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Mapping Urban Regeneration Through Multiple Dimensions Of Temporality: A Visual Analysis Of Three Approaches To Theory Of Change, Hadas Zohar, Luca Simeone, Amalia De Götzen, Nicola Morelli Oct 2023

Mapping Urban Regeneration Through Multiple Dimensions Of Temporality: A Visual Analysis Of Three Approaches To Theory Of Change, Hadas Zohar, Luca Simeone, Amalia De Götzen, Nicola Morelli

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This paper analyses some visual aspects of three Theory of Change maps, i.e. logic planning models used to explore and abstractly represent a potential change in a way that reflects a complex and systemic understanding of development. Theory of Change emerged in the field of philanthropic initiatives and is based on two streams of work: evaluation and informed social practice. The Theory of Change maps analysed in this paper are created to support complex urban regeneration projects within the context of T-Factor, a four-year innovation action funded by the European Commission and taking place in six cities under regeneration across …

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Study On Key Elements Of Kids Cartoon Design In Min-Nam (Hokkien) Language, Hsi-Jen Chen, Chian-Fan Liou, Chih-Yuan Cheng, Ya-Zhu Zhang Oct 2023

Study On Key Elements Of Kids Cartoon Design In Min-Nam (Hokkien) Language, Hsi-Jen Chen, Chian-Fan Liou, Chih-Yuan Cheng, Ya-Zhu Zhang

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As the global markets communicate in a swift speed, the mainstream culture has outweighed the regional cultures. The most effective way to pass down cultures to next generations is have children get involved with listening and speaking from the media, especially the cartoon animations. It has played an important part in each kid’s childhood and his/her development. How to create the most influential regional kids cartoon expressing its local culture is the main study topic in this article. This study is trying to work out the key element design for local kid's cartoon animations in Min-nam language in Taiwan through …

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Co-Designing For Whom? Exploring The Benefits Of City-Led Participatory Art Practices In Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods Of Madrid, Milagros Hurtig Oct 2023

Co-Designing For Whom? Exploring The Benefits Of City-Led Participatory Art Practices In Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods Of Madrid, Milagros Hurtig

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This research examines who benefits from the use of city-led participatory design projects in disadvantaged neighborhoods. After the neoliberal crisis in 2008, discourses on creativity evolved from art projects aimed at pursuing economic growth to art projects with social and cultural aspirations. Participatory art projects are practices where the public is involved in the design and production of the artwork. Urban governments in Europe have used participatory art due to their assumed potential to enhance citizen engagement. However, there is a lack of critical and evaluative insight regarding the implementation and after-use of codesign practices and their inclusionary or exclusionary …

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Dualities Of Co-Design In The Context Of Dementia: Can Handover Approaches Provide An Answer?, Lieke Lenaerts, Niels Hendriks, Andrea Wilkinson Oct 2023

Dualities Of Co-Design In The Context Of Dementia: Can Handover Approaches Provide An Answer?, Lieke Lenaerts, Niels Hendriks, Andrea Wilkinson

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Is co-design together with people with dementia always feasible? Designing for people with dementia is challenging, and co-design has been widely recognised as an effective approach to design products conform to participants’ needs. The inclusion of people with dementia provides designers with an authentic representation of dementia, regardless of stereotypes and assumptions. However, it is not always easy to implement co-design with people with dementia in practice. This paper examines the feasibility of co-design with people with dementia through reflective practice, semi-structured interviews with designers, and a rapid literature review. The study identifies three dualities of co-design, addressing three benefits …

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Towards A Design Observatory In Portugal – Results, Reflections And Future Steps, Nina Costa, Vasco Branco, Rui Costa, Afonso Borges, Marlene Ribeiro Oct 2023

Towards A Design Observatory In Portugal – Results, Reflections And Future Steps, Nina Costa, Vasco Branco, Rui Costa, Afonso Borges, Marlene Ribeiro

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The closure of the Portuguese design center in 2013, left Portugal with no instruments of mediation between the Portuguese design ecosystem and the socio-economic fabric. DesignOBS (Towards a design observatory in Portugal) - a research project aiming to identify, map and interpret the Portuguese design landscape (2019-22), aimed to tackle this issue via the development and application of a distributed and participatory observation approach, that integrated the knowledge of local nuclei, namely, design schools, about certain vectors of the national design ecosystem. The application of this approach to gather and discuss about the different vectors (design companies, education, research, users), …

