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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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Bio-Brutalism; Five Case Studies Framing The Emergence Of New Raw Aesthetics At The Intersection Of Material Regeneration, Environmental Design, And Craft, Fernando Galdon, Harry Hosker, Hugo Garcia, William Eliot, Anna Tsiganchuk, Shaoyu Wang, Delfina Fantini, Robert Phillips Oct 2023

Bio-Brutalism; Five Case Studies Framing The Emergence Of New Raw Aesthetics At The Intersection Of Material Regeneration, Environmental Design, And Craft, Fernando Galdon, Harry Hosker, Hugo Garcia, William Eliot, Anna Tsiganchuk, Shaoyu Wang, Delfina Fantini, Robert Phillips

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As we move towards a regenerative paradigm for crafts, with new objectives, methods, and practices, questions arise regarding the aesthetics of these emerging forms. To address this issue, the main author developed a module aimed at exploring furniture design at the intersection of regenerative materials, structures, and aesthetics in greater depth. In this context, five cases have been selected to frame the quintessential characteristics of these new raw aesthetics.These case studies showcase varying approaches, with some generating new aesthetic qualities by introducing novel processes, while others embrace a strictly analogue approach to highlight literal aesthetics.The resulting aesthetics have been categorised …

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The Dronetic Moment: Future Of Drone Light Show & Lighting Design In Concerts, Pak Lam Sin, Soojin Jun Oct 2023

The Dronetic Moment: Future Of Drone Light Show & Lighting Design In Concerts, Pak Lam Sin, Soojin Jun

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Stage lighting design in concerts are being transformed along the development of innovative advanced technologies. Drone technology and its potential practices are continuously examined. Adopting drone light shows in concerts is becoming the trend. The purpose of this research is to explore the potential of drone light show application in concerts. This paper will investigate the differences between stage lighting and drone light show in five main perspectives. Subjects who had experience watching drone light shows in concerts are recruited for survey and in-depth interview to gain insight of their experiences. Findings from the research show that contextual communication, large …

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Design Characteristics In Outdoor Seating Areas – A Study Of Coffee Shops In Hong Kong And Copenhagen, Mia Münster Oct 2023

Design Characteristics In Outdoor Seating Areas – A Study Of Coffee Shops In Hong Kong And Copenhagen, Mia Münster

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Transitional spaces, or ‘in-between’ areas, those connecting the interior and exterior spaces of shops, cafés and restaurants–these are spheres of interaction between commercial and public spaces. In them, through the use of design elements, stores communicate the nature of their offerings, their services, and their values to the outside world; consumers, in turn, decode these elements as a part of their decision to patronize the store. Increasingly, these transitional spaces incorporate areas for outdoor seating. In these areas, parts of the surrounding neighborhood are pulled into the store’s sphere, while the store’s sphere is simultaneously projected into the surrounding area. …

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Social Innovation Through Regenerative Perspectives: A Theoretical Approach On Gender-Based Violence System, Raquel Lima Oct 2023

Social Innovation Through Regenerative Perspectives: A Theoretical Approach On Gender-Based Violence System, Raquel Lima

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Regenerative theories are used in human and non-human dynamics in a sustainable perspective; however, their potential can flourish new applications to deal with other social challenges. This article explores a theoretical approach to possible uses of regenerative theories applied to the gender-based violence (GBV) system and its relevance in social innovation. The answers in GVB are conducted by the government and civil society institutions that collectively act on the field. Despite the efforts to end violence against women, there is a long road to deconstructing inequalities, and social and cultural structures that evidence and contribute to maintaining the phenomenon. Since …

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Ai Logic Of Care: Premises For Upgrading The Smart Bandages For Diabetic Chronic Wounds, Ignacio De La Torre Zapata, Tincuta Heinzel, Roberta Bernabei Oct 2023

Ai Logic Of Care: Premises For Upgrading The Smart Bandages For Diabetic Chronic Wounds, Ignacio De La Torre Zapata, Tincuta Heinzel, Roberta Bernabei

