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Exploring Metacognition's Role In Design Process: A Preliminary Study In A Multi-Week Design Course, Yun-Chi Jao, Hsi-Jen Chen Dec 2025

Exploring Metacognition's Role In Design Process: A Preliminary Study In A Multi-Week Design Course, Yun-Chi Jao, Hsi-Jen Chen

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This study explores the relationship between metacognitive activity and the design process among undergraduate design students. Drawing from a structured reflection journal approach within a multi- week design course, the research investigates how students monitor, regulate, and reflect on their design thinking across project stages. Using the Double Diamond model as a process framework and a 4P-based coding system, we identify key metacognitive behavior patterns (e.g., Regulative Monitoring (M1), Process Overview (M3), Continuation or Execution of Existing Actions (R1)) and their contextual variations. Findings suggest that students frequently engage in metacognitive knowledge about strategies and interpersonal dynamics, with notable differences …

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Designing Information Interventions To Support Infant Feeding Autonomy In Multi-Generational Families, Jiayu Wu Dec 2025

Designing Information Interventions To Support Infant Feeding Autonomy In Multi-Generational Families, Jiayu Wu

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Maternal autonomy is often constrained when social, cultural, and familial dynamics influence infant feeding decisions. In mainland China, the widespread promotion of breastfeeding has intersected with multi generational caregiving structures and medical authority to produce a rigid "breast is best" narrative, frequently leaving mothers with little space for negotiation or emotional support. This study explores how information design can serve as a medium for rebalancing feeding-related decision- making within Chinese families. Through a research-through-design process, the study draws on qualitative interviews with mothers and family members and narrative content collected from Xiao hong shu (Rednote), a popular social media platform …

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Exploring Design Contributions To Mental Health Ai: Structuring Clinical Judgment Through Real-Time Data Labeling Interfaces, Jieun Lee, Hwang Kim, Chajoong Kim, Bong-Jin Hahm, Daehun Yoo Dec 2025

Exploring Design Contributions To Mental Health Ai: Structuring Clinical Judgment Through Real-Time Data Labeling Interfaces, Jieun Lee, Hwang Kim, Chajoong Kim, Bong-Jin Hahm, Daehun Yoo

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This study explores how design can contribute to collecting training data for AI models in complex clinical settings, particularly in the context of mental health counseling. Conventional labeling methods only record outcomes, failing to capture moments of expert judgment. This limits AI’s ability to learn the nuances of clinical reasoning. To address this issue, the study draws on the Interactive Machine Teaching (IMT) framework. In collaboration with clinicians, researchers co-designed and iteratively improved a real-time labeling interface. The interface was then refined and used in actual mental health consultations. Using qualitative methods, we examined how the interface influenced judgment and …

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Designing Experiential Futures Through Participatory Practice: Case Studies From Taiwan, Li-Ting Huang, Yen Lun Chen, Yan-Chun Lin, Si Teng Lei, I-Lin Hsiao, Shyhnan Liou Dec 2025

Designing Experiential Futures Through Participatory Practice: Case Studies From Taiwan, Li-Ting Huang, Yen Lun Chen, Yan-Chun Lin, Si Teng Lei, I-Lin Hsiao, Shyhnan Liou

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This study explored how design could enact experiential futures in public issues with participatory contexts through three cases carried out by the Taiwan Design Research Institute. As futures thinking becomes increasingly relevant across civic and policy domains, there is a growing interest in how design can move beyond abstract speculation to make futures tangible and actionable. Specifically, this study examined how participatory workshops allowed participants to pre-experience futures through narratives, scenarios, and prototyping practices. Using the case study method, this study analysed three future-oriented projects addressing future living, future healthcare, and future transportation. Each project corresponds to a distinct level …

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The Missing Link: Understanding Human-Ai Interaction In Fda/Ce-Approved Radiology Tools, Nick Ruijs, Jon R. Pluyter, Lin-Lin Chen, Mathias Funk Dec 2025

The Missing Link: Understanding Human-Ai Interaction In Fda/Ce-Approved Radiology Tools, Nick Ruijs, Jon R. Pluyter, Lin-Lin Chen, Mathias Funk

