Design - Bordeaux, France
Duration: 24 Jul 202328 Jul 2023
Conference number: 24

Keywords

  • Design engineering
  • Design methods
  • Design practice
  • Hackathon
  • Prototyping

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