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Participatory Design Insights From Ai Mobility Projects In Amsterdam, Heng Gu, Senthil Chandrasegaran, Euiyoung Kim Dec 2025

Participatory Design Insights From Ai Mobility Projects In Amsterdam, Heng Gu, Senthil Chandrasegaran, Euiyoung Kim

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How much participation is “enough” for artificial intelligence (AI) in public space? We investigate three Amsterdam urban mobility system (UMS) projects —crowd-monitoring cameras, parking-scan vehicles and value-based routing—to examine participatory trajectory with the goal of projecting legitimacy beyond technical execution. To trace who gained voice (and when) across conception, deployment, and operation of the projects, we combined Arnstein’s Ladder and stakeholder mapping as a minimal toolkit. Findings reveal recurrent gaps and challenges in identifying and engaging impacted stakeholders. We sought first-hand, in-depth accounts from project managers of the UMS projects to offer richer context to the decisions made throughout the …

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Research On The Design Method Of Cultural And Creative Products Of The Palace Museum In Beijing Based On Empathy, Xingjie Yan, Zhiyu Zhao Dec 2025

Research On The Design Method Of Cultural And Creative Products Of The Palace Museum In Beijing Based On Empathy, Xingjie Yan, Zhiyu Zhao

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Nowadays, visual communication designers are paying more and more attention to audience experience. Design should not only meet aesthetics and functionality, but also meet the emotional needs of users. The EDIPT design thinking model, which begins with empathy as its foundational step and upholds the concept of "perception from the user's perspective," equips designers with a wealth of thought processes and practical skills. Furthermore, it facilitates the transformation and upgrading of cultural and creative products that effectively connect users, culture, and creativity. As a country with a long cultural history, China has good research value based on Chinese culture. The …

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"Just Summarize It In A Bite-Sized Way": Evaluating A Conversational Agent To Support Information-Seeking About Motor Neurone Disease Management, Allison Hall, Mark Quinlan, Wen Mo, Youngjun Cho Dec 2025

"Just Summarize It In A Bite-Sized Way": Evaluating A Conversational Agent To Support Information-Seeking About Motor Neurone Disease Management, Allison Hall, Mark Quinlan, Wen Mo, Youngjun Cho

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People with Motor Neurone Disease (MND) and those who care for people with MND require timely, accurate information to manage a progressively debilitating condition. However, common information- seeking tools such as search engines, online forums, and websites can be inaccessible, misleading, or overwhelming. This paper evaluates a prototype of a conversational agent designed with input from people with MND, carers, and professionals who work directly with people with MND. Study 1 identified participants unmet informational needs and source preferences through surveys and interviews. Drawing on the information needs and evidence-based sources specified by participants, a conversational agent prototype was created …

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Peacebuilding: Scoping An Empathic Design Approach Through Speculative Fiction, Koskinen Ilpo, Philip Ely, Markus Wernli Dec 2025

Peacebuilding: Scoping An Empathic Design Approach Through Speculative Fiction, Koskinen Ilpo, Philip Ely, Markus Wernli

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Despite an apparent period of geopolitical stability following the establishment of the UN in 1945, questions of war and peace remain as perennial concerns. . This paper presents an attempt to scope a design approach for peace building. It grounds its approach on Johan Galtung’s notion of positive peace as justice and John Paul Lederach’s middle-ground theory of peace building but underlines the importance of an empathic dialogue that brings parties in conflict together to find common ali ties and develop skills useful in post-conflict societies. The paper scopes an approach through a piece of speculative fiction about a design …

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"A Second Glance": Anthropomorphic Tools As Speculative Companion, Yixuan Wei, Dag Aarsland, Wei Liu Dec 2025

"A Second Glance": Anthropomorphic Tools As Speculative Companion, Yixuan Wei, Dag Aarsland, Wei Liu

