Research

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Word-cloud of key terms from my publications in the last 6 years

Please see a full list of my publications on Google Scholar (listed from most recent). 

Work in progress and papers under review

  • Software design agility: Towards a theoretical a basis and next steps 
  • Contextual influences on trade-offs in engineering design: A qualitative study
  • Analyzing problem framing in design teams: A systems mapping approach
  • Collaborative design at hackathons: Unveiling the designer role and experience in hackathon teams
  • Student perceptions and attitudes towards engineering design in work-integrated learning contexts
  • Text mining undergraduate engineering programs' applications: The role of gender, nationality, and socio-economic status. (preprint)

Recent representative publications

Sakib, A.S., Hurst, A., & Safayeni, F. (2024) Towards AI-assisted protocol analysis in design research: Automating question labelling with GPT-4 according to Eris' (2004) taxonomy. Design Computing and Cognition'24. Design Cognition and Computing (DCC'24) (PDF)

Rennick, C., Litster, G., Hulls, C.C., & Hurst, A. (2023) Curricular hackathons for engineering design learning: The case of Engineering Design DaysIEEE Transactions on Education, 66(6), 654-664.

Johnson, J., Hurst, A. & Safayeni, F. (2023) Managing data-driven design: A survey of the literature and future directions. ICED'23, July, 2023.

Hurst, A., Lin, S., Treacy, C., Nespoli, O.G. & Gero, J.S. (2023) Comparing academics and practitioners Q & A tutoring in the engineering design studioICED'23, July, 2023. [Reviewers' Favourite award]

Nickel, J., Rennick, C., Litster, G., Hulls, C.C.W., & Hurst, A. (2023) A qualitative investigation of students’ design experiences in a work-integrated learning setting. ICED'23, July, 2023.

Litster, G., Hurst, A., & Cardoso, C. (2023) A systems thinking inspired approach to understanding design activity. In: Gero, J.S. (eds) Design Computing and Cognition'22. DCC 2022. Springer, Cham., pp. 183-201. (PDF

Nickel, J., Duimering, P. R. & Hurst, A. (2022) Manipulating the design space to resolve trade-offs: Theory and evidence, Design Studies, 79, 101095.

Lister, G., Hurst, A. & Pretti, T. J. (2021) Surveying design skill development in work-integrated learning experiences: A review of the literature. Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED'21), Gothenberg, Sweden, pp. 2851-2860.   [Reviewers' Favourite award]

Nespoli, O., Hurst, A. & Gero, J. S. (2021) Exploring tutor–student interactions in a novel virtual design studio. Design Studies, 75. 

Bayley, T., Wheatley, D. & Hurst, A (2021) Assessing a novel problem-based learning approach with game elements in a business analytics courseDecision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 19(3), 185-196. [Best research paper in DSJIE in 2021; DSJIE top-cited article in 2021-2022 ]

Flus, M. & Hurst, A. (2021) Design at hackathons: New opportunities for design research.  Design Science, 7, E4.

Litster, G. , & Hurst, A. (2021). Protocol analysis in engineering design education research: observations, limitations, and opportunities. Studies in Engineering Education, 1(2), pp. 14–30. 

Cardoso, C., Hurst, A., & Nespoli, O., (2020). Reflective Inquiry in Design Reviews: The Role of Question-Asking During Exchanges of Peer Feedback. International Journal of Engineering Education, 36(2), pp. 614-622.

Hurst, A., Nespoli, O. G., Abdellahi, S., & Gero, J. S., (2019). A Comparison of Design Activity of Academics and Practitioners Using the FBS Ontology: A Case Study, in Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED19), Delft, The Netherlands, 5-8 August 2019.