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AI-based tools are increasingly developed for clinical radiology, offering potential gains in diagnostic accuracy, consistency, and workflow efficiency. Yet adoption remains limited, as many systems lack support for effective human-AI collaboration within complex diagnostic workflows. To address this gap, we visually analysed 17 FDA- and/or CE-certified commercial radiology AI systems, examining how their interface designs operational ize human-AI interaction across three key dimensions: diagnostic task coverage, information richness of AI explanations, and human control mechanisms. Using visual diagramming, typology-based task mapping, and cross-system comparison, we characterize when and how AI outputs are introduced, how understandable they are communicated, and how …

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Service Design In The Public Sector: Applying Experienscape And Nudge Strategies To Animal Adoption Services, Pei-Hsin Shieh, Hsien-Hui Tang Dec 2025

Service Design In The Public Sector: Applying Experienscape And Nudge Strategies To Animal Adoption Services, Pei-Hsin Shieh, Hsien-Hui Tang

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Following the implementation of Taiwan's "zero euthanasia" policy, public animal shelters face rising intake numbers and declining service quality. This study applies service design methodology to optimize adoption services and promote responsible adoption behavior across two public shelters in eastern Taiwan. Using the triple diamond service design model, the research systematically progressed through three phases. The Problem Distillation phase employed experienscape model to identify environmental imbalances across sensory, functional, social, natural, and cultural dimensions. The Design Iteration phase integrated nudge strategies into design interventions, incorporating behavioral guidance approaches such as appropriate incentives and default options. The Practice Diffusion phase validated …

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Posthuman Emotional Well-Being: Rethinking Assistive And Interactive Technologies As Co-Agents, Amic G. Ho Dec 2025

Posthuman Emotional Well-Being: Rethinking Assistive And Interactive Technologies As Co-Agents, Amic G. Ho

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This research study examines the notion of posthuman welfare in communication design, focusing on the affordances of assistive and interactive technologies recontextualised within more-than-human-centred frameworks. The study furthers the ongoing critique of anthropocentrism in design, highlighting the necessity of integrating nonhuman agency and emotive value into technology systems. The study employs a mixed-methods approach that integrates mini-surveys with participatory design workshops, involving actual users, designers, caregivers and advocates for nonhuman perspectives, thereby amalgamating multiple small-scale hands-on methodologies. The findings indicate that emotional design elements – empathy, flexibility and ethical sensitivity – are essential factors for enhancing well-being, attachment and future …

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Embodying The Digital Breath: A Haptic-Audio Approach To Gamified Mindfulness, Chi Yin Kam Dec 2025

Embodying The Digital Breath: A Haptic-Audio Approach To Gamified Mindfulness, Chi Yin Kam

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In contemporary society, escalating stress levels highlight the urgent demand for effective mental health tools, bringing significant attention to mindfulness. However, existing digital mindfulness tools predominantly rely on singular audio-visual guidance, often resulting in a disembodied experience and low user adherence. Approaching from an industrial design perspective, this study investigates how multi-sensory interaction design can transform the abstract practice of breathing into a tangible, embodied experience, thereby enhancing both immersion and efficacy. Our literature review identifies a significant research gap in combining haptics, audio, and gamification to foster immersive mindfulness. To address this, we propose an innovative mobile application concept, …

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Shaping Relaxing Short Videos With Animation Principles: A Preliminary Study On Rhythm And Temporal Expectation, Chia-Chieh Tsai, Yi-Hsuan Li, Ko-Chiu Wu, Chi-Hao Lung Dec 2025

Shaping Relaxing Short Videos With Animation Principles: A Preliminary Study On Rhythm And Temporal Expectation, Chia-Chieh Tsai, Yi-Hsuan Li, Ko-Chiu Wu, Chi-Hao Lung

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This study is based on five selected principles from the Twelve Basic Principles of Animation to design short video breathing guidance interfaces with different combinations of rhythm regularity and temporal expectation. An experiment with thirty participants was conducted to examine how these temporal design factors influence relaxation experience, attentional performance, and cognitive load. Data were collected through EEG recordings, subjective questionnaires, and interviews. The results indicate that interfaces with stable rhythmic structures and clear temporal cues significantly reduced uncertainty and cognitive load, enhanced relaxation, and improved user experience. In contrast, irregular rhythms and the absence of temporal expectation increased cognitive …