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This paper explores how anthropomorphic design can function as a speculative pathway toward alternative futures. Drawing on the vision of design as a form of critical speculation, it proposes that endowing objects with human-like qualities, often accompanied by unexpected behaviours and effects, invites new modes of engagement that are emotional and narratives of the self. By examining selected design cases and artefacts that evoke anthropomorphic thinking, the study argues that such designs do not simply imitate life but provoke reflections on human entanglement with objects they live around and interact with every day, the fragility of agency, and the companionship …

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Game Experience For Psychological Well-Being: Design Translation And Practice Based On The Perma Model, Jing Zhao, Runyan Wang Dec 2025

Game Experience For Psychological Well-Being: Design Translation And Practice Based On The Perma Model, Jing Zhao, Runyan Wang

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With the growing demand for mental health and the development of digital interactive media, using games to address psychological well-being has become increasingly possible. To address the current lack of effective translation of psychological theories into game experience design, this study introduces the PERMA model from positive psychology and proposes a game experience design approach oriented toward psychological well-being. Through user research, key needs were identified, and design exploration was carried out across four dimensions: visual, narrative, interaction, and theory. The interactive effect was implemented using the Unity engine and Kinect somatosensory technology. The design practice employed both NPS and …

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The Aesthetic Appeal Of Visual Flow: A Kansei Engineering Study On Attractive Factors Of Motion Graphics In An Immersive Environment, Hsin-Jui Chen, Tzu-Wei Tsai Dec 2025

The Aesthetic Appeal Of Visual Flow: A Kansei Engineering Study On Attractive Factors Of Motion Graphics In An Immersive Environment, Hsin-Jui Chen, Tzu-Wei Tsai

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As immersive media continues to evolve as a dominant paradigm in digital design, understanding how motion graphics shape users’ emotional engagement and sensory perception has become a critical issue in visual communication research. This study examines the relationship between visual design elements in immersive motion graphics and users’ Kansei experiences, aiming to identify key attraction factors and their corresponding quality attributes. Grounded in the framework of Kansei Engineering, in-depth interviews were conducted using the Evaluation Grid Method (EGM), resulting in the identification of eight representative attraction factors. These factors were further analyzed using the Kano Model, Customer Satisfaction Coefficients (CS/DS), …

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Digitalization Methods Of Design Cultural Resources From The Perspective Of Authenticity: A Case Study Of Traditional Chinese Doors And Windows, Qijun Tian, Tie Ji, Hanling Zhang Dec 2025

Digitalization Methods Of Design Cultural Resources From The Perspective Of Authenticity: A Case Study Of Traditional Chinese Doors And Windows, Qijun Tian, Tie Ji, Hanling Zhang

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Based on the concept of cultural heritage authenticity, this study addresses key challenges such as insufficient semantic clarity and limited adaptability in the digitalization of cultural resources. It proposes a three-stage digitalization pathway: "cognitive authenticity, recording authenticity, expressive authenticity," and develops a structured methodological framework for applying digitalized cultural resources to design contexts. Using traditional Chinese doors and windows as case studies, the research systematically undertakes semantic identification, three-dimensional data acquisition, and semantic modeling of cultural elements, subsequently establishing a knowledge representation mechanism that facilitates creative generation. Through the "data-tool-design" process, this study demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed framework …

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Transforming Technological Factors Into Learning Outcomes Of Product Design: The Mediating Role Of Soe In Iiles, Wang Xinyan, Hsu Yen, Xu Rui Dec 2025

Transforming Technological Factors Into Learning Outcomes Of Product Design: The Mediating Role Of Soe In Iiles, Wang Xinyan, Hsu Yen, Xu Rui

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The rapid development of immersive technologies has brought revolutionary transformation to learning environments, with escalating scholarly interest in their impact on learning effectiveness. As a composite discipline that integrates theory with practice, as well as art with technology, design education imposes particularly stringent requirements on Immersive-Interactivity Learning Environments (IILEs). Therefore, this study takes product design courses as a task to comprehensively examines the complex interplay among immersion, interactivity, cognitive load, and learning outcomes within IILEs, with particular emphasis on the mediating role of Sense of Embodiment (SoE) between technological factors and learning outcomes. Employing a rigorous mixed-methods approach, the research …

