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Healthclockface: Design Of Glanceable Health Data Visualization For Smartwatches, Tianqin Lu, Bin Yu, Jun Hu Dec 2025

Healthclockface: Design Of Glanceable Health Data Visualization For Smartwatches, Tianqin Lu, Bin Yu, Jun Hu

IASDR Conference Series

Remote measurement technologies (RMTs) hold promises for health tracking, yet current health data visualizations in RMTs primarily target data-savvy experts, posing challenges for those with limited expertise. Although researchers have explored creative visualization methods, they often fall short in aiding data comprehension and neglect the needs of individuals and informal caregivers. This paper introduces Health Clockface, a smartwatch clockface that offers a glanceable visualization of health data using abstract and dynamic visuals generated by chaotic attractors. Designed for non-expert users, the system translates real-time inputs into ambient, glanceable feedback that supports awareness of one’s health. The system was developed through …


Visualization Design Of Traditional Chinese Opera Music Based On Chladni Figures: A Case Study Of The Yue Opera "The Butterfly Lovers", Ke Huang, Juanfang Xu, Zhipeng Han Dec 2025

Visualization Design Of Traditional Chinese Opera Music Based On Chladni Figures: A Case Study Of The Yue Opera "The Butterfly Lovers", Ke Huang, Juanfang Xu, Zhipeng Han

IASDR Conference Series

The existing music visualization designs mostly focus on presenting information in a single dimension, and the interdisciplinary integration of acoustic characteristics and cultural semantics has not been deeply explored. To enhance the diverse dissemination of traditional operas in modern society, this paper proposes a music visualization design framework based on Chladni figures. Taking the Yue Opera "The Butterfly Lovers" as the object, an interdisciplinary path of "acoustic analysis-synesthesia translation" is constructed. Through Chladni experiments, the vibration patterns of musical sound waves are deconstructed, and acoustic attributes such as pitch and rhythm are transformed into graphic primitives. Meanwhile, relying on Thayer's …


Research On Creative Product Design Based On The Commonalities Of Minority Cultures In Heilongjiang In China, Yong Wang, Jianpei Yu, Hiroki Sato, Xuanchi Liu Dec 2025

Research On Creative Product Design Based On The Commonalities Of Minority Cultures In Heilongjiang In China, Yong Wang, Jianpei Yu, Hiroki Sato, Xuanchi Liu

IASDR Conference Series

The Heilongjiang River Basin is home to diverse ethnic minority cultures such as the Hezhe, Oroqen, Manchu, and Daur, shaped by cold-climate ecological contexts, totemic beliefs, and sustenance practices like hunting and fishing. Under the pressures of globalization and modernization, these cultural traditions face the dual risks of margin aliz ation and symbolic trivia liz ation. This study addresses the urgent need for revitalization through creative design by identifying and transforming shared cultural elements. Based on cultural ecology and theories of cultural commonality, the research employs literature review, field investigation, and cross-ethnic comparative analysis to extract common cultural traits in …


Design And Evaluation Method Of Museum Cultural And Creative Product Styling Based On Generative Artificial Intelligence, Mao-Kai Yan, Chun-Heng Ho Dec 2025

Design And Evaluation Method Of Museum Cultural And Creative Product Styling Based On Generative Artificial Intelligence, Mao-Kai Yan, Chun-Heng Ho

IASDR Conference Series

Generative artificial intelligence (GAI), which is gradually becoming an important tool for improving design efficiency, has been widely applied in museum cultural and creative product design. This paper proposes a product styling design method that integrates content generation and quantitative evaluation in order to explore the innovation path of GAI in the design of museum cultural and creative products. This method firstly uses Chat GPTto analyze users' perceptual demand, extract design target imagery, and generate Midjourney prompts based on cultural element reference images. Secondly, a styling reference database is constructed with Mid journey by integrating cultural elements, target imagery, andprompts, …


Is It Still Dyson? Evaluating Brand Identity In Ai-Generated Designs Using Machine Learning, Sheng-Ming Huang, Hung-Hsiang Wang Dec 2025

Is It Still Dyson? Evaluating Brand Identity In Ai-Generated Designs Using Machine Learning, Sheng-Ming Huang, Hung-Hsiang Wang