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Exploring The Meaning Network In Exhibition Design Of Intangible Cultural Heritage, Zhengyu Chen, Ming Zhong, Tie Ji, Yuqing Chen Dec 2025

Exploring The Meaning Network In Exhibition Design Of Intangible Cultural Heritage, Zhengyu Chen, Ming Zhong, Tie Ji, Yuqing Chen

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In traditional exhibition practice, displays are predominantly object-centered, and information flows remain largely unidirectional, positioning visitors as passive recipients. Under this conventional curatorial paradigm, cultural translation and meaning-making processes are comparatively static and singular. This paper, therefore, seeks to articulate the interrelationships among humans, artifacts, space, and technology, thereby constructing a dynamically participatory and complex system for the expression of cultural, historical, and artistic narratives. Drawing on the proposed “meaning network” model, the author designed the Mianyang Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum, rendering meaning generation more dynamic and information exchange more pluralistic. This approach enhances visitors’ experience and cultural empathy while …

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Cantonese Cultural Identity And Regional Design In Aging-Friendly Products, Xinyan Huang, Kang Huo Dec 2025

Cantonese Cultural Identity And Regional Design In Aging-Friendly Products, Xinyan Huang, Kang Huo

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Abstract: Contemporary design for the elderly often grapples with a dual challenge: a diminishing cultural identity and weakening regional characteristics, issues magnified by the unique psychological and social needs of an aging population. This study constructs a three-dimensional theoretical model encompassing cultural identity, regional ity, and design ethics. Through literature review, user research, and case studies, we reveal the profound impact of Cantonese cultural symbols on the emotional identity of the elderly. We propose four design principles and three design methods to systematically integrate cultural elements into product design. The validity of integrating Lingnan traditional craftsmanship with modern design is …

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An Empathic Design Approach To Understanding Caregivers' Perceptions On Multi-Modal Behavioral Information Of Adults With Intellectual Disabilities, Zhen Zhao, Qian Mao, Yunhe Du, Yu Hin Brian Lee, Wai Man Raymond Sit, Hailiang Wang Dec 2025

An Empathic Design Approach To Understanding Caregivers' Perceptions On Multi-Modal Behavioral Information Of Adults With Intellectual Disabilities, Zhen Zhao, Qian Mao, Yunhe Du, Yu Hin Brian Lee, Wai Man Raymond Sit, Hailiang Wang

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Caregivers of adults with intellectual disabilities (ID) encounter various challenges that lead to stress and burnout. Although multi-modal behavioral information holds potential for improving caregiving efficiency in healthcare, there is still limited research on adapting these technologies to address the unique requirements of ID caregivers. This study employs an empathic design approach to understand the experiences, emotions, needs, and contextual challenges of ID caregivers regarding multi-modal behavioral information systems for adults with ID. Through interviews with 16 formal caregivers (aged from 25 to 62, female=14) in Hong Kong, we identified key challenges in their daily caregiving practice, including addressing non-compliance, …

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Optimistic While Cautious: An Investigation And Reflection On Aigc Usage Influence On Design Attitude Of Product Design Students, Jinghao Hei, Zhenyuan Liu, Jiaying Chai Dec 2025

Optimistic While Cautious: An Investigation And Reflection On Aigc Usage Influence On Design Attitude Of Product Design Students, Jinghao Hei, Zhenyuan Liu, Jiaying Chai

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The concept of Design Attitude extends the inquiry of Design Thinking beyond procedural stages into how designers internalize, negotiate, and perform design values—making it a unique framework for looking into the influence of AIGC on designers and design students. In the light of such argument, this study investigates how the usage of AIGC affects the Design Attitude of product design students. Building on Mich lewskis framework of Design Attitude, this research combines structured questionnaires and focus group interviews to investigate core research questions: Does the usage of AIGC influence product design students' Design Attitude in terms of each dimension? If …