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Embodied Collaboration Game Design: Exploring Parent-Child Emotional Bonding Through Motion-Based Interaction, Yufei Zeng, Mengting Xue, Zhizhi Wang, Junjie Zhang Dec 2025

Embodied Collaboration Game Design: Exploring Parent-Child Emotional Bonding Through Motion-Based Interaction, Yufei Zeng, Mengting Xue, Zhizhi Wang, Junjie Zhang

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In contemporary family life shaped by digital media, face-to-face communication between parents and children is increasingly limited. Traditional companion-style games often fail to support both emotional bonding and collaborative interaction. Grounded in embodied cognition theory, this study introduces a motion-based parent–child game with a “lighting–collection” mechanism and role-based task division. The system promotes non-verbal coordination and physical cooperation in a non-competitive setting. A mixed-method study involving eight families with children aged 6–9 evaluated its impact through behavioural observation, task performance, and emotional feedback. Results show that embodied interaction provides a novel channel for engagement beyond verbal exchange, while non-verbal collaboration …

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Urban Furniture Design Strategies Based On The Concept Of Circular Economy, Youzhi Chen, Chi Hang Lo, Kin Wai Michael Siu, Xin Liu Dec 2025

Urban Furniture Design Strategies Based On The Concept Of Circular Economy, Youzhi Chen, Chi Hang Lo, Kin Wai Michael Siu, Xin Liu

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This study aims to explore how to design circular urban furniture in order to address the sustainability challenges faced by existing urban furniture. Firstly, the concept of the circular economy was outlined, and its four resource flow design principles were summarized, namely narrowing resource flows, slowing resource flows, closing resource flows, and regenerating resource flows. Secondly, a new definition and classification were proposed based on a review of the existing definitions and classifications of urban furniture. Then, the current state of research and practice on circular design in urban furniture was reviewed, and the research gap was identified. Finally, a …

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Cultural Resonance – Understanding Food Cultures To Inform Adaptive Ai For Healthy And Sustainable Eating, Emily Groves, Zeynep Erol, Sebastian Baez-Lugo, Nicolas Henchoz, Margherita Motta Dec 2025

Cultural Resonance – Understanding Food Cultures To Inform Adaptive Ai For Healthy And Sustainable Eating, Emily Groves, Zeynep Erol, Sebastian Baez-Lugo, Nicolas Henchoz, Margherita Motta

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applications in this domain often disregard the complex array of factors that shape food perceptions and practices, leading to exclusion and disengagement. At the same time, AI offers opportunities to adapt digital systems based on individual preferences and behaviours. This paper reports the first stage of work to design an AI-powered digital tool that introduces users to principles of healthy and sustainable eating across different cultural contexts. Using cultural probes and semi-structured interviews, we investigate lived experiences and socio-cultural connections to food and eating practices. Our findings reveal the diversity of eating frameworks and highlight the need for adaptive AI …

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Discourse Through Futures: Expanding The Organisational Foresight Practice With Design, Li-Ting Huang, Xuqin Yu, Si Teng Lei, Tanaka Yasunori, Yahata Akihisa, Shyhnan Liou Dec 2025

Discourse Through Futures: Expanding The Organisational Foresight Practice With Design, Li-Ting Huang, Xuqin Yu, Si Teng Lei, Tanaka Yasunori, Yahata Akihisa, Shyhnan Liou

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The convergence of design and foresight is emerging as a powerful approach to navigate uncertainties and envision alternative futures. This study investigates how design and foresight are mutually facilitated based on the following questions: What are the current challenges in foresight practice? How can design meaningfully enhance foresight processes? Despite the growth of academic interest in frameworks such as experiential futures and design futuring, foresight practices of many organisations (particularly private corporations) remain limited in scope and imagination. Drawing on a practice-based perspective, this paper examines five organisational cases – the Japan Research Institute, the Taiwan Design Research Institute, the …