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This paper addresses the relationship between the medical application design and the “logic of care” in the context of smart bandages for diabetic wounds. As one of the major medical issues that involve constant monitorisation, chronic wounds are the centre of interest to a number of stakeholders. From patients, caregivers and medical services providers involved in their monitoring and treatment, to engineers, material scientists and designers involved in the products used to treat them. The research of Annemarie Mol has demonstrated that we encounter two “logics” when it comes to medical interventions: the “logic of care” and the “logic of …

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Navigating Circularity In Practice: Proposing A Decision-Making Tool For Guiding Circular Product Development, Danika Van Kaathoven, Daijiro Mizuno Oct 2023

Navigating Circularity In Practice: Proposing A Decision-Making Tool For Guiding Circular Product Development, Danika Van Kaathoven, Daijiro Mizuno

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Product design and development are considered to be essential in the transition toward a circular economy. Circular product design requires strategies and methods that support a holistic and systems approach considering the complete lifecycle of a product. In order to support designers and businesses in going circular, various theoretical frameworks, methods, and strategies for circular design have been conceived in recent years. Yet, the need for more evidence of how to help circular design in practice remains. This study aims to bridge the gap between theory and practice in the field of circular design by proposing a tool to help …

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Global Goals, Local Future Stories: Unpacking Contrasts And Visions Of Circular Economy Activities In Neighbourhood Makerspaces, María Laura Ramírez Galleguillos, Damla Çay, Aykut Coşkun Oct 2023

Global Goals, Local Future Stories: Unpacking Contrasts And Visions Of Circular Economy Activities In Neighbourhood Makerspaces, María Laura Ramírez Galleguillos, Damla Çay, Aykut Coşkun

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Circular makerspaces have the potential to contribute to sustainable development goals (SDGs) by promoting circular-making activities such as reusing, repairing, refurbishing, and recycling. However, community building is essential for maintaining a circular makerspace, which requires engaging the makers and future users in circular-making activities. In this paper, we argue that involving locals in the design of circular makerspaces can facilitate community building and support makers' sense of belonging to the space. We present the experience of involving citizens in establishing circular makerspaces in seven European cities as part of the EU-funded H2020 project, [Project Name]. We developed a technique, called …

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More Than Human Empathy: A Caring Approach To Ecosystemic Design, Mariana Pestana Oct 2023

More Than Human Empathy: A Caring Approach To Ecosystemic Design, Mariana Pestana

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This paper argues for a caring approach to design based on more-than-human empathy. It proposes that such an empathic turn can provide a useful framework for eco-systemic thinking and practice in design, because it takes into consideration the wellbeing and the rights of people but also that of non-human bodies. To do that, this paper reports on a study concerning the conception and delivery of a design Biennial, entirely created and experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic, which gathered thinkers, practitioners, researchers and community groups to collectively discuss, scrutinise and rehearse the role of design in a post-anthropocentric, more-than-human paradigm. For …

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Exploring Multimodal Technologies To Engage Elderly People In Remote Communication With Their Family, Baihui Chen, Xueliang Li Oct 2023

Exploring Multimodal Technologies To Engage Elderly People In Remote Communication With Their Family, Baihui Chen, Xueliang Li

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The increasing mobility in the ageing society has caused more and more elderly people living separately with their family. The quality of remote communication with their family located in different places affects the mental wellbeing and quality of life for the elderly. However, the traditional communication technologies focus on screen-based interaction and synchronous communication are limited in engaging elderly users in fulfilling and engaging experiences compared to the younger generations in communication. In this paper, we look at three novel types of technologies, i.e., immersive technologies, social robots and IoTs, while considering their potential to promote social presence of one …

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Exploring The Design Applications Of Key Emerging Materials From Natural Sciences Through A Design Ideation Workshop, Muhammad Tufail, Xinyi Wang, Aichu Tian, Xinye Li, Sai Yin Leung, Sahr Uzma, Hyunyim Park, Kwanmyung Kim Oct 2023

Exploring The Design Applications Of Key Emerging Materials From Natural Sciences Through A Design Ideation Workshop, Muhammad Tufail, Xinyi Wang, Aichu Tian, Xinye Li, Sai Yin Leung, Sahr Uzma, Hyunyim Park, Kwanmyung Kim