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Healthclockface: Design Of Glanceable Health Data Visualization For Smartwatches, Tianqin Lu, Bin Yu, Jun Hu Dec 2025

Healthclockface: Design Of Glanceable Health Data Visualization For Smartwatches, Tianqin Lu, Bin Yu, Jun Hu

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Remote measurement technologies (RMTs) hold promises for health tracking, yet current health data visualizations in RMTs primarily target data-savvy experts, posing challenges for those with limited expertise. Although researchers have explored creative visualization methods, they often fall short in aiding data comprehension and neglect the needs of individuals and informal caregivers. This paper introduces Health Clockface, a smartwatch clockface that offers a glanceable visualization of health data using abstract and dynamic visuals generated by chaotic attractors. Designed for non-expert users, the system translates real-time inputs into ambient, glanceable feedback that supports awareness of one’s health. The system was developed through …

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Visually Impaired Friendly Design – Exploring The Design Concept Of Guiding Mobility For People With Visual Impairments Using Subtle Light Cues, Min-Chih Chiang, Yi-Shiang Lin Dec 2025

Visually Impaired Friendly Design – Exploring The Design Concept Of Guiding Mobility For People With Visual Impairments Using Subtle Light Cues, Min-Chih Chiang, Yi-Shiang Lin

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This study aims to explore the application of visually impaired-friendly design, focusing on enhancing the mobility and safety of individuals with low vision in urban environments. With the global population aging and the number of people with visual impairments increasing, creating environments that are more inclusive, safe, and accessible has become a pressing issue. Starting from user needs, this research introduces the concept of a smart wearable device that uses variations in the density of faint light dots as navigational cues. The study conducts a multi-faceted analysis through literature review, field observation, and in-depth interviews with three individuals with low …

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Systemic Facilitation For Execution In Process-Centered Living Labs, Hannah Kang, Yong-Ki Lee Dec 2025

Systemic Facilitation For Execution In Process-Centered Living Labs, Hannah Kang, Yong-Ki Lee

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Civic participatory design is widely practiced as a means of engaging communities in addressing complex public challenges (Sanders & Stappers, 2008; Wacnik, Daly, & Verma, 2024). However, a persistent gap remains between participatory ideation and actual implementation (Teal et al., 2022). This study addresses that gap by introducing a systematic facilitation framework with systemic orientation, which guides participants from exploration to execution readiness. Through a ten-session civic Living Lab designed as a real-world participatory setting involving residents, parents, and officials, focused on school route safety in South Korea, the study tested the use of intentionally sequenced facilitation tools referred to …

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The Utilization Of Multimodal Interaction In Social Robots For Elderly Care: Interaction Types, System Architecture, And Purchasing Motivation, Ye Zhang, Yuqi Liu, Liang Xiao Dec 2025

The Utilization Of Multimodal Interaction In Social Robots For Elderly Care: Interaction Types, System Architecture, And Purchasing Motivation, Ye Zhang, Yuqi Liu, Liang Xiao

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The rapid acceleration of global aging demographics has elevated the integration of smart technologies to enhance the elderly’s quality of life to a critical societal priority. While existing social robots demonstrate significant potential in health monitoring and emotional companionship, their practical implementation faces substantial barriers, including steep learning curves, limited emotional responsiveness, and insufficient adaptability to heterogeneous geriatric needs. To address these challenges, this study conducts a comprehensive analysis of multimodal interaction modalities (visual, auditory, affective, tactile, electromyographic, and brain-computer interfaces) specifically tailored for older adults through literature synthesis and empirical user surveys. The results of the research and analysis …

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"The Real Patient Often Wonders 'Where Is Everybody?'": A Design Ethnography Of Remote Patient Monitoring, Somayeh Ranjbar, Peter Lloyd Dec 2025

"The Real Patient Often Wonders 'Where Is Everybody?'": A Design Ethnography Of Remote Patient Monitoring, Somayeh Ranjbar, Peter Lloyd