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World-Building As A Design Framing Tool For Emerging Technologies In Design Studio, Abdullah Tarik Celik, Ferda Ozdulger, Ekrem Cem Alppay, Cigdem Kaya Dec 2025

World-Building As A Design Framing Tool For Emerging Technologies In Design Studio, Abdullah Tarik Celik, Ferda Ozdulger, Ekrem Cem Alppay, Cigdem Kaya

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In this study, we explore the integration of the world-building approach into design studio education to engage students with emerging technologies. Specifically, we examine how senior-year industrial design students (n=64) approached the design of a near-future transportation concept: Electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (E-VTOL) aircraft systems. To facilitate ideation around this unfamiliar technological domain, the project began with a world-building workshop rooted in design fiction, followed by a series of weekly desk critiques. The project was evaluated through student outputs and a questionnaire, with a focus on the conceptual development phase. A thematic analysis of the visual and textual data …

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Non-Human Rights And Posthuman Governance: How Speculative Design Simulate The Dwelling Politics Of 'Cross-Species Symbiosis Lives'?, Wenjia Sun Dec 2025

Non-Human Rights And Posthuman Governance: How Speculative Design Simulate The Dwelling Politics Of 'Cross-Species Symbiosis Lives'?, Wenjia Sun

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This paper examines the interplay between non-human rights and posthuman governance, delving into how Speculative Design practice of Legislative Fictioneering and symbiotic scenario-building enables us to provotype alternative social contracts and the dwelling politics of 'cross-species symbiosis lives.' Within the framework of dec on str acting of technological determinism, the proposed project, 'Cross-species Symbiosis Lives' employs provotypes to augment tangible Legislative Fictioneering, material science, and embedded governance approaches that acknowledge non-human agency and legal personhood position from a futurological perspective. Notably, the paper critically analyzes the neoliberal tendencies within Speculative Design, which tend to privatize legal imagination and reduce systemic …

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Embodied Interaction And Video Re-Narration: A Participatory Framework For Script-Based Cultural Heritage -– The Case Of Nüshu, Jiaa Peng, Yia Xiao Dec 2025

Embodied Interaction And Video Re-Narration: A Participatory Framework For Script-Based Cultural Heritage -– The Case Of Nüshu, Jiaa Peng, Yia Xiao

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Script systems such as Nüshu—a unique writing system created and used exclusively by women— function as composite cultural carriers, integrating linguistic utility, visual configuration, and ritual practice. They embody identity and emotional bonds within specific communities. As digital culture dissemination accelerates, interactive video has emerged as a promising pathway for the regeneration of such cultural resources. However, existing digitalization approaches often suffer from limited sensory engagement, inadequate contextual restoration, and superficial participatory frameworks, which fail to convey the complex cultural structures and socio cultural significance of these systems. This study centres on the immersive interactive video installation Zuo Ge Tang …

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Design For All: Mitigating Systemic Bias And Hidden Violence In Ai Voice Assistants For Visually Impaired Users, Jie Meng, Yufei Zhang, Ziwei Lin Dec 2025

Design For All: Mitigating Systemic Bias And Hidden Violence In Ai Voice Assistants For Visually Impaired Users, Jie Meng, Yufei Zhang, Ziwei Lin

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AI voice assistants promise greater accessibility, yet misalignments in their design can reproduce systemic bias. This study examines the usability of AI voice assistants for blind and low-vision users through a multi-method qualitative approach. We combined a literature review with observation- assisted usability sessions (n = 23) and semi-structured interviews (n = 8) with participants in China and the UK. Thematic ally analysing the corpus in NVivo 14, we identified four recurring challenges: elevated task error rates; limited recognition of diverse accents alongside vague or inconsistent auditory feedback; interface barriers that embed visual dependencies; and a resulting sense of exclusion …

