UTD Creative Coding Fall 2020
Creative Processing to Enhance Experiential Acceptance
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Creative Processing to Enhance Experiential Acceptance
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Fall 2020 Creative Coding Presentation - Karen Doore: Video Link
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In designing coding projects for an object-oriented programming course for undergraduate media designers, I feel there is value in introducing students to the idea of a subjective-oriented approach to creative programming. I will provide an overview of a programming project where I have students identify a personally stressful situation, then students create a mind map to visualize the complexity of their experienced emotions such that some positive and negative emotions with antithetical relationships can be identified as being associated with the situation. Then students create custom PShapes, and use the Processing map( ) function to parameterize relationship of mouse-movement, with color, size gradients, to make an interactive version of an exploration of these emotions. This provides a way for students learn to identify, express, and process their emotions and feelings while learning some techniques to enhance emotion regulation. Giving students a meta-level approach to develop the ability to accept and process negative emotions is critical to embodied learning and growth. Recent stress reduction research has shown that learning to accept one’s experiences produces measurable stress-reduction effects, where acceptance is seen as an important mechanism of emotion regulation. For experience design students, before one can design experiences for others, it’s best to find methods to explore one’s own inner-world of embodied thoughts and emotions.
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