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Remote patient care has become an important part of how clinicians understand and interact with their patients. Systems that deliver such care are carefully designed and monitored, but are changing the nature of the relationship between clinical practitioners and patients. They are also now being deployed with Artificial Intelligence (AI) to add a further dimension to the relationship. To explore this changing relationship, this paper reports a fieldwork study of a remote patient monitoring system recently implemented in a hospital in the Netherlands. Using an ethnographic approach over 7 months, including participant observation and semi-structured interviews with clinicians and healthcare …

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The Bidirectional Relationship Between Behavioural Guidance Design And User Behaviour Habits: Implications For Sustainable Packaging, Xinyi Luo, Qiyun Deng, Qing Huang, Yunyun Wang, Jiangyong Li Dec 2025

The Bidirectional Relationship Between Behavioural Guidance Design And User Behaviour Habits: Implications For Sustainable Packaging, Xinyi Luo, Qiyun Deng, Qing Huang, Yunyun Wang, Jiangyong Li

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Current sustainable food packaging often emphasises material innovation at the expense of user behaviours role across the life cycle, creating a “sustainability paradox” where environmental gains are offset by behavioural misalignment. This study employs behavioural design theory in a two-stage investigation to examine how packaging design shapes user behaviour. Field research at Xiangtan Universitys snack street identified user challenges for four food packaging categories: ready-to-eat dry food, ready-to-eat wet food, non-ready-to-eat dry food, and non-ready-to-eat wet food, and corresponding behaviours were extracted for each type of food packaging. In Stage 2, two comparative experiments (traditional packaging versus design-guided intervention) involved …

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Flomat: A Silent Gas-Liquid Phase-Change Mechanism For Ensuring Infant Sleep Safety, Rong Fu, Junhao Chen, Zexiang Tian, Jiaqi Wei, Jiarui Liu Dec 2025

Flomat: A Silent Gas-Liquid Phase-Change Mechanism For Ensuring Infant Sleep Safety, Rong Fu, Junhao Chen, Zexiang Tian, Jiaqi Wei, Jiarui Liu

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Accidental Suffocation and Strangulation in Bed (ASSB), often caused by unsafe sleep positions such as prone sleeping, remains a leading cause of preventable infant death. While conventional baby monitors provide alerts, they cannot intervene pro actively. This paper introduces FloMat, an intelligent infant sleep safety system designed to autonomously correct dangerous sleep positions without disturbing the infant. The system integrates visual monitoring to detect mouth-nose occlusion and uses low-boiling-point liquid-to-gas phase- change actuators to reposition the infant without generating audible noise. A multilayer structure ensures effective intervention, thermal comfort, and adaptability across differing infant body weights. Experiments using simulated infant …

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Designing With The Unknown: A Speculative Co-Creation Workshop On Future Human-Robot Interaction In Space Station, Yu Peng, Yuanling Feng, Yu Qiao, Luo Wang Dec 2025

Designing With The Unknown: A Speculative Co-Creation Workshop On Future Human-Robot Interaction In Space Station, Yu Peng, Yuanling Feng, Yu Qiao, Luo Wang

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As public engagement becomes essential in shaping technological futures, supporting non- experts to envision complex, distant scenarios poses a critical challenge for participatory design. This study explores this issue through a co-creation workshop focused on how designers without domain knowledge conceptualize Human-Robot Interaction for a future space station. Our analysis reveals that participants relied on "experience anchoring" and narrative construction to navigate uncertainty, exhibiting a strong "affective turn" that prioritizes socio-emotional connection while "black-boxing" key technologies and simplifying systemic complexity. This research contributes a rich empirical diagnosis of this process, revealing a critical gap between non-expert visions and technical realities. …

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Focusgpt: The Design Of Llms-Based Focus Group For Empowering Co-Design Practice, Shengyang Xu, Yishu Lai, Linyuan Dong, Henry Duh, Zhibin Zhou Dec 2025

Focusgpt: The Design Of Llms-Based Focus Group For Empowering Co-Design Practice, Shengyang Xu, Yishu Lai, Linyuan Dong, Henry Duh, Zhibin Zhou

