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Table 4. (Continued)
Parameters/questions Themes Codes Example
Feedback from “During the studio, we invite the code reviewers... to come and give feedback
professionals to the students.”
Students miscalculating Egress “At least for interior designers, that’s always been a challenge to try and get
building codes them to understand what a common path to travel means.”
ADA “You know, there are all sorts of ADA and, you know, access things that they
miss because there’s so much to know about it.”
Corridors “The dead-end corridor issue is always a big one.”
Floor openings “They really do not understand floor-to-floor openings.”
Hand drafting “Then if you get that far in and have to fix it, then you have to erase your table
and your chairs and all the wood grain that you did and all the shading and
then redraw it.”
Prevention Early feedback “So, it would have saved me a lot of time if I were able to double-check that
measures before going through all the rendering stages.”
Grading “We actually try to grade codes pretty early as a preliminary submission, so
that we catch that stuff.”
Design progress updates “Get set up with the information that they need so that they don’t have to keep
going back and fixing and changing and changing.”
Errors Time-consuming “I mean that can set them back like 10 or 20 h or something, just way, way
time-consuming.”
Reluctant to fix “The hard part is they’re reluctant to make the changes they need to make it right.”
Time management “If they mess it up, it’s mostly just because they were in a hurry because they
didn’t put in the time.”
Learning process “I was teaching sophomore-level studio when, you know, messing up was
really part of the learning process for them.”
How much would References Software “I think our students pay for other software, like Rhino. And I think there are,
students pay for the there are a few other ones that they pay.”
problem to go away?
Code book “I think it can be, if it’s comparable to the price of a book, it might be
affordable.”
Free “I think if it’s free, obviously it’s better.”
Student discount “I don’t know if students would be willing to, or maybe if they got some sort of
student discount.”
Subscription Monthly versus yearly “I think if I were going to have to pay for it, being able to choose either
monthly or yearly, having both of those would be nice.”
Trial “Okay, I’ll pay $4.99 this month to see if I like it, and then if I like it and use it
a lot, then I’ll pay the $60.00 for a year.”
University Tuition “Maybe paid for by the university. So, it’s like a service provided to the students
as part of that tuition.”
Department license “I think if our department purchased a subscription to an app-type service
that we can then share with the students. Probably they would be more likely
to engage with that.”
One-time “I would think probably a one-time payment would be better for students.”
payment
Reasons for Cheaper “If there were an alternative to that that allowed them to access the same
purchase information for a cheaper price, they would be interested in that.”
Helpful “I think this would be something that would be really helpful for faculty. I
think the students would be very receptive toward it.”
Class requirement “Faculty could also, you know, incorporate it into the resource requirements for
a class, if it was something the faculty wanted to require the students to all have.”
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