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Evaluating Cross-departmental Art and Strategic Design Efforts in Higher Education’s General Curriculum: A Qualitative Case Study View Digital Media
Poster Session Catie-Reagan King
This study applied a qualitative single case study design to understand how and if fine art classes impact non-art majors. The study used a design thinking analysis framework to build understanding and awareness into non-art majors' experiences taking a fine arts elective. In alignment with the constructivist worldview, the researcher collected and analyzed each participant's experiences, attitudes, and opinions. Data collection followed a three-step process: classroom observations, interviews with students at the beginning of the semester, and feedback collection through a survey at the end of the semester. The researcher examined the implications of university arts courses offered to non-art majors by posing actionable recommendations for university administrators, curriculum designers, faculty, and students. Implementing these recommendations by liberal arts universities will lead to more well-rounded graduates equipped with the 21st-century skills needed for professional success.
Khora: Intervals of the Unconscious View Digital Media
Poster Session Jessica Poser
Khôra first emerged as a philosophical idea in the writings of Plato and was used to describe a space or interval that was ‘outside’ normal experience. He described it as a kind of ‘non-being’ or ‘formless interval’, a space that existed in between realms that were logical and knowable. In this arts based research project, I use the idea of Khôra as a way to investigate emergent images of the unconscious. This study explores Khôra as a generative way to think about the unconscious, a space in-between, one that can never be definitively posited, but one that can be explored through refraction, projection, condensation and automatism. The poster session includes original artwork and artist books.
ChatGPT and Literature: Disruptive Technology and New Directions in the Humanities View Digital Media
Poster Session Kay Li
This study evaluates how ChatGPT contributes to the understanding and global popularization of literature. Is it disruptive technology or panacea? First, ChatGPT is evaluated in terms of disruptive technology. Disruptive technology means a new business model that can attract an underserviced market and grows until it supplants incumbent competitors. ChatGPT’s ability to help users to understand, or even to access, literature will be explored. It reaches a far wider market than literary publications can ever aspire to. Launched only on November 30th, 2022, ChatGPT, a chatbot developed by OpenAI, is estimated to have reached 100 million monthly active users in January 2023. It is different from websites as it provides contextual information and interpretations of specific chunks of texts. The authenticity and authority of such interpretation need to be tackled carefully. In particular, its ability to ghost write by mimicking the style of writers by artificial intelligence needs to be assessed. Second, the ability of ChatGPT to provide new directions in the humanities especially in regard to literature will be examined. ChatGPT is trained by information drawn from the whole internet. Such closeness to the real reader yields innovative suggestions for the popularization of literature, especially in the global context. These new possibilities are explored to find out how readership can be expanded for literature, especially canonical texts. ChatGPT can provide plausible solutions customized for individual locations around the world. The viability these solutions generated by artificial intelligence is evaluated.
Visual Thinking Strategies Improves Internal Medicine Residents’ Wellbeing View Digital Media
Poster Session Julia See, Chi Zhang, Gauri Agarwal
Medical residents commonly suffer from burnout, which adversely affects patient care and their own well-being. Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS), a humanities-based approach, can help reduce stress and anxiety with some evidence suggesting that it may help reduce burnout rates in health professionals. However, there is limited research on VTS’s impact specifically on medical resident well-being. We conducted a study with 55 internal medicine residents. Demographic data, prior humanities and clinical exposure, and a pre-session WHO-5 wellness questionnaire was collected. The intervention group participated in a one-hour VTS session at an art museum while a control group participated in a campus tour. All residents completed a post-session WHO-5 questionnaire. The mean pre-experiment WHO-5 well-being index were 52.29 (+/-10.72) and 51.11 (+/-14.05) for the experiment and control groups respectively. The mean post-WHO-5 index were 72.43 (+/-13.83) and 65.63 (+/-20.46) for the experiment and control groups respectively. There was no significant difference on the pre-experiment WHO-5 well-being index between the two groups (p=0.728). However, the mean post-experiment WHO-5 well-being index was significantly higher than that of the control group when the pre-experiment WHO-5 well-being index was used as a covariance (p<-0.01). We found a significant increase in the interventional group’s wellbeing compared to the control group, as measured by the WHO-5 scale, with just one session of VTS. Further research is needed to confirm the efficacy and explore the effect of further dosing of this potentially simple intervention to improve resident well-being