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Value Framework And Design Implications For Digitizing Intangible Cultural Heritage: A Case Of Ronghua, Zhi Ye, Zheyuan Zhang, Qiongpei Kong, Ling Qin, Simon Tanner Dec 2025

Value Framework And Design Implications For Digitizing Intangible Cultural Heritage: A Case Of Ronghua, Zhi Ye, Zheyuan Zhang, Qiongpei Kong, Ling Qin, Simon Tanner

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This paper examines the digitization of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH), through the case of Ronghua, a traditional Chinese craft. We investigate the current practices in presenting and promoting the ICH craft-making process, gather insights on digitization, and propose key considerations and design implications through semi-structured interviews with 9 Ronghua craftspeople and three co-design workshops with 19 participants, including craftspeople, interaction designers, and end users. Through thematic analysis of the qualitative data, we compare and contrast the debate between conservative and innovative craftspeople regarding the digitization of the Ronghua-making process and identify ways to help balance the needs and values …

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Rethinking Public Space Design And Assemblage Affordances: A Perspective From China's One-Child Generation And Solitude, Xia Bi, Yijia Jiang, Caterina Villani, Kin Wai Michael Siu Dec 2025

Rethinking Public Space Design And Assemblage Affordances: A Perspective From China's One-Child Generation And Solitude, Xia Bi, Yijia Jiang, Caterina Villani, Kin Wai Michael Siu

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This paper explores how urban public space design in China responds to the growing demand for solitude, with a particular focus on the unique social and cultural preferences of the one-child generation. Drawing on relational thinking and affordance theory, the study examines how public spaces intentionally designed to promote social interaction are appropriated for solitary use. Through case analyses of public spaces in Shanghai and Yantai, China, the paper reveals the emergence of improvised and serendipitous affordances that reflect changing user behaviours and cultural expectations. This paper highlights the need to move beyond intent-driven design toward a relational model that …

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Authoring Fashion Materials: Procedural Generation As Design Method For Fashion Design, Saina Koohnavard Dec 2025

Authoring Fashion Materials: Procedural Generation As Design Method For Fashion Design, Saina Koohnavard

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3D CAD and extended reality technologies have become increasingly integrated into fashion design practice in both higher education and the fashion industry, yet their application remains focused on the visualisation and promotion of physical products, rather than being embraced as creative mediums for exploration. This paper suggests a shift in this mindset, exploring the potential of procedural generation as a means to engage in experimental material-driven design processes in a digital context. Commonly used in digital-native disciplines, such as digital games and film for generating complex visuals, procedural generation remains largely unexplored within fashion design. This paper investigates the expressive …

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Exploring The Attractive Factors Of Augmented Projection Environments, Ping-Chen Tsai, Tzu-Wei Tsai Dec 2025

Exploring The Attractive Factors Of Augmented Projection Environments, Ping-Chen Tsai, Tzu-Wei Tsai

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With the convergence of digital technology and media art, immersive media has emerged as a critical medium in contemporary exhibitions and interactive design. Despite its growing prevalence, immersive experiences differ significantly across various projection environments due to variations in spatial scale, visual configuration, and interaction modes. This study investigates the key attractive factors in three types of augmented projection environments—window-type (90°), surround-type (120–180°), and field-type (360°). Using a unified geometric motion graphic as visual content, in-depth interviews based on the Evaluation Grid Method (EGM) were conducted to extract affective response dimensions. A Kano model survey and factor analysis were subsequently …

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Co-Designing Tangible Embedded And Embodied Interaction For Co-Located Intergenerational Active Play, Khoa Tran, Alethea Blackler, Daniel Cook, Bernd Ploderer, Nicole Vickery Dec 2025

Co-Designing Tangible Embedded And Embodied Interaction For Co-Located Intergenerational Active Play, Khoa Tran, Alethea Blackler, Daniel Cook, Bernd Ploderer, Nicole Vickery

