Engineering Education meets Human-Computer Interaction (HCI): Exploring how the work on "probes" can guide the design of reflection activities.

Reflecting on educational experiences is widely understood as an essential component of learning and development of expertise for both educators and students. However, incorporating reflection in a way that engages engineering students can be challenging, and educators seek ways to design or introduce effective and efficient reflective practices that best address this issue. In this paper, we describe three example case studies that use the concept of probes and we analyze their potential for stimulating reflection to help identify new ways of supporting reflection in engineering education. Our goal is to introduce engineering educators to the concept of probes as a method to support students' reflection and also to inspire and facilitate collaboration between engineering educators and HCI practitioners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]