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Transformative Effects Of Co-Design: The Case Of The “My Architect And I” Project, Audrey Mertens, Çiğdem Yönder, Yaprak Hamarat, Catherine Elsen Oct 2023

Transformative Effects Of Co-Design: The Case Of The “My Architect And I” Project, Audrey Mertens, Çiğdem Yönder, Yaprak Hamarat, Catherine Elsen

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In this paper, we present a co-design process intended to develop tools to improve the experience of architectural design services for single-family housing projects in Belgium. Our main goal is to identify the transformative effects of this co-design process from the lens of the experiences of participants. This paper is based on focus groups conducted with architects and user-clients for post-evaluation of the process. Findings include insights on (i) their experiences during the co-design process; on (ii) transformative effects such as changes in perspective (including empathy) and practice; and on (iii) ownership of the project and its outputs. This paper …

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‘Becommoning': A Design-Framework For The Initiation Of New Commons, Zsuzsanna Tomor, Martijn De Waal Oct 2023

‘Becommoning': A Design-Framework For The Initiation Of New Commons, Zsuzsanna Tomor, Martijn De Waal

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This article explores the establishment of new commons initiatives from an integrated design perspective. Such a deeper understanding of the initial phase of becoming a commons -i.e. becommoning- and its design is crucial as members embark on a laborious, time-consuming and uncertain process in which they need to make critical design choices for their future commons. The design perspective is brought forward by the collective creation through which group values are explicated, the communal resource and its governance take shape and conditions are forged for the commons to emerge. So, the study presents the ‘becommoning’ framework as a first exploration …

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Performance Evaluation Of Qwerty Keyboards On Foldable Smartphones: Keyboard Layout And Phrase Complexity, Mengya Dai, Jun Zhang, Ningyi Dai, Ke Liang, Le Du, Qi Chen Oct 2023

Performance Evaluation Of Qwerty Keyboards On Foldable Smartphones: Keyboard Layout And Phrase Complexity, Mengya Dai, Jun Zhang, Ningyi Dai, Ke Liang, Le Du, Qi Chen

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Recently, foldable smartphones have won attentions. QWERTY keyboard as the main input method contains two layouts: standard and split. Performance comparison of two layouts is lacking. This research studied how standard and split layout affected performance of QWERTY keyboard input on foldable smartphones, with phrase complexity and language difference under consideration. 16 testers were requested to text in 80 different phrases that covered all influencing factors above. Input time per phrase, words per minute, corrected errors, uncorrected error rates, and perceived usability were five criteria under analysis. It turned out that split layout lowered error rate at the cost of …

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The Russia-Ukraine War And Climate Change: Analysis Of One Year Of Data-Visualisations, Marta Ferreira, Nuno Nunes, Chiara Ceccarini, Catia Prandi, Valentina Nisi Oct 2023

The Russia-Ukraine War And Climate Change: Analysis Of One Year Of Data-Visualisations, Marta Ferreira, Nuno Nunes, Chiara Ceccarini, Catia Prandi, Valentina Nisi

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The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 escalated a conflict that began in 2014, resulting in massive casualties and the largest refugee crisis since World War II. The war has also disrupted global food and energy trade, significantly impacting the environment, including damage to critical infrastructure, increased greenhouse gas emissions, and dire consequences on biodiversity and environmental health – connecting the war to climate change. Effective communication is crucial in helping the public understand and feel engaged with these complex topics. This study aims to understand how the research communities and broader media have linked the war to climate …

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Threshold Space Design: Using Water Element For Phase Transition From Physical Space To Virtual Space With Different Law Of Gravity, Jungryun Kwon, Eui-Chul Jung Oct 2023

Threshold Space Design: Using Water Element For Phase Transition From Physical Space To Virtual Space With Different Law Of Gravity, Jungryun Kwon, Eui-Chul Jung

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This study focuses on exploring the transition stage between physical and virtual space by considering the difference in law of gravity between physical and virtual environments. The concept of Threshold Space design is a series of transition stages which can be utilized to enhance the virtual reality (VR) experience. Unlike most VR researches, which primarily focuses on head-mounted displays (HMD), this study examines the user's perception between physical space and virtual space. The Threshold Space design method allows users to experience the upcoming stage in advance. More than a simple intermediate space, it addresses confusion and disorientation in VR that …