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The design direction is shifting towards new design landscapes with alive and adaptive aesthetic features and functions and confronting natural alternative designs. Designers, architects, and artists have proposed the exploration of emerging materials by exploiting synthetic biology, bionics, chemical technology, and material science to create new design alternatives with natural aesthetic features and functions. In practice, however, designers are not properly familiar with the potential applications of these emerging materials and their alive and adaptive aesthetic and functional features in product design. Thus, particularly in traditional product design development, the applications of these materials are untouched resulting from three hindering …

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Changing Heritage, Rodolfo Maffeis, Trocchianesi Raffaella, Franzato Carlo, Mason Marco Oct 2023

Changing Heritage, Rodolfo Maffeis, Trocchianesi Raffaella, Franzato Carlo, Mason Marco

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The paper deals with changing processes of the cultural heritage through different perspectives: how the power of the change can be recognized both in the historic art masters approach and in their representations? How these historic art masters have triggered iconographic and conceptual agents of innovation? How Design for Cultural Heritage can envision new sustainable scenarios taking into account sociopolitical, cultural and climatic changes? In this complex context and age, what are new models of cultural experiences? What is the role of digital in museums transformation? Herein we will explore new definitions of contemporary museology and museography, like the digitally …

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Co-Creating Narratives Of Usefulness, Elisa Cardamone Oct 2023

Co-Creating Narratives Of Usefulness, Elisa Cardamone

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Health and social care are moving increasingly towards digital platforms and greater knowledge of people’s lifestyles and habits through numbers (Sharon 2016, 2017; Sharon & Zandbergen 2017; Rooksby et al. 2014; Swan 2013). However, among ageing populations, digital devices often enter households just to be forgotten in cupboards due to their lack of “usefulness” (Kim et al. 2022; Spann and Stewart 2018). Research shows that people aged 65 and older tend to use fewer technologies and to do so less frequently than younger individuals (Smith 2014). How can we empathise with the lived experience of ageing populations, designing devices that …

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Exploring And Facilitating Daoism's Contributions To Design Prototype, A Case Study From A "More-Than-Human" Social Innovation Project: Hokkhi, Jixiang Jiang, Shu Zhang, Yizao Wu Oct 2023

Exploring And Facilitating Daoism's Contributions To Design Prototype, A Case Study From A "More-Than-Human" Social Innovation Project: Hokkhi, Jixiang Jiang, Shu Zhang, Yizao Wu

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In the face of the current environmental crises and the emergent debate over how we as a species should respond to it, local-context discussions, research, and practice are rapidly growing in a number of regions. Within the confines of the design community, there is an ever-growing view of these discussions as representing a culturally diverse perspective on design, as opposed to the current Western-centric design shaped by modernism and capitalist market economies, and as representing the emergence of an emerging design scene of pluriverse. This study extends the concept of the oyster reef conservation project referred to as "Hokkhi," produced …

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How The Genai Sex Education Advisor Became Feasible: Exploring The Future Design Principles For Child Sex Education In The Community, Xiaoling Lin, Shuai Sun, Xuan He, Ai Zhang Oct 2023

How The Genai Sex Education Advisor Became Feasible: Exploring The Future Design Principles For Child Sex Education In The Community, Xiaoling Lin, Shuai Sun, Xuan He, Ai Zhang

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Children's sexual sensitivity in community settings poses challenges for caregivers who struggle to address inquiries appropriately. Establishing trust is crucial, as it affects children's willingness to seek help in case of abuse. Generative AI (GenAI) presents an opportunity to bridge the gap between expert counselling and wider populations. This study aimed to identify barriers, perceived advantages, limitations, and functional preferences of caregivers to accept GenAI-powered conversational agent that assist with child sex education. We chose ChatGPT as the design probe, providing caregivers with sex education guidance and analyzed the data using Grounded Theory. The Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use …

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Envisioning Sustainable Smartphone Alternatives: A Plurishop Approach, Ines Petra Junge, Alma Leora Culén Oct 2023

Envisioning Sustainable Smartphone Alternatives: A Plurishop Approach, Ines Petra Junge, Alma Leora Culén