IASDR Conference Series

This study investigates the application of machine learning in evaluating brand typicality during product line extension, taking inspiration from Dyson’s recent expansion into the headphone category. The research process comprised four main stages: extraction of visual features via Design Format Analysis (DFA), development of an image classification model on the WEKA platform, generation of Dyson-style speaker images using Stable Diffusion, and expert evaluation of the results. The classification model reached an accuracy of 87.21%, demonstrating an ability to distinguish between Dyson and non-Dyson styles. Expert feedback indicated that the model was effective in identifying surface-level features such as color and …


Scientific Visual Communication And Collaboration Within Text-To-Image Genai: A Scoping Review, Hao Wei Tu, David Mesa, Christine Thong Dec 2025

Scientific Visual Communication And Collaboration Within Text-To-Image Genai: A Scoping Review, Hao Wei Tu, David Mesa, Christine Thong

IASDR Conference Series

Text-to-image generation artificial intelligence (T2I GenAI) tools such as DALL·E, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney have emerged as fast and flexible tools for creating scientific visualisations since 2020. However, their application in scientific communication and collaboration remains fragmented across disciplines. To map this landscape, we conducted a scoping review of 38 peer-reviewed articles published after 2020, following the Arksey & O’Malley framework and PRISMA-ScR guidelines. We combined manual searches in Web of Science, Scopus, ACM, and IEEE with AI-assisted searches through Elicit. Then we applied strict inclusion criteria and subject coding. Our analysis identified four main mechanisms by which T2I GenAI …


Artifacts As Mediators: Translating Co-Creation Into Organizational Well-Being In Chinese Soes, Ziwei Lin, Bicheng Wang, Jie Meng Dec 2025

Artifacts As Mediators: Translating Co-Creation Into Organizational Well-Being In Chinese Soes, Ziwei Lin, Bicheng Wang, Jie Meng

IASDR Conference Series

In hierarchical organizations like Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs), top-down structures exacerbate employee burnout and challenge the democratic ethos of co-creation. This paper reports on a two-year Research through Design (RtD) project that navigated this tension by co-designing the Happy Doodle Toolkit (HDT), a low-tech wellness intervention. This study first surveyed burnout with 222 questionnaires and 40 interviews, then used an Analytic-Hierarchy co-creation workshop (3 psychologists, 2 executives, 2 employees) to develop the Toolkit. In a four-week pilot, 38 participants produced 152 doodle diaries and paired MBI-GS surveys; t-tests showed significant drops in emotional exhaustion and cynicism and a rise in …


Crafting Playful Data Engagement: Designing Textile-Based Workshops For Participants From Diverse Backgrounds, Chengtian Li, Jianrui Zhao, Xinru Zhu, Chihiro Sato, Kayoko Nohara Dec 2025

Crafting Playful Data Engagement: Designing Textile-Based Workshops For Participants From Diverse Backgrounds, Chengtian Li, Jianrui Zhao, Xinru Zhu, Chihiro Sato, Kayoko Nohara

IASDR Conference Series

Building on craft’s material, narrative, and embodied dimensions—well established in design research—this study explores how textile-based making can foster playful engagement with personal data. As data practices shift beyond performance-oriented dashboards toward more expressive and situated forms, textile craft offers an alternative mode for materializing data through hands-on interaction. We conducted three workshops with participant groups of varying expertise in craft and data—crochet hobbyists, data-science students, and community organisers—with each workshop employing textile techniques tailored to their backgrounds. Our findings show that participants creatively negotiated material constraints and affordances to engage with their data in ways aligned with the playful …


Making Meaning Manifest: Communication And Relevance In Design Thinking, Luke Feast Dec 2025

Making Meaning Manifest: Communication And Relevance In Design Thinking, Luke Feast

IASDR Conference Series

This paper examines communication in design thinking, drawing on Sperber and Wilson's Relevance Theory as an alternative to the prevailing information-processing model. While design thinking is commonly framed as problem-solving, we propose that designed artefacts function as ostensive stimuli that guide users' inferential processes rather than encoding fixed meanings. The ostensive-inferential model reveals how designers communicate through intentions, where users actively infer meaning based on evidence, context, and relevance. This framework explains complex communicative phenomena, including affordances, metaphors, cross-cultural design considerations, and ethical dimensions of design practice. This perspective has significant implications for design thinking education and practice, emphasising communication …


Knowledge Graph Application In Input-Defined Design Education Under Transdisciplinary Contexts, Liang Dong, Can Lu, Yijun Huang, Xuejing Feng, Chun-Hsien Chen, Meng Wang Dec 2025