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Designing Visuo-Haptic Illusions For Virtual Reality Applications Using Floor-Based Shape-Changing Displays, Nargiz Askarbekkyzy, Yilong Lin, Kongpyung Moon, Andrea Bianchi, Seungwoo Je Oct 2023

Designing Visuo-Haptic Illusions For Virtual Reality Applications Using Floor-Based Shape-Changing Displays, Nargiz Askarbekkyzy, Yilong Lin, Kongpyung Moon, Andrea Bianchi, Seungwoo Je

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Large-scale haptic displays offer the opportunity to create fully-immersive experiences in Virtual Reality (VR). In particular, floor-based pin-array shape displays allow the creation of worlds with complex textures and walkable terrain patterns. However, the size and resolution of these terrains are typically limited by the physical constraints of the actuating hardware, negatively impacting the designing of VR experiences. To overcome these limitations, we propose the usage of visuo-haptic illusions for floor-based shape displays, effectively creating the illusion for terrains of a larger size and of a higher resolution. Following closely related prior work, we have conducted two user studies with …

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The Use Of Life Cycle Assessment For Lightweight Product Design Based On Functional Unit, Nuria Goldáraz-Salamero, Jorge Sierra-Pérez Oct 2023

The Use Of Life Cycle Assessment For Lightweight Product Design Based On Functional Unit, Nuria Goldáraz-Salamero, Jorge Sierra-Pérez

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The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology has traditionally been a tool to assist in the comparison between design alternatives. Currently, one of the established strategies in product eco-design will be the design of lightweight products. For this purpose, due to the nature of the LCA methodology, based on the inventory of materials in relation to a functional unit of the product, it can have a relevant role in the application of lightweight product design strategy. The present study addresses this approach with the analysis of a retail product, more specifically a supermarket shelf. Starting from a complete LCA with a …

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Developing A Child-Friendly Outdoor Public Playground For Children Aged 4-8, Through Co-Creation Mindset, Neda Batenipour Oct 2023

Developing A Child-Friendly Outdoor Public Playground For Children Aged 4-8, Through Co-Creation Mindset, Neda Batenipour

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Outdoor playgrounds, as part of urban space, with their equipment/settings play an important role in child development. For designing a child-friendly playground, looking at a playground through the eyes of children as end users should be of prime importance for designers. This study presents a new framework and methodology for exploring design parameters based on users’ real needs and wants and finally designs a child-friendly outdoor public playground for children aged 4-8 years old. Existing problems, gaps, and opportunities in Wuppertal’s playgrounds – especially in the Nordbahntrasse and Parkour Park area – provide the rationale and need, as well as …

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An Investigation Into The Product Attachment Between Single-Person Household And Their Home Appliances, Ga-Eul Han, James Andrew Self, Chajoong Kim Oct 2023

An Investigation Into The Product Attachment Between Single-Person Household And Their Home Appliances, Ga-Eul Han, James Andrew Self, Chajoong Kim

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Products that are emotionally bonded are more likely to be successful in the market than those that are not. Emotional bonding is defined as product attachment. It induces positive relationships between user and product by offering a more expansive, holistic approach to design for higher longevity from the sustainability perspective. Although it is an important factor in product development, little research has been done towards understanding product attachment, especially for home appliances. The study aimed to further understanding of product attachment in home appliance design. A total of ten home appliances were selected by cross-mapping of physical interaction density and …

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In-House Designers To Break Out Public Sector Auditing In A Manageable Way, Linda Meijer-Wassenaar, Marjorie Bakker-Joosse Oct 2023

In-House Designers To Break Out Public Sector Auditing In A Manageable Way, Linda Meijer-Wassenaar, Marjorie Bakker-Joosse

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For Supreme Audit Institutions to live up to the expectations of Parliament and the public and meet the needs of the public sector organisations they audit, they need to break out of their traditional knowledge-driven role of public spending watchdogs. Human-centred design offers an alternative to more knowledge: knowledge-in-action. Yet, the current frame of auditors restrains them from experimenting with alternatives. This study shares our experiences as in-house designers at the Netherlands Court of Audit of enriching the current focus on siloed public administration with citizens’ perspectives and of finding alternative ways to increase audit impact. Moreover, we show the …

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Innovative Collaboration And Co-Designing With Santhal And Mohli Tribes Of Dumka, India, Nilanjana Bairagi, Ajithsen Selvadhas, Sowndarya Archarya Oct 2023

