Rate My Professor Mohammad Dastmalchi

Dastmalchi's research centers on collaborative design thinking and the impacts of immersive technologies, including virtual reality, augmented reality, and extended reality, on designers' communication, processes, cognition, and perception. His work explores virtual embodiment's effects on spatial comprehension, embodied cognition, integration of immersive technologies in WEB3 and the Metaverse, design cognition and creativity, environment and behavior, cross-cultural design processes, team cognition, generative AI in design, and embodied learning. Key publications include "Creativity on the move: Exploring little-c (p) and big-C (p) creative events within a multidisciplinary design team process" co-authored with N. D'souza in Design Studies (2016); "Architectural Creativity Stranded at Mid Journey? Evaluating Creative Potential of Prompts and Images in Generative AI" in Design Computing and Cognition '24 (2024); "Embodied learning in virtual reality: Comparing direct and indirect interaction effects on educational outcomes" presented at the 2024 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference; and "Virtual Reality as a Communication Medium: Investigating the Impact of Virtual Embodiment on Various Stakeholders of an Architecture Project" (University of Missouri-Columbia, 2022). In his teaching of the final interior architecture studio at KU, Dastmalchi employs human-centered design principles and empathic communication, using VR systems to help students assess designs from end-users' perspectives.