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Compass For The Voyage Of Ideation：Unlocking The Stimulation Potential Of Service Design Heuristics, Zihan Zhou, Renke He, Ying Hu, Xing Du, Yiming Bai

IASDR Conference Series

Design heuristics facilitate the generation of innovative solutions by pooling expert knowledge and experience through external stimuli. While heuristic tools have been widely studied in various design domains, most research has focused on evaluating their efficacy in enhancing creativity and usability rather than examining how they stimulate the the process of design. In this study, based on Service Design Heuristic Cards (SDHC), we explored the stimulating effects of design heuristics on the ideation process, filling a relevant research gap. We confirmed the existence of four types of stimulation of heuristic tools, compared the effects of stimuli on different levels of …

Enhancing Elderly With Communication Impairments: Exploring Visual And Voice Communication Tools, Fang Suey Lin, Hong-Chun Shi

IASDR Conference Series

Non-verbal communication methods can be employed to assist in communicating with both the elderly with communication impairments and foreign caregivers. This study focuses on the use of vocabulary and sentence construction in daily communication with the care receiver during the nursing process. The study proposes transforming these words into a visual symbol system and designing a graphical interface. Furthermore, the study adds the intervention of the voice pen tool to facilitate the care receiver in visually expressing their symptoms, pain, and needs to communicate with nurses and foreign caregivers. The communication tools were graphically designed and used with the voice …

Tracking Acts Of Kindness Through Comics: An Experimental Study, Raven Serenity Glover, Yvette Shen

IASDR Conference Series

This study explores the effectiveness of using comics as a medium to track personal behavioral data, focusing on acts of kindness. Through a prototype-based examination of digitally assembled comics, the findings demonstrate that comics offer a unique communication method that enables the integration of narrative elements into the flow of behavioral data. This integration not only provides coherence and context to qualitative data but also allows for the visualization of spatial-temporal details, presenting data in a personal and meaningful manner. However, user evaluation results suggest that the prototype did not provide an ideal platform for sustainable interactive experiences. Future study …

Taller Than The Trees: Growing A Biophilic Sensibility In A Photo-Graphic Design Studio Course, Peter Kwok Chan, Ben Mccorkle, Noor Danielle Murteza

IASDR Conference Series

Informed by Edward Wilson’s (1984) concept of biophilia, this paper describes a biophilic approach to teaching an introductory visual communication design course built specifically around the theme of tree stories. Drawing upon various subject matter experts and disciplinary perspectives, this course demonstrates high-impact teaching practices, including collaboration, experiential learning, and developing long-term projects. This paper describes the course design, includes a selection of student work produced in the course, and highlights student reflections. End-of-course reflections show that students developed an awareness of the impact trees have on humanity, and vice versa. Students grew to better understand their role and identity …

Utilizing Ambiguous Visual Stimuli For Creative Expression In Collaborative Teamwork, Iyad Alsabouni, Hisayasu Ihara

IASDR Conference Series

This ongoing study aims to support non-artistic team members in actively participating in the game concept art process. The method builds on our previous research that used ambiguous visual stimuli, such as inkblots, to generate character design ideas. To cater to a wider audience with varying degrees of artistic ability, simple forms of inkblots are used as building blocks that can be arranged in any desired way. The study aims to determine the ideal balance between the distortion and clarity of visual stimuli to achieve maximum visual intrigue in design. The method blends error and accuracy through visual ambiguity, allowing …

Yearning For Revival_Using Healing As The Linking Strategy To Recreate Emotionally Resilient Communities, Tanhao Gao, Yujia Liu, Lingyu Zhu, Hongtao Zhou, Li Zhang

IASDR Conference Series

COVID-19 and Omicron variants have caused unprecedented impacts on global operating systems, society was forced to accept a painful coexistence with the pandemic, and the derived economic, social, and cultural disasters have left communities plagued by the "Long Covid" aftermath and psychological pressure. Worse still, society has witnessed an increasingly severe problem between spaces and services, including delayed regeneration, disorganization, and isolation. Therefore, it has become crucial and urgent to discover linking strategies between spaces and services, residents and communities, and the broader interrelated field during the recovery and change transition. Through comparative theoretical analysis, we identify the conceptual definition, …

Unleashing A Creative Explosion: Channeling Expert Strategy Into Service Design Heuristic Cards, Zihan Zhou, Renke He, Ying Hu, Yiming Bai, Xing Du, Qin Wang

IASDR Conference Series

Cultivating creativity is the central problem of all design education, including service design education. Obtaining design knowledge is an effective method to improve students' creativity. Despite the availability of various service design tools, these tools tend to focus more on analyzing and describing services. It is still tricky for inexperienced service design novices to overcome design fixation and experience limitations and generate innovative design solutions. This study developed a novel service design tool, Service Design Heuristic Cards (SDHC), which assist novice designers in concept generation by conveying expert knowledge. The article provides a detailed description of the tool development process …

Features Of Chinese Design Research: An “Object-Paradigm” Interactive Relationship Perspective, Yuhao Jiang, Fangzhou Gu, Danhua Zhao