Innovative Collaboration And Co-Designing With Santhal And Mohli Tribes Of Dumka, India, Nilanjana Bairagi, Ajithsen Selvadhas, Sowndarya Archarya

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Tribal communities use locally available resources to fulfil their daily needs in India. Santhal and Mohli tribes in Jharkhand, India have an intergenerational skill of using bamboo and other natural fibres to make utility crafts like baskets and mats, which is used as a part of their lifestyle. However, it was limited in terms of product range and market reach, which resulted in the tribes’ livelihood stagnancy and other financial difficulties. Therefore, the objective of this research was design intervention and product development based on collaborative designing, as the researchers were outside of the tribal community. And also to propose …

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Changing Perspective On Social Inclusion And Design: Exploring The Concept Of Designing For Inclusive Attitudes, Daniele Busciantella-Ricci Oct 2023

Changing Perspective On Social Inclusion And Design: Exploring The Concept Of Designing For Inclusive Attitudes, Daniele Busciantella-Ricci

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The pandemic increased disparities and exacerbated pre-existing inequalities. Attitudinal barriers and discrimination were also exacerbated by the pandemic effects. Some diversity conditions suffered more than others post-pandemic status because their needs were not embedded in the pandemic planning prior to COVID-19. Also, the pandemic effects underlined the importance of embedding Inclusion, Diversity, Equality and Accessibility strategies in complex contexts such as in healthcare systems. Therefore, the paper focuses on how improving inclusive attitudes through design for fighting discrimination and promoting diversity in society. However, traditional design for inclusion approaches does not provide instruments to address this aspect. Consequently, the paper …

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Forming Bacterial Cellulose: A Research Activity Exploiting Digital Fabrication Technologies., Patrizia Bolzan, Flavia Papile Oct 2023

Forming Bacterial Cellulose: A Research Activity Exploiting Digital Fabrication Technologies., Patrizia Bolzan, Flavia Papile

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Bacterial Cellulose (BC) is a material gaining increasing interest in design research. Being produced by the fermentation of Kombucha tea, it is classified, as others, as “growing material”. Growing BC offers different research inputs in terms of producing cellulose without extraction practices, reversing the current raw material supply dynamics. By monitoring the materials growth, designers are able to customise shapes, colours, finishes and other aesthetic characteristics of the material while producing it. In this study different experimental activities concerning aesthetic characteristics of grown BC will be presented and discussed. To have a better control on the BC shaping it has …

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We’Ve Never Learned To Talk About It’: Considerations For Design Researchers To Address Intimacy And Sexuality., Yoni Lefévre, Niels Hendriks, Andrea Wilkinson Oct 2023

We’Ve Never Learned To Talk About It’: Considerations For Design Researchers To Address Intimacy And Sexuality., Yoni Lefévre, Niels Hendriks, Andrea Wilkinson

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This paper aims to learn from existing design research literature on taboo topics to inform the development of a research project about sexual health in later life. Participatory design approaches can play a role to better understand the complexities of researching taboos and navigate in sensitive situations. A rapid literature review focused on taboos related to people’s individual sexual experiences of the body, resulted in identifying five actionable design considerations: 1) make taboos visible and interactive for people to respond to, 2) use humor to overcome the awkwardness of taboos, 3) design together on taboo subjects for more inclusive futures, …

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Community Empowerment: Lessons Learned From A Local Health Programme, Mariana Fonseca Braga, Alejandro Moreno-Rangel, Emmanuel Tsekleves Oct 2023

Community Empowerment: Lessons Learned From A Local Health Programme, Mariana Fonseca Braga, Alejandro Moreno-Rangel, Emmanuel Tsekleves

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The use of complex public health systems to empower communities is often met with challenges and frustrations. Community empowerment programmes focus on improving mental and physical health needs, enabling individuals to become active members of the local community through collective actions. Design research plays a crucial role in understanding the interactions between health and communities. Healthier Fleetwood is a successful community empowerment program in the northwest of the UK, that connects residents with local services, groups, and events to foster a sense of community and encourage them to control their health and well-being. The success of this approach and its …

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Olfactory Stimulus As Design Material: Designing An Engaging Interaction Between User And Ai Chatbot, Cecilia Lee Oct 2023

Olfactory Stimulus As Design Material: Designing An Engaging Interaction Between User And Ai Chatbot, Cecilia Lee