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The increasingly precarious possible futures underscore the urgent need to reassess our lifestyles, consumption patterns, and interventions for the benefit of humanity, the planet, and the coexisting species. The ability to imagine radically different, desirable, and sustainable alternatives to products, services, and systems is crucial yet challenging, calling for creativity, new approaches, and methods. This paper discusses envisioning sustainable smartphone alternatives and pathways toward a strongly sustainable smartphone industry. We employ the ‘plurishop’, a workshop-based method that addresses several distinct inquiries into a design program of interest, in our case, that of envisioning sustainable smartphone alternatives. The plurishop was set …

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Improving The Patient-Doctor Relationship To Fight Antimicrobial Resistance Through Data Literacy Promoted By A Women-Centred Participatory Practice, Ginevra Terenghi Oct 2023

Improving The Patient-Doctor Relationship To Fight Antimicrobial Resistance Through Data Literacy Promoted By A Women-Centred Participatory Practice, Ginevra Terenghi

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Antimicrobial resistance is one of the current biggest public health concerns, especially urgent regarding antibiotic consumption caused by urinary tract infections, which affect women the most. Improving diagnosis and prescription help in reducing resistance development. For this reason, data literacy is suggested to enhance individuals' ability to recognize and describe symptoms and promote bottom-up data and information collection. A participatory approach to self-tracking practices, based on data visualization and physicalization, emerged in this direction to facilitate women in defining new methods of self-care valuation, promoting female agency, autonomy and knowledge creation. Based on the findings from the interdisciplinary literature review …

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Design Intervention To Aid Young Indians In Identifying Triggers Of Generalised Anxiety Disorder (Gad), Nilanjana Bairagi, Ajithsenb Selvadhas, Sowndarya Acharya Oct 2023

Design Intervention To Aid Young Indians In Identifying Triggers Of Generalised Anxiety Disorder (Gad), Nilanjana Bairagi, Ajithsenb Selvadhas, Sowndarya Acharya

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Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) is an emotional and fear-based, recurrent response to a perceived or real threat. It causes difficulty in dealing with every-day experiences. It afflicts 13.9% of the urban residents in India and requires a proactive approach to coping. GAD is not caused by stress but rather is sensitive to stress. Varying stimuli lead to automatic, unexpected and intense reactions called triggers. Awareness about triggers helps one understand their emotional thresholds and supports self-management. The existing literature provides a multi-variant perspective about nudges that cause anxiety. However, localised probing is minimal in India due to a lack of …

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Differences In The Use Of Analogies By Designers At Different Stages Of Conceptual Design, Han Lu, Hanwen Zhang, Jinfeng Lei, Yuan Zhu Oct 2023

Differences In The Use Of Analogies By Designers At Different Stages Of Conceptual Design, Han Lu, Hanwen Zhang, Jinfeng Lei, Yuan Zhu

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In recent years, analogies have been widely used in the design process as an effective means of accelerating product innovation. This study investigates the spontaneous use of analogies in conceptual design. We used the protocol approach to analyse differences in designers' use of analogies during the three stages of the conceptual design process (exploration, development and forming). The findings show that designers' analogy tasks and design tasks differ significantly in the proportion of design processes involving analogy. Their distribution also reflects the more frequent use of analogies in the exploratory and developmental phases of the designer's design process. This will …

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Contributions Of Slow Design To The Valorization Of Local Identities In Sustainable Processes, Danielle Comitre Thomaz, Ana Beatriz Avelino Barbosa, Polyanna Astrath Costa Oct 2023

Contributions Of Slow Design To The Valorization Of Local Identities In Sustainable Processes, Danielle Comitre Thomaz, Ana Beatriz Avelino Barbosa, Polyanna Astrath Costa

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Design research has been increasingly concerned with behavioural changes for emerging sustainable processes. This article, which has as a research question "How can Slow Design contribute to the valorization of local identities in sustainable processes?", presents Slow Design as a contributor to Social Innovation, in order to valorize the local identity of the communities, which are involved with authorial production. A Narrative Bibliographical Review methodology was carried out, combined with the ResearchGate, CAPES Periodical and Google Scholar databases, related to the strings "Slow Design" AND "Design for Sustainability" and also with the strings "Slow Design" AND "Design and Territory". Such …