IASDR Conference Series

How we conceive of design research has changed significantly. Scholars have explored this topic from the perspectives of the boundaries of the influence of the design profession and the shift of design paradigms. However, research on the evolution and features of design research in China has yet to make its mark on the international design research stage. Based on the National Social Science Foundation Art Project's promotion of Chinese design research, an "Object-Paradigm" analysis framework is constructed, revealing an interactive relationship between objects and paradigms of Chinese design research: a well-defined research paradigm focuses on a particular object, and specific …

Inclusive Harmonies: Co-Creating Accessible Music Experiences With Deaf Or Blind Advisors Through Interdisciplinary Design Workshop, Yun Wang, Yuyao Zhang, Junrong Zhang, Zijin Li

IASDR Conference Series

Music activities have been shown to enhance the self-development and social participation of individuals with disabilities, yet current assistive technologies and devices are unable to provide them with a satisfactory music experience. This paper presents a design workshop aimed at exploring innovative ways for blind or deaf people to better perceive, perform and create music, as well as a workshop approach to design innovative music installations through co-creation activities. The three-week workshop included an ice-breaking and team-building week, an ideation and co-creation week, and a final week for prototyping, testing, and showcasing. Multidisciplinary teams were formed and a group of …

E-Motioning: Exploring The Effects Of Emotional Generative Visuals On Creativity And Connectedness During Videoconferencing, Tianqin Lu, Jun Hu

IASDR Conference Series

Videoconferencing has become an essential part of business life, and the trend of remote collaboration is set to continue in the future. However, research has shown that the lack of social cues in videoconferencing negatively impacts human social connectedness and hinders the production of creative ideas. Therefore, E-Motioning has been proposed as a system that generates geometrical-based visuals according to users’ real-time emotions, and these visuals are used, as backgrounds for videoconferencing. An experiment was conducted with twenty-four participants to examine the effects of E-Motioning on creativity and connectedness in Microsoft Teams compared to a control condition that uses the …

Improving The Healthcare Experience: Developing A Comprehensive Patient Health Record (Phr), Christine O'Dell, Sandra Gabriele

IASDR Conference Series

Digital technology has permeated every aspect of our lives, including the way in which our health records are managed. Currently, healthcare providers are responsible for maintaining records with limited access or control for patients. However, because of the siloed structure of the healthcare system in Canada, patients have little access or control of their medical information Our previous research focused on understanding the patient experience and revealed pain points within their care journey. The key recommendation was to design a comprehensive patient medical record (PMR) which would give patients ownership of their health information. In response, we created a mobile …

Experience Design’S Transformation Towards Experience-Driven Transformation: A Practical Perspective, Michael T. Lai, Hsien-Hui Tang

IASDR Conference Series

Over the past two decades, rapid economic development has transformed the practice of user experience. This article reflects on the evolution of the experience economy in China and the development of the experience strategy, from a design perspective, to address the challenges of an increasingly competitive market. The case study of a leading design consultancy in Shanghai, China, demonstrates how user experience (UX) design has evolved into experience strategy by 2023. The article presents four phases of user experience transformation to illustrate changes in problems and solutions and an Experience Strategy framework to elaborate on issues that designers should focus …

An Interdisciplinary Design Framework For Creative Collaboration, Siyu Zha, Di Zhao, Meng Li, Wei Gong, Qingyu Hu, Zhongsheng Li

IASDR Conference Series

Design education is interdisciplinary in its nature, yet how to facilitate productive and authentic design processes that encourage creative collaboration within a heterogenous group needs further investigation as well as empirical evidence. This study first reviews existing frameworks and the educational factors that affect its creativity and productivity; then constructs a framework for organizing interdiscplinary workshop aimed at leveraging collective creativity through the theme of multi-modal book design for children. Qualitative empirical data was collected and analyzed in accordance to the framework. Finally, we present principals and elements for consideration when conducting an interdisciplinary approaches to design experience that foster …

Codesign Facilitation For Workforce Satisfaction, Kimberly Tsen, Mauricio Mejía, Danielle Foushee, Michelle Fehler

IASDR Conference Series

In the current work environment, businesses are expecting more than the workforce can provide. This gap in expectation is leading to higher rates of resignation due to increased burnout. To further understand this issue, strategic design methods were utilized as part of the research process. By studying the historical reasons behind these shifts, and interviewing employees that experienced burnout, paradoxically, strategic design methods were also determined to be the solution. A company will go through a design journey facilitated by a strategic design studio so that the unique differences in each company culture are considered. A workshop that is a …

Fictional Brand Design. Evolution, Strategies, And An Attempt To A History Of Visual Identities In Audiovisual Narratives., Francesco E. Guida, Lorenzo Bernini

IASDR Conference Series

Brands tell stories to affirm their values, positioning, and identity. They tell stories that allow people to recognise themselves in them, to share them, to feel part of them. That occurs in the real world as in the world of fiction. The term fictional branding refers to the design and use of brands that do not refer to any existing service, product, company or organisation. They can include any brand referring to products or commercial services, political institutions, military organisations, and more. This paper aims to offer a comprehensive look at the topic through historical and theoretical research and analyse …