Knowledge Graph Application In Input-Defined Design Education Under Transdisciplinary Contexts, Liang Dong, Can Lu, Yijun Huang, Xuejing Feng, Chun-Hsien Chen, Meng Wang

IASDR Conference Series

As transdisciplinary design education evolves to meet complex societal and technological demands, it is increasingly challenged by curricular fragmentation and pedagogical inefficiencies. To address these issues, this paper first proposes the Input-Output Design Education Model (IODEM), which conceptualizes design education as a structured interplay between three categories of knowledge inputs (procedural, product, and contextual) and three types of design outputs (conceptual, representational, and critical). Subsequently, the course Product Design Based on Origami Structures is introduced as a representative case to examine how a Rigid Origami Knowledge Graph (ROKG) can facilitate transdisciplinary education, which is developed by synthesizing structural engineering knowledge …


Collaborative Learning Experience Design For Kindergarten: The "Marumaru Play Labo" Wood-Based Learning And Play Program, Bente Sutas, Masashi Igaki, Nanami Inoue, Mitsuyo Oshima Dec 2025

Collaborative Learning Experience Design For Kindergarten: The "Marumaru Play Labo" Wood-Based Learning And Play Program, Bente Sutas, Masashi Igaki, Nanami Inoue, Mitsuyo Oshima

IASDR Conference Series

This study describes the “MaruMaru Play Labo” Wood-Based Learning and Play Program, a project structured using Learning Experience Design (LXD). The intervention intentionally employed a co- creation framework, involving diverse partners, including university Design and Childcare departments, the kindergarten, and local environmental groups, to enhance productive learning design. The experimental program, centered on Japanese wood-based learning (Mokuiku), aimed to enhance working memory (WM) and non-cognitive skills in 11 kindergarten children, with parental participation required across all five lessons. Quantitative analysis of WM scores showed no significant difference between groups, suggesting a need to reassess the assessment tool and consider external …


The Aesthetic Appeal Of Visual Flow: A Kansei Engineering Study On Attractive Factors Of Motion Graphics In An Immersive Environment, Hsin-Jui Chen, Tzu-Wei Tsai Dec 2025

The Aesthetic Appeal Of Visual Flow: A Kansei Engineering Study On Attractive Factors Of Motion Graphics In An Immersive Environment, Hsin-Jui Chen, Tzu-Wei Tsai

IASDR Conference Series

As immersive media continues to evolve as a dominant paradigm in digital design, understanding how motion graphics shape users’ emotional engagement and sensory perception has become a critical issue in visual communication research. This study examines the relationship between visual design elements in immersive motion graphics and users’ Kansei experiences, aiming to identify key attraction factors and their corresponding quality attributes. Grounded in the framework of Kansei Engineering, in-depth interviews were conducted using the Evaluation Grid Method (EGM), resulting in the identification of eight representative attraction factors. These factors were further analyzed using the Kano Model, Customer Satisfaction Coefficients (CS/DS), …


Internal Facial Contour (Ifc): An Exploration Of Expressive Communication Approaches For The Design Of Face-Worn Wearables, Mingshuo Li, Rowan Page, Chuan Khoo Dec 2025

Internal Facial Contour (Ifc): An Exploration Of Expressive Communication Approaches For The Design Of Face-Worn Wearables, Mingshuo Li, Rowan Page, Chuan Khoo

IASDR Conference Series

Facial movement delivers rich emotional messages. This pictorial explores a novel concept in enhancing expressive facial communication – the Internal Facial Contour (IFC). The IFC device constructs a linear visual language on the face through a collection of face-worn wearables. These wearable augmentations deform in response to facial muscle movement, thereby suggesting emotional states. The shape of the IFC device naturally becomes visually wider and more open when smiling; in contrast, it becomes narrower and more closed when frowning. To test the acceptance of this communication language, feedback was collected through casual interviews, visual perception tests, and usage observations. The …


Reimagining Immersive Experience: From Visual Spectacle To Existential Introspection, Ziyao Lin Dec 2025

Reimagining Immersive Experience: From Visual Spectacle To Existential Introspection, Ziyao Lin

IASDR Conference Series

This paper presents an artistic investigation into contemporary immersive exhibitions, focusing on the distinction between commercial spectacle and introspective experience. In the context of mass- produced, market-driven immersive environments, audiences are often reduced to passive visual consumers, where com modified aesthetics and per formative social media interaction dominate the experiential structure. As a counterpoint, this study introduces Limit Situation, an Extended Reality (XR) art project that constructs six symbolically paradoxical digital environments inspired by the existential philosophy of Karl Jaspers. The work fosters a meditative experience that engages with both external alienation and internal loss. Unlike sensory overload-based installations, this …