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This study explores the lack of user engagement challenge observed in human-AI chatbot interaction from a design research perspective. Olfactory stimulus has the most intimate linkage to the human brains that directly control human emotions, but it has been under-explored as design material for interaction design in human-chatbot interaction. This study inquires into how service designers can leverage the olfactory stimulus as potential design material to design for an interactive experience that enables value co-creation between user and chatbot, which results in enhanced user engagement. The challenge of user engagement is examined through the theoretical lens of service dominant logic …

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Combination Of Experiential Learning To Investigate Design Students’ Design Thinking Ability, Yu-Chen Chen, Hsi-Jen Chen, Chia-Han Yang Oct 2023

Combination Of Experiential Learning To Investigate Design Students’ Design Thinking Ability, Yu-Chen Chen, Hsi-Jen Chen, Chia-Han Yang

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The study investigated the relationship between Experiential Learning and design students’ design thinking ability. Experiential Learning was divided into three modes: grasping experience, transforming experience, and the Learning styles, and design thinking ability was evaluated in four phases, Discover, Define, Develop, and Deliver. One hundred and four undergraduate students (from sophomore to senior) majoring in Industrial Design responded to the Learning Style Inventory-version 3.1 and the design thinking ability questionnaire. Independent Sample t-test and one-way ANOVA were employed to analyze the differences in design thinking ability associated with Experiential Learning. The findings of the study indicated that in the Define …

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Using Ar Hmd In Exhibition: Effects Of Guidance Methods And Spatial Relative Positions, Kexing Wang, Zhenlin Song, Xuanhui Liu, Pei Chen, Lingyun Sun Oct 2023

Using Ar Hmd In Exhibition: Effects Of Guidance Methods And Spatial Relative Positions, Kexing Wang, Zhenlin Song, Xuanhui Liu, Pei Chen, Lingyun Sun

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AR devices have the potential to augment the space of exhibitions, provide flexible and diverse interactions between visitors and exhibits, and enhance the viewing experience. To keep the virtual objects from blocking the real exhibits, the virtual objects may appear out of view and cause extra searching efforts for the visitors. Current studies have provided multiple guidance methods to deal with the out-of-view problem, yet they haven’t provided specific advice in the exhibition scenario. This research conducted a within-subject experiment in an exhibition to compare three kinds of guidance methods (i.e., arrow, radar, and spatial sound) with relative positions covering …

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How Do Psi Labs Establish Legitimacy?: Dynamics, Approaches, And Knowledge Creation, Kazuki Mori, Hironori Iwasaki Oct 2023

How Do Psi Labs Establish Legitimacy?: Dynamics, Approaches, And Knowledge Creation, Kazuki Mori, Hironori Iwasaki

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Public Sector Innovation Labs (PSI labs) have been increasingly established globally in response to the growing complexity of social issues. These labs typically adopt design-oriented approaches, which may engender potential conflicts with existing organizational cultures due to their exploratory nature. While this has led to the discussion on the organizational perspective to overcome such obstacles, previous research has emphasized the managerial layer, and there are limited discussions on establishing legitimacy on the part of PSI labs. To fill this gap, this paper examines the process of establishing legitimacy—how PSI Labs can gain approval, support, or continuous project opportunities from management …

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Design Education 4.0: Technology-Driven Design Futures & The Future Of Design Education, Eujin Pei, Sung Jun Kim, Seongbeom Kim, Daehun Lee, Seunghoon Lee, James Self Oct 2023

Design Education 4.0: Technology-Driven Design Futures & The Future Of Design Education, Eujin Pei, Sung Jun Kim, Seongbeom Kim, Daehun Lee, Seunghoon Lee, James Self

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Design education has always strived to equip future designers the knowledge, skills, and expertise to work at the intersection of applied technology and the people who use it. The difference for contemporary design is the accelerating pace of technological change. Where previous generations expected to use the same core technology throughout their lifetime, users now and into the future will experience significant change within a generation. We report a project aimed at understanding how design education must change to leverage the opportunity of technology-driven design futures. In an international, collaborative project on the future of design education, we report a …

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Creating National Strategy For Circular Design Through Co-Design: An Australian Perspective, Simon Lockrey, Allister Hill, Liam Fennessy, Helen Millicer, Richard Collins, Juliette Anich, Karli Verghese Oct 2023