The Rider (2023-10-09), Natalie Lapsley

The Rider Archives

Vol.9 No.7

Aim110.1 23t3 Project Documentation Exemplar C Example 1, Sae University College

Exemplars

AIM110.1 23T3 Project Documentation Exemplar C

Focal Modulation Network For Lung Segmentation In Chest X-Ray Images, Şaban Öztürk, Tolga Çukur

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Segmentation of lung regions is of key importance for the automatic analysis of Chest X-Ray (CXR) images, which have a vital role in the detection of various pulmonary diseases. Precise identification of lung regions is the basic prerequisite for disease diagnosis and treatment planning. However, achieving precise lung segmentation poses significant challenges due to factors such as variations in anatomical shape and size, the presence of strong edges at the rib cage and clavicle, and overlapping anatomical structures resulting from diverse diseases. Although commonly considered as the de-facto standard in medical image segmentation, the convolutional UNet architecture and its variants …

A Novel Approach Of Residue Neutrosophic Technique For Threshold Based Image Segmentation, Vinoth D, Ezhilmaran Devarasan

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

October 4, 2023 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.

Reputation Themes From Communication Perspective: A Qualitative Systematic Review, Omar Abu Arqoub

Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Research in Higher Education مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية للبحوث في التعليم العالي

The article aimed to systematically review communication reputation-related research to shape the reputation literature from a communication perspective. After investigating several databases, a total of 366 peer-reviewed communication journal articles focusing on reputation were selected based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria of the study. A qualitative text mining and thematic analysis approach was conducted using the NVivo program to examine the most frequently used words and major emergent themes. The results revealed that the topmost frequently repeated words in communication reputation-focused articles were “crisis,” “public,” “reputation,” “communication,” “media,” and “relations.” Also, this study discussed the six major themes that …

Strategic Plan For The Honors College At Marshall University, 2023, Honors College, Brian A. Hoey

Publications of the Honors College at Marshall University

Beginning with a consideration of our broader institutional and communal contexts and informed by wide-ranging internal and external data collection and analysis, the first five-year strategic plan of the Honors College at Marshall University sets overarching priorities and defined goals that together are intended to deepen community connections, expand recruitment efforts, support greater access and inclusion while increasing retention, develop a more engaging, flexible, and valuable curriculum, and through securing greater material and human resources, to raise the college’s ability to serve as an equal partner in the provision of service to other units on campus. Our overarching goal is …

Wright State University Magazine, Fall 2023, Wright State Alumni Association And Wright State Foundation

Wright State University Magazine

Fifty-two page issue of the Wright State University Magazine. This magazine is published twice a year and focuses on news related to Wright State alumni, faculty, staff, and friends of the university.

Contributors

Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance

No abstract provided.

‘The Table’, Exploration And Discussion On The Future Form Of Board Games, Boyuan Zheng

Theses

Board games, also known as tabletop games, are one of the most popular forms of games ever invented in history. Over time, the game designs have become more intricate, as have the physical game sets, resulting in larger and larger boxes. However, in a world where portability and intelligence are key factors in technology, digitalization appears to be the way forward. This project aims to explore the essence of board games and envision a possible future of board game system digitalization with existing or foreseeable technologies.

Understanding Stakeholder Experiences With Visual Communication In Environmental Impact Assessment, Ana R. De Oliveira, Sofia Bento, Maria Partidário, Angus Morrison-Saunders

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Visual communication is widely and commonly used in environmental impact assessment (EIA) practice by all stakeholders. It includes maps, photographs, tables, info-graphics and other images used in environmental impact statements, as well as videos and graphics in online materials or in face-to-face consultation sessions (e.g., posters and PowerPoint presentations). The purpose of this research was to understand the practice of visual communication in EIA, focusing upon the perceptions and experiences of stakeholders. Surveys were conducted with international EIA practitioners along with observations of consultation sessions for three EIA projects in Portugal and interviews with proponents, regulators and members of the …

Full Issue, The Stimulus Team

Stimulus: A Medical Humanities Journal

No abstract provided.

Dynamic Deep Neural Network Inference Via Adaptive Channel Skipping, Meixia Zou, Xiuwen Li, Jinzheng Fang, Hong Wen, Weiwei Fang

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Deep neural networks have recently made remarkable achievements in computer vision applications. However, the high computational requirements needed to achieve accurate inference results can be a significant barrier to deploying DNNs on resource-constrained computing devices, such as those found in the Internet-of-things. In this work, we propose a fresh approach called adaptive channel skipping (ACS) that prioritizes the identification of the most suitable channels for skipping and implements an efficient skipping mechanism during inference. We begin with the development of a new gating network model, ACS-GN, which employs fine-grained channel-wise skipping to enable input-dependent inference and achieve a desirable balance …

Creator Biographies, The Stimulus Team

Stimulus: A Medical Humanities Journal

No abstract provided.

Curriculum Subcommittee Agenda October 5, 2023, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

• Approval of Minutes - September 7, 2023
• Program Proposals
• Semester Course Approval Reviews
• Other Business
• Adjourn: 3:00 pm