The Design Research Of "Tema": Exploring Intentional Acts Of Taking Time And Effort In A Contemporary Society, Tianshuo Lu, Takuma Ishikawa Dec 2025

The Design Research Of "Tema": Exploring Intentional Acts Of Taking Time And Effort In A Contemporary Society, Tianshuo Lu, Takuma Ishikawa

IASDR Conference Series

In today’s hyper-efficient world, why do people engage in activities that require time and effort? This research explores the causes and meanings of such behaviors through the Japanese concept of “tema”, defined as intentional, non-optimized engagement where the process holds intrinsic value. Using workshops and qualitative interviews, we identify four key elements of “tema”: time, body, creativity, and value. These deliberate actions foster personal meaning, emotional satisfaction, and deeper connection with the material world. Building on these insights, we propose a design potential that applies “tema” as a framework for creative practice. Rather than reinforcing a binary between efficiency and …


Exploring The Metacognitive Regulation Of Emotions During The Design Process, Hsiang-Ting Huang, Hsi-Jen Chen Dec 2025

Exploring The Metacognitive Regulation Of Emotions During The Design Process, Hsiang-Ting Huang, Hsi-Jen Chen

IASDR Conference Series

This study explored how design students employ meta cognition to regulate emotions during collaborative design and examined the influence of different teamwork styles. Nine graduate students participated in a ten-week project developing an educational board game, with data collected through design journals and analysed using content analysis. The results showed: (1) clear goals and effective regulatory strategies enhanced perceived control and fostered positive emotions, whereas task ambiguity often triggered anxiety; (2) teamwork styles shaped emotional trajectories: additive teams achieved stability through intensive interaction, conjunctive teams showed individualized regulation due to limited support, and disjunctive teams reflected the leader’s emotional strain …


Investigating The Application Potential Of Smart Wearable Technology In Craft Practical Instruction, Tzu-Hsu Chiu, Chen-Kuei Fan Dec 2025

Investigating The Application Potential Of Smart Wearable Technology In Craft Practical Instruction, Tzu-Hsu Chiu, Chen-Kuei Fan

IASDR Conference Series

Practical teaching, widely used in vocational education, faces challenges such as blocked views for rear students and reversed perspectives causing misunderstandings. With technological progress, smart glasses offer new possibilities for teaching. This study explored the potential of integrating smart glasses into craft practical teaching, focusing on jewelry and pottery. Conducted in two stages, it involved classroom observations and interviews, followed by teaching experiments evaluated via student questionnaires and teacher interviews. Findings revealed issues like obstructed views and reversed angles. Results showed that: 1. smart glasses’ first-person projections improved visibility; 2. recorded videos supported student review. However, teachers and students noted …


Detection Of Breath, Phonation And Cough Sounds Using Sound Feature Vectors And Artificial Neural Networks By Calculating Lung Forced Vital Capacity With Mobile Infrastructures, Edmond Hajrizi Dec 2025

Detection Of Breath, Phonation And Cough Sounds Using Sound Feature Vectors And Artificial Neural Networks By Calculating Lung Forced Vital Capacity With Mobile Infrastructures, Edmond Hajrizi

International Journal of Business and Technology

Objective: In this study, it is aimed to calculate the tidal volume capacity with mobile infrastructures and to determine the O2 and CO2 values from breath, phonation and cough sounds with the help of artificial neural networks using voice feature vectors. In addition, it is aimed to develop a method that will enable computation of forced expiratory volume via mobile devices.

Materials and Methods: Since sound disease diagnosis is basically a classification problem, tidal volume classification is considered as a pattern recognition problem. Our automatic O2 and CO2 classification study as a pattern recognition function includes three subcomponents; Identifying and …


"Live Otio": Decentralized Nle Timeline Synchronization Via Opentimelineio And Rga Crdt Mapping, Matthew D. Judson Dec 2025

"Live Otio": Decentralized Nle Timeline Synchronization Via Opentimelineio And Rga Crdt Mapping, Matthew D. Judson