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[Changing] Ecosystems, Carlo Vezzoli, Cindy Kohtala, Valentina Rognoli, Camilo Ayala Garcia Oct 2023

[Changing] Ecosystems, Carlo Vezzoli, Cindy Kohtala, Valentina Rognoli, Camilo Ayala Garcia

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This paper presents a review and critical analysis of papers submitted for the Ecosystems Track of the Life-Changing Design conference, which focused on "Changing Ecosystems" through design for sustainability. The conference track aimed to explore the multifaceted dimensions of sustainability and its connection to design practice, research, and education. The papers covered various subthemes, including products and product design, Sustainable Product-Service Systems, craft, materials, aesthetics, more-than-human design, biodesign, and the role of designers as actors in society influencing policy, local-global dynamics, place-making, strategy-setting, and stakeholder interactions. Through synthesising the findings and insights from these papers, this review aims to provide …

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Changing Products Through New Advancements In Design, Chiara Colombi, Venere Ferraro, Kwanmyung Kim Oct 2023

Changing Products Through New Advancements In Design, Chiara Colombi, Venere Ferraro, Kwanmyung Kim

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The present article discusses the importance of new processes, emerging materials, and new technologies as key strategies for conceiving, designing, and producing innovative products and systems. Over the past decade, advancements in these fields have significantly influenced how products and systems are conceptualized and designed, impacting the entire value chain and the methods for creating and changing business models. This transformation enables speculation and the crafting of new artifacts and future scenarios by altering how products are developed, upgraded, and updated, offering benefits in idea creation, experimentation, testing, and sustainability. The article presents the main topics through the subjects of …

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Offline And Online Collaboration In Providing Service Design Projects For Social Innovation To Villages: A Co-Creative Action In Quanzhou, Chenfan Zhang, Valentina Auricchio Oct 2023

Offline And Online Collaboration In Providing Service Design Projects For Social Innovation To Villages: A Co-Creative Action In Quanzhou, Chenfan Zhang, Valentina Auricchio

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In the field of rural revitalization, social innovation is seen as an added value for government institutions in contributing to a more prosperous society. Villages have gained increasing attention recently for achieving social innovation goals. With the support of social networks, there are many actors who can participate in the design of social innovation processes enhancing citizens' abilities to contribute . Meanwhile, The design community has developed many collaborative processes to contribute to this field, but these collaboration practices are largely local in nature and do not consider integrating online and offline collaboration. In 2022, CSDC (Chinese Service Design Community) …

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A Personality-Centred Design Approach For Virtual Humans On Correspondence With Roles And Behaviors, Shi Chen, Zhiying Zhu, Xiaodong Wang, Yuyang Zhang, Suqi Lou, Wei Xiang Oct 2023

A Personality-Centred Design Approach For Virtual Humans On Correspondence With Roles And Behaviors, Shi Chen, Zhiying Zhu, Xiaodong Wang, Yuyang Zhang, Suqi Lou, Wei Xiang

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With the gradual lowering of technological threshold and the increasing penetration rate of virtual reality and augmented reality devices, virtual humans (VHs) are increasingly intermediating users and information systems in various contexts. As a projection of VH's anthropomorphic stability, a set of personality traits is used to present contents and guide the generation of human-like behaviors. The large variety of VHs poses a challenge to their systematic design. This paper tries to establish an approach to practising a personality-centred design with consideration of other accompanying components. At first, the integrity of the VH personality is constructed, along with a personality …

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Identifying Meaningful User Experiences With Autonomous Products: A Case Study In Fundamental User Needs In Fully Autonomous Vehicles., Garoa Gomez-Beldarrain, Willem Van Der Maden, Siyuan Huang, Euiyoung Kim Oct 2023

Identifying Meaningful User Experiences With Autonomous Products: A Case Study In Fundamental User Needs In Fully Autonomous Vehicles., Garoa Gomez-Beldarrain, Willem Van Der Maden, Siyuan Huang, Euiyoung Kim