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Co-located intergenerational active play enables meaningful interaction between generations while supporting young early childhood development and positive aging. Existing literature highlights the potential of tangible embedded and embodied interaction (TEI) in promoting active play and intergenerational interaction. Through a series of co-design workshops involving grandchild-grandparent dyads, fourteen ideas were generated and analysed using behavioural coding. Three themes were identified: ‘Ball games’, ‘Cubbyhouse’, and ‘Build and knock’. Ball games had the highest potential for equal participation, stimulating a range of Fundamental Movement Skill (FMS) and sustaining engagement. In contrast, cubbyhouse and build-and-knock activities often resulted in passive participation from grandparents. This …

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A Reflective Lab Journal For Biodesign: Navigating More-Than-Human Sensibilities And Disciplinary Tensions, Jiho Kim, Iohanna Nicenboim, Joana Martins, Elvin Karana Dec 2025

A Reflective Lab Journal For Biodesign: Navigating More-Than-Human Sensibilities And Disciplinary Tensions, Jiho Kim, Iohanna Nicenboim, Joana Martins, Elvin Karana

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This paper introduces reflective journaling as a tool for advancing biodesign practices, merging documentation methods from biology and design while integrating more-than-human sensibilities into laboratory practices. It highlights the need for tools that can flexibly support record-keeping across biology and design, balancing precision and accountability with iteration, creativity, and collaboration. Furthermore, it critically addresses calls to support care ethics and nurturing multispecies interactions within biodesign. Through an explorative review of diverse documentation formats, including laboratory notebooks and annotated portfolios, and informed by our own biodesign experiences, we introduce the Reflective Biodesign Lab Journal as a potential approach to address these …

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Exploring Fashion Repair Through Conscious Design, Babita Bhandari, Fashion Technology Dec 2025

Exploring Fashion Repair Through Conscious Design, Babita Bhandari, Fashion Technology

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The research is focused on reinforcing the consumer-centred sustainability behaviour by involving consumers in mending their clothing. After exploring the aesthetic perspective of fashion repair through secondary research, this study aims to establish awareness and acceptance among consumers towards the green aesthetics of fashion repair. Firstly, through surveys and interviews, the views, attitudes, and behaviour of consumers towards fashion repair were documented. Based on the interest expressed by the consumers in practicing visible mending, workshop was conducted to orient them towards different ways of visible repair. Subsequently, the garments were mended after exploring various conscious mending design ways by consumers …

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Haptic Aesthetics In Practice: Investigating How Designers Prioritise And Communicate Tactile Qualities When Crafting Design Experiences, Jacob Rodda, Charlie Ranscombe, Blair Kuys Dec 2025

Haptic Aesthetics In Practice: Investigating How Designers Prioritise And Communicate Tactile Qualities When Crafting Design Experiences, Jacob Rodda, Charlie Ranscombe, Blair Kuys

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Haptic aesthetics—design qualities perceived through touch—play a vital role in crafting meaningful design experiences. Yet, within contemporary practice, they remain underrepresented compared to visual aesthetics, particularly in how they are prioritised and communicated throughout the design process. This study investigates how designers and architects engage with haptic aesthetics, focusing on their prior it is ation in practice and their inclusion in project briefs. Drawing on survey data from 55 professionals in industrial, product, architectural, and interior design disciplines, findings reveal a strong recognition of the emotional and experiential value of tactile interaction. However, haptic considerations are seldom embedded in formal …

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Examining The Boundary Infrastructures Around 'Fair Food': The Sustainable Transition Approach Of Postane, Cagri G. Varli, Betül Şahin Dec 2025

Examining The Boundary Infrastructures Around 'Fair Food': The Sustainable Transition Approach Of Postane, Cagri G. Varli, Betül Şahin