Defensive Publications Series

Disclosed is a method for decentralized, real-time synchronization of Non-Linear Editor (NLE) timelines by mapping the OpenTimelineIO (OTIO) schema to Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs). The core innovation is the specific application of the Replicated Growable Array (RGA) algorithm (e.g., via Automerge) to manage the temporal sequence of clips in an OTIO Track. RGA avoids array indices, instead using persistent UUIDs and relative positioning ("Insert Clip B after UUID-A"). This mathematically guarantees convergence and solves the "index shifting" problem inherent in concurrent timeline edits, enabling offline-capable collaboration without central servers. The system defines a direct isomorphism between OTIO components and …


Ktkn-Hub: Decentralized Git Hosting Via Ktkn-Os/Automerge And Isomorphic-Git, Matthew D. Judson Dec 2025

Ktkn-Hub: Decentralized Git Hosting Via Ktkn-Os/Automerge And Isomorphic-Git, Matthew D. Judson

Defensive Publications Series

Disclosed is KTKN-HUB, a peer-to-peer (P2P) Git hosting platform utilizing decentralized storage (KTKN-OS) and CRDTs. The core innovation is the direct mapping of the Git object model into the KTKN-OS data fabric. Git objects (Commits, Trees, Blobs) are stored as immutable KTKN-OS documents. Crucially, Git References (Branches, Tags) are implemented as mutable CRDTs (Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types). This enables concurrent updates (pushes) without conflicts, guaranteeing mathematical convergence when peers reconnect. The system implements a novel filesystem adapter (KTKN-FS) that bridges the isomorphic-git library to the KTKN-OS backend, enabling Git operations without a traditional POSIX filesystem.


Deterministic Data Synthesis Pipeline For Multimodal Ai Training (The Trueos-Ktkn Data Engine), Matthew D. Judson Dec 2025

Deterministic Data Synthesis Pipeline For Multimodal Ai Training (The Trueos-Ktkn Data Engine), Matthew D. Judson

Defensive Publications Series

Disclosed is a system for generating "Golden Master" training datasets for Multimodal Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models. The core innovation is a "Deterministic Render-Capture Loop" that decouples simulation time (simTime) from wall-clock time. The system advances the simulation by a fixed delta ($\Delta t$), renders the state, and captures the frame using WebCodecs, timestamping it with simTime regardless of actual render duration. This guarantees a mathematically perfect framerate and perfect synchronization between video frames and telemetry logs, eliminating the frame drops and jitter inherent in real-time screen recording. The pipeline is orchestrated within the TrueOS/Electron shell, managing the simulation backend (e.g., Python …


Lead Sources Detected In Manila's Air After The Phase-Out Of Leaded Gasoline, Grace Betito, Paola Angela Bañaga, Maria Obiminda L. Cambaliza, Melliza Templonuevo Cruz, James Bernard Simpas, Mengli Chen, Jariya Kayee, Armin Sorooshian, Rachel A. Braun, Alexander B. Macdonald Dec 2025

Lead Sources Detected In Manila's Air After The Phase-Out Of Leaded Gasoline, Grace Betito, Paola Angela Bañaga, Maria Obiminda L. Cambaliza, Melliza Templonuevo Cruz, James Bernard Simpas, Mengli Chen, Jariya Kayee, Armin Sorooshian, Rachel A. Braun, Alexander B. Macdonald

Ateneo Atmospheric Physics Laboratory

Abstract

The global phase-out of leaded gasoline marked a major milestone in pollution control, yet modern uses of lead (Pb) continue to pose significant health risks, especially in low- and middle-income countries. In the Philippines, significant data gaps still exist despite increasing exposure. This study presents to the best of our knowledge, the first Pb isotopic fingerprinting of atmospheric aerosols in Metro Manila, Philippines, covering fine (0.56–1 μm) and coarse (5.6–10 μm) fractions, collected in 2018–2019. Results show that local sources, mainly industrial activities (45–62 %) and fossil fuel combustion (30–45 %), are now the dominant contributors to airborne Pb, …


December 2025 Faculty Senate Packet, University Of Nebraska At Kearney Faculty Senate Dec 2025

December 2025 Faculty Senate Packet, University Of Nebraska At Kearney Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Packets

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Low Power Magnetically Shielded Krypton Hall Thruster Design, Grace Klang Dec 2025

Low Power Magnetically Shielded Krypton Hall Thruster Design, Grace Klang

Honors Theses

This project investigates the design and modeling of a low-power Hall-Effect Thruster optimized for krypton propellant, serving as a continuation of Western Michigan University’s Hall thruster development series. Krypton is selected as an alternative to xenon due to its significantly lower cost and increased availability, though its higher ionization energy and reduced atomic mass introduce performance, ionization, and efficiency challenges that must be addressed through careful design. The goal of this study is to design two 300-W class thrusters capable of achieving high efficiency and long operational life on krypton propellant while maintaining full compatibility with existing laboratory facilities and …