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Autonomous products (e.g., home cleaning robots, smart fridges, or autonomous vehicles) take over tasks that require time and effort from their users, redefining both the user roles and context around a product. Consequently, meaningful user experiences should be designed to overcome the risk of relegating humans to undesirable tasks and to take the opportunity of employing users’ newly available time, in contexts such as highly automated vehicles. Meaningful experiences are provided when fundamental user needs (i.e., universal needs that directly contribute to our wellbeing) are fulfilled. Nevertheless, designers face challenges in anticipating and fulfilling user needs related to autonomous products, …

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A Layered Approach To Designing Public Health Communication Diagram For Improved Information Accessibility, Young Ae Hahn, Byoungkwan Oh, Inhye Hwang Oct 2023

A Layered Approach To Designing Public Health Communication Diagram For Improved Information Accessibility, Young Ae Hahn, Byoungkwan Oh, Inhye Hwang

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Public health communication (PHC) material design requires information accessibility, consideration of the readers’ health literacy, prior knowledge levels, and the depth–length of information the reader can process without feeling too much cognitive burden. We proposed a layered approach to PHC diagram design: providing multi-layered (basic, extended) information, to support the reader’s cognitive activities of recognition and inference-making, while the basic layer reduces some readers’ cognitive loads. A qualitative test conducted with an example layered diagram of how COVID-19 vaccination works confirmed that (1) the college-educated readers in their 20s have an insufficient level of prior knowledge of vaccination and the …

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A Study On The Sense Of Being Alive Expressed In Motion, Ongon Witthayathada, Youngil Cho Oct 2023

A Study On The Sense Of Being Alive Expressed In Motion, Ongon Witthayathada, Youngil Cho

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Nonverbal communication has played an important role in society from prehistoric times until the present day. Motion graphics are a potent visual communication tool that not only transmits messages but also influences audience perception. Studying the effect of motion factors on human perception can enhance our understanding of human feeling and mechanism, which can lead to the development of new innovations. In this study, the sense of being alive was investigated due to its potential value in media and product development. What are the factors that influenced with the feeling of a sense of being alive? This question was raised. …

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Establishment Of Regional Industry Assessment System And Design Of Transformation Path In The Perspective Of Sustainable Transformation: The Case Of Huaihua City, China, Lisi You, Tie Ji, Binbin Shao, Han Meng, Yunyan Zhao Oct 2023

Establishment Of Regional Industry Assessment System And Design Of Transformation Path In The Perspective Of Sustainable Transformation: The Case Of Huaihua City, China, Lisi You, Tie Ji, Binbin Shao, Han Meng, Yunyan Zhao

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Based on the sustainability, synergy, and systemic nature of design research, this study combines the relevant theories and methods of economics and ecology to explore design-driven transformation and upgrade paths for the sustainable development of regional industries in the context of sustainable transformation. This study uses the city of Huaihua (a prefecture-level city in Hunan Province, China) as a case study. The regional industrial base is assessed by measuring the ecological footprint, human development index, and ecological welfare performance in Huaihua City. After, a mechanism for selecting leading regional industries based on quantitative data criteria was established using hierarchical analysis. …

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Elderly’S Perceptions Of A Meaningful Interaction With Voice-Based Conversational Agents: Integrate Into Daily Routines, Support Relatedness, But Do Not Hamper Autonomy, Hilal Şahin, Aslı Günay, Gülşen Töre Yargın Oct 2023

Elderly’S Perceptions Of A Meaningful Interaction With Voice-Based Conversational Agents: Integrate Into Daily Routines, Support Relatedness, But Do Not Hamper Autonomy, Hilal Şahin, Aslı Günay, Gülşen Töre Yargın

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Voice, as one of the most natural means of communication for the elderly given their declining physical and cognitive abilities, has the potential to reduce interaction barriers with newly emerging technologies. In parallel to this, studies focusing on the elderly as a user group have escalated in academia due to events such as the increasing ageing population and global epidemics like COVID-19. However, the focus has been mostly on their declining mental and physical abilities. This paper aims to investigate the hedonic aspects of Voice-based Conversational Agents (VCAs) for the elderly. In this respect, we conducted in-depth interviews with 13 …

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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 Oct 2023

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

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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 …

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