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The focus group methods remain a cornerstone of co-design practice but continue to face persistent challenges, such as participant recruitment, groupthink, and the efficiency of extracting design insights. This paper explores how Large Language Models (LLMs) could offer an alternative approach while preserving the benefits of common focus group methods. Therefore, we propose FocusGPT, a prototype system where customizable LLMs-based multi-agents simulate stakeholders to facilitate discussions and generate design insights. Through a formative study with 16 design professionals, we identified key requirements for developing and refining such a system. Our informal pilot trials suggest that FocusGPT could potentially serve as …

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Exploring The Role And Syntax Of User Scenario Elements: Toward A Structured Framework For User-Centered Engineering Specifications, Ulugbek Vahobjon Ugli Ismatullaev, Kwanmyung Kim Dec 2025

Exploring The Role And Syntax Of User Scenario Elements: Toward A Structured Framework For User-Centered Engineering Specifications, Ulugbek Vahobjon Ugli Ismatullaev, Kwanmyung Kim

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User scenarios are widely employed to communicate user research insights and design intentions through narrative descriptions of product use within specific contexts in user-centered product development. Nevertheless, their utility often diminishes when these narratives are transferred to engineering teams that require structured and measurable specifications. This paper explores which elements of scenarios persist through this transition and how they should be articulated to enhance usability in subsequent stages. To address this issue, the study examines the persistence of scenario elements during this transition and provides guidance on their phrasing to improve downstream usability. A three-phase collaborative workshop involving interdisciplinary teams …

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Growing Together: Designing Green Infrastructure Through Co-Creation In Nezu, Tokyo, Wei Chen Dec 2025

Growing Together: Designing Green Infrastructure Through Co-Creation In Nezu, Tokyo, Wei Chen

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Traditional urban planning often isolates nature, viewing it as something to be managed by experts and separate from daily life, which limits public engagement and diminishes urban ecological potential. This study proposes a co-creation approach to reconnect humans with nature in urban settings, with a focus on Nezu in Tokyo. Through plant observation workshops, participants collaboratively explored and categorized their everyday experiences with urban greenery, identifying three "plant patterns": "Green Life in Cracks," "Plants Murals," and "Everyday Gardening. “Building on these insights, a modular urban greening system called "CO-GREEN" was designed, consisting of ground, wall, and mobile modules. These prototypes …

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Design Considerations For Redefining Vehicle Cabin Comfort: A User-Centered Perspective Based On Large-Scale Text Mining, Xiangyu Zhang, Yuebin Huang, Chaomin Ma, Danhua Zhao, Chunxi Huang Dec 2025

Design Considerations For Redefining Vehicle Cabin Comfort: A User-Centered Perspective Based On Large-Scale Text Mining, Xiangyu Zhang, Yuebin Huang, Chaomin Ma, Danhua Zhao, Chunxi Huang

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As vehicles transition into intelligent, electrified platforms, the automotive cabin is rapidly transforming into a “mobile third space” that blurs the boundaries between transportation, productivity, and leisure. In this evolving context, cabin comfort extends beyond physical parameters—such as temperature or seating posture—to encompass emotional well-being, interactive experiences, and aesthetic resonance. However, the design of comfort remains largely rooted in engineering-driven metrics, with limited understanding of how users perceive and articulate comfort in real-world use. To bridge this gap, we conducted a large-scale computational analysis of over 440,000 authentic user reviews from mainstream automotive platforms. Using a combination of word frequency …

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Beyond Obedient Tools: A Tensional-Field Relational Ontology For Human-Ai Co-Creation, Ziming Wang, Junyi Zeng, Krity Gera, Ashley Hall Dec 2025

Beyond Obedient Tools: A Tensional-Field Relational Ontology For Human-Ai Co-Creation, Ziming Wang, Junyi Zeng, Krity Gera, Ashley Hall

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Design practice frequently characterises generative artificial intelligence (AI) as a compliant, tool-like extension of human intention; however, recent reports of atypical behaviours motivate a re- examination of this metaphor. Grounded in Object-Oriented Ontology, agential realism, and posthumanist theory, this paper introduces the Tensional-Field Relational Framework (TFRF) for human–AI co-creation. TFRF models collaboration as a flat network comprising five semi-opaque node classes: human designer, AI system, creative artefact, intentional vector, and socio technical environment, all linked by dynamically weighted edges and circulating flows. We operational ise this perspective as a diagnostic governance grammar: relations are instrumented as edges with quantified flows …