Ctrl + Alt + Inner Speech: A Verbal–Cognitive Scaffold (Vcs) Model Of Pathways To Computational Thinking, Daisuke Akiba Dec 2025

Ctrl + Alt + Inner Speech: A Verbal–Cognitive Scaffold (Vcs) Model Of Pathways To Computational Thinking, Daisuke Akiba

Publications and Research

This theoretical paper introduces the Verbal–Cognitive Scaffold (VCS) Model, a cognitively inclusive framework which proposes the cognitive architectures underlying computational thinking (CT). Moving beyond monolithic theories of cognition (e.g., executive-function and metacognitive control models), the VCS Model posits inner speech (InSp) as the predominant cognitive pathway supporting CT operations in neurotypical populations. Synthesizing interdisciplinary scholarship across cognitive science, computational theory, neurodiversity research, and others, this framework articulates distinct mechanisms through which InSp supports CT. The model specifies four primary pathways linking InSp to CT components: verbal working memory supporting decomposition, symbolic representation facilitating pattern recognition and abstraction, sequential processing enabling …


Extensions Of Weighted Integral Inequalities For Ga-Convex Functions In Connection With Fejér’S Result, Muhammad Amer Latif Dec 2025

Extensions Of Weighted Integral Inequalities For Ga-Convex Functions In Connection With Fejér’S Result, Muhammad Amer Latif

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.


The Impact Of Infrastructure Construction And Remodeling Of Cities On Its People' Quality Of Life Miraj District-(Madi-Cairo) As A Geological Heritage Area, Ahmed M.E. Hammad Dec 2025

The Impact Of Infrastructure Construction And Remodeling Of Cities On Its People' Quality Of Life Miraj District-(Madi-Cairo) As A Geological Heritage Area, Ahmed M.E. Hammad

Mansoura Engineering Journal

Rapid urbanization is increasing globally, the urbanization rate expected to rise to more than 66% by 2050. (According to UN estimates) the increasing rates of urbanization in the world means adding 2.5 billion people to the urban population within a short period. Which necessitates increasing the traffic axes and the rest of the networks in terms of lengths and widths within the existing cities, and with the presence of the population during these works - despite their inevitability - the quality of their urban life is affected socially, naturally and economically. the research monitors these effects and the extent of …


Final Butte Mine Waste Repository Geotechnical Investigation Work Plan, Pioneer Technical Services, Inc. Dec 2025

Final Butte Mine Waste Repository Geotechnical Investigation Work Plan, Pioneer Technical Services, Inc.

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.


Quality Improvement Project: Educating Nursing Faculty On Medication Administration Labs To Improve Student Competency, Chelsea Pacheco Dec 2025

Quality Improvement Project: Educating Nursing Faculty On Medication Administration Labs To Improve Student Competency, Chelsea Pacheco

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Medication administration errors are a leading cause of preventable harm in healthcare. Faculty play a critical role in ensuring nursing students develop the knowledge and confidence to give medications safely. A needs assessment at the project site revealed that only course coordinators were teaching medication administration and dosage calculation, leaving other faculty uncertain about how to teach these skills. This quality improvement project aimed to strengthen faculty confidence and create consistency in first-year instruction through a recorded educational video. Constructivist Learning Theory provided the foundation for active, experience-based learning. Lewin’s Change Theory guided the structured implementation process to support adoption …


Bridging Boundaries: Integration Of Culturally Relevant Resources, James D. Ware, Evan W. Stokes Dec 2025

Bridging Boundaries: Integration Of Culturally Relevant Resources, James D. Ware, Evan W. Stokes

Northwest Journal of Teacher Education

This qualitative study examines the impact of culturally relevant resources on student engagement, motivation, and academic achievement in a language arts classroom. Since school curricula are increasingly scrutinized for their ability to reflect the historical and cultural diversity of student populations, this study investigates how integrating culturally relevant pedagogy can enhance learning outcomes. The study explores the student impact of blending culturally relevant teaching materials with traditional educational frameworks to foster a more inclusive and equitable classroom environment. By analyzing student feedback from a writing-intensive English course that utilized culturally relevant resources, the study seeks to provide insights into how …