Creating National Strategy For Circular Design Through Co-Design: An Australian Perspective, Simon Lockrey, Allister Hill, Liam Fennessy, Helen Millicer, Richard Collins, Juliette Anich, Karli Verghese

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For years design has been touted as defining a significant portion of the environmental impacts of everyday products and systems. ‘Sustainability’ has been a lens often chosen to tackle related environmental issues that humanity faces; the Brundtland Report describes sustainable development as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” Design focused on reducing the environmental impacts of materials embedded within products necessitates an engagement in whole systems and aligns with the rise of global product stewardship arrangements, waste export bans, the right-to-repair movement, and the circular economy. …

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Dip Into The Future: Building A Design Curriculum To Enable Design Students To Work With Machine Learning, Zhibin Zhou, Zhuoshu Li, Wenan Li, Yitao Fan, Weitao You Oct 2023

Dip Into The Future: Building A Design Curriculum To Enable Design Students To Work With Machine Learning, Zhibin Zhou, Zhuoshu Li, Wenan Li, Yitao Fan, Weitao You

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Machine learning (ML) is used to enhance an increasing number of intelligent products, yet it is not a well-explored topic in user experience (UX) design education. ML is iteratively trained using collected data and its technical properties (e.g., accuracy rate) constantly change when it is used. It would be extremely difficult for UX design students to understand ML technology, not to mention identify design opportunities around ML, or implement an ML-enhanced design proposal. In particular, the growable nature of ML, such as its unpredictable, ever-changing, and data-driven nature, makes it difficult to apply ML in ideation and prototype. To prepare …

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Designing Ambi-Bracelet - An Interactive Bracelet For Ambient Communication Between Partners, Virve Inget, Heiko Müller, Hong Li Oct 2023

Designing Ambi-Bracelet - An Interactive Bracelet For Ambient Communication Between Partners, Virve Inget, Heiko Müller, Hong Li

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In this paper, we address the theme of future products design, proposed a design for an ambient communication bracelet, which combines digital technology and with jewellery making tradition. The work presents an example of future visions where unobtrusive interactive wearables are used for emotional communication. The paper presents the concept design process and prototype for an interactive jewellery, Ambi-Bracelet. The interactive bracelet is targeted as an aesthetic and simple communication device between couples over distance. The work is especially relevant now, when the COVID-19 pandemic has challenged our way of socialising and communicating with our network of loved ones and …

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Designing Longevity Planning Blocks Through Experimental Participatory Observation And Interviews, Sheng-Hung Lee, Joseph F. Coughlin, Alexa Balmuth, Chaiwoo Lee, Lauren Cerino, Maria Yang, Eric Klopfer, Olivier L. De Weck, John Ochsendorf Oct 2023

Designing Longevity Planning Blocks Through Experimental Participatory Observation And Interviews, Sheng-Hung Lee, Joseph F. Coughlin, Alexa Balmuth, Chaiwoo Lee, Lauren Cerino, Maria Yang, Eric Klopfer, Olivier L. De Weck, John Ochsendorf

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The financial industry is under a transformational shift to cater to the change in our demographics. Between 2015 and 2050, the ratio among the world’s population over 60 years old will nearly double (from 12% to 22%) according to WHO (World Health Organization) data in 2022. Without a doubt, financial planning involves a series of large, complicated challenges, especially considering different countries' political situations, diverse cultures, various birth rates, ethical issues, healthcare systems, emerging technologies, and economic conditions. The study explores how the usage of interactive, tangible artifacts and services, informed by Human-Centered Design and creative process, could empower people …

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Increasing Preventive Care Through Increased Access To Healthy Foods, Danijela Kaurin, Sarah Syed, Bahra Chabo, Gulad Ali, Adam Sagerman, Santosh Basapur Oct 2023

Increasing Preventive Care Through Increased Access To Healthy Foods, Danijela Kaurin, Sarah Syed, Bahra Chabo, Gulad Ali, Adam Sagerman, Santosh Basapur

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Food deserts are areas that lack the availability of fresh, affordable, and nutritious foods. Almost half of the food in the United States of America is wasted every year, yet somehow there are thousands of food deserts. This lack of nutritious food for people of all ages negatively impacts health outcomes as chronic diseases like obesity, diabetes, and heart disease are rising quickly. Preventive care is a practice in which patients take the initiative to make healthier choices in life to prevent the onset or progression of chronic illness. An example of such initiatives is eating and preparing more nutritious …

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