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Conceptual Bridging & Collaborative Reconfiguration: Exploring Design Thinking-Driven Multidisciplinary Synergy For Wicked Problem Negotiation, Kaitian Wang, Chao Zhao, Yuhong Shen Dec 2025

Conceptual Bridging & Collaborative Reconfiguration: Exploring Design Thinking-Driven Multidisciplinary Synergy For Wicked Problem Negotiation, Kaitian Wang, Chao Zhao, Yuhong Shen

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With the normalization of Wicked problems in daily contexts, multidisciplinary collaboration is replacing traditional single-discipline approaches as the new pathway for addressing complex societal issues. Design disciplines, through design thinking and methodological toolkits, serve as cognitive binding agents within multidisciplinary teams, emerging as critical mechanisms for tackling such Wicked problem challenges. Through a three-phase interdisciplinary workshop in healthcare contexts, this study investigates the mediating role of design thinking in breaking disciplinary barriers and activating collaborative innovation under wicked problem contexts. Adopting a mixed-methods approach with controlled experiments comparing free exploration and design intervention phases, we tracked collaboration dynamics among 23 …

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Exploring The Application Of Additive Manufacturing Technology And Lattice Structures In Orthotic Insole Design, Shu-Yi Zhu, Ling Lee, Ming-Huang Lin Dec 2025

Exploring The Application Of Additive Manufacturing Technology And Lattice Structures In Orthotic Insole Design, Shu-Yi Zhu, Ling Lee, Ming-Huang Lin

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This study aimed to explore the potential of applying additive manufacturing technology and lattice structure technology in the design and fabrication of orthotic insoles, proposed a digitalised orthotic insole design process that integrates 3D foot scanning, parametric modelling, and 3D printing. The present study also compared this process with traditional orthotic insole production in terms of workflow, operation, and user comfort. The present study adopted research through design (RTD) methodology and a case study approach, conducted in two stages: ‘Insole Design and Development’ and ‘Wear Testing and Verification.’ The design and development process includes 3D foot scanning, data repair, model …

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Lenses On Later Life: Photovoice As A Creative Method For Socially Impactful Design Practice, Yuanyuan Yin, Spela Mocnik, Saddaf Naaz Akhtar, Athina Vlachantoni Dec 2025

Lenses On Later Life: Photovoice As A Creative Method For Socially Impactful Design Practice, Yuanyuan Yin, Spela Mocnik, Saddaf Naaz Akhtar, Athina Vlachantoni

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This paper examines the use of photovoice, a participatory visual method, within a qualitative study exploring financial planning and pension engagement among mid-life and older adults from ethnic minority communities in the United Kingdom. Situated at the intersection of social research and design practice, the study invited participants to express their experiences of financial insecurity, ageing and the future through photography and narrative. The paper focuses not only on what was revealed but on how the creative method enabled participant-led storytelling and the translation of research into public and educational design outputs. Two key design outcomes emerged from the process: …

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Integrating Cultural Touchpoints In Service Design: Insights From Culturally Embedded Marathons, Yijia Jiang, Xia Bi, Kin Wai Michael Siu, Keren Zhang, Wanchun Ye, Huiyi Zhang Dec 2025

Integrating Cultural Touchpoints In Service Design: Insights From Culturally Embedded Marathons, Yijia Jiang, Xia Bi, Kin Wai Michael Siu, Keren Zhang, Wanchun Ye, Huiyi Zhang

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This study explores service design strategies for Culturally Embedded Marathons (CEMs), proposing a research perspective that integrates cultural memory formation mechanisms (symbol is ation, ritual is ation, and institutional is ation) to examine service design frameworks. Through a case study of the representative 2025 Kyoto Marathon, we identified 26 cultural touch points within its service design system. Using Python, we scraped and analysed 2,689 user-generated posts from social media platforms documenting the 2025 Kyoto Marathon, comprising 13,345 images. Computer vision analysis was employed to assess the distribution, frequency, and key combinations of these cultural touch points. The findings reveal that …

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