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In response to the growing sense of distrust in mainstream food systems, Alternative Food Networks have gained traction by prioritizing ecological, ethical, and participatory principles. One such alternative initiative is the ‘fair food’ ecosystem developed by the urban hub Postane Istanbul, which this study explores as a case. Postane brings together food-related practices, infrastructures, and actors around the idea of fair food. The study focuses on how fair food can act as a boundary object that mediates between diverse actors, values, and practices. Data were collected through site visits, document analysis, and long-term participant observation, offering insights into Postane’s fair …

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A Generative Ai Design Education Paradigm: From Scenario Space To Artifact Space, Wangda Zhu, Linghao Li, Seryung Kim Dec 2025

A Generative Ai Design Education Paradigm: From Scenario Space To Artifact Space, Wangda Zhu, Linghao Li, Seryung Kim

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In Fall 2024, a three-week Generative AI (GAI) module was introduced in an undergraduate digital media course within a design program at a research-intensive public university in the U.S. This pictorial presents a unique approach to integrating GAI into a design studio through a proposed design education perspective, showcasing student work. Students first learned to use a GAI tool developed by the author, designed with a simplified UI and interactive design provenance, using a Stable Diffusion model. They practiced writing structured prompts to generate novel and appropriate design scenarios. In the second week, students were tasked with designing chairs, creating …

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Design Patterns For Ai Curated Content, Awais Hameed Khan, Senuri Wijenayake, Sara Fahad Dawood Al Lawati, Damiano Spina, Danula Hettiachchi Dec 2025

Design Patterns For Ai Curated Content, Awais Hameed Khan, Senuri Wijenayake, Sara Fahad Dawood Al Lawati, Damiano Spina, Danula Hettiachchi

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Advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have led to a rapid increase in the use of AI- enabled tools to curate content across various application contexts (e.g., news, social media, search engines, product reviews). This content can include multiple data sources and formats. Some commercially available AI-enabled content curation integrations seem useful, while others are underdeveloped, or not considered in terms of utility, contextual relevance, or user experience. We present an annotated portfolio of nine discrete interface design patterns, exploring how an AI-in-the- loop approach can be used to present con textually relevant, AI curated content — across varying degrees …

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Synthetic Realities: Evaluating Human Ability To Distinguish Ai-Generated Videos From Real Footage, Danyal Sarfraz, Raja Mubashar Karim, Kwanmyung Kim Dec 2025

Synthetic Realities: Evaluating Human Ability To Distinguish Ai-Generated Videos From Real Footage, Danyal Sarfraz, Raja Mubashar Karim, Kwanmyung Kim

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Recent advances in generative AI have enabled multiple pathways for high‑fidelity video synthesis; text‑to‑video, image‑to‑video animation, and video out painting. Empirical side-by-side evaluations of how untrained viewers perceive and distinguish these outputs from real footage remain scarce. In this study, we systematically compare human detection accuracy across these three AI generation techniques within three thematic contexts: historical footage, film and media content, and natural environments. We constructed a balanced stimulus set comprising equal amounts of real and AI- generated videos (18 each). The AI clips were evenly distributed across the three generation methods using Google’s Veo 3, Lightricks LTX Video, …

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Design Futuring For Menstrual Pain Technologies Through A Participatory Workshop, Muxuan Tang, Mai Kagawa, Yasuaki Kakehi Dec 2025

Design Futuring For Menstrual Pain Technologies Through A Participatory Workshop, Muxuan Tang, Mai Kagawa, Yasuaki Kakehi

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Menstrual pain affects a significant proportion of individuals worldwide, yet it has long been stigmatized and remains under explored in both design research and industry. Existing technologies primarily focus on symptom tracking or pain relief, overlooking the complex, temporal, and embodied nature of menstrual pain while perpetuating narrow narratives. To challenge these limitations, we conducted a participatory workshop to explore speculative futures of menstrual pain care. Using approaches like body maps, scenario-building, and design fiction, participants shared their lived experiences, critiqued existing technologies, and envisioned future scenarios rooted in empathy, inclusivity, and ethics. In this pictorial, we presented the workshop …

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