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Wearing Black When Feeling Blue: An Exploration Of The Relationship Between Clothing And Mood., Rins Lindeman, Pieter M. A. Desmet, Maurizio Filippi Oct 2023

Wearing Black When Feeling Blue: An Exploration Of The Relationship Between Clothing And Mood., Rins Lindeman, Pieter M. A. Desmet, Maurizio Filippi

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The relationship between an individual’s outfit and their mood is complex and varies from person to person. Yet, every garment possesses characteristics that can influence, intensify, or conceal the wearer’s mood. This paper explores this relationship between outfits and the wearer’s mood, examining how clothing choices can affect mood and they can be used to alter it. Through a combination of a literature study and an exploratory questionnaire study that asked people to take photographs of their outfits, key garment characteristics have been determined for four distinct moods: tense, cheerful, gloomy, and relaxed. These characteristics were used to create a …

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Dynamic Personalities For Elderly Care Robots: User-Based Recommendations, Daehun Lee, Kwanmyung Kim, Alisher Saduakas, Ulugbek Vahobjon Ugli Ismatullaev, Joongsoo Kim, Bertha Patricia Barrera Garza Oct 2023

Dynamic Personalities For Elderly Care Robots: User-Based Recommendations, Daehun Lee, Kwanmyung Kim, Alisher Saduakas, Ulugbek Vahobjon Ugli Ismatullaev, Joongsoo Kim, Bertha Patricia Barrera Garza

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The increasing population of older people worldwide has led to growth in the silver market. In response to this trend, various elderly care robots have emerged in recent years to provide physical assistance and support to the elderly. However, these robots are limited in their functions as they do not cater to the mental, emotional, and social needs of the elderly. Hence, this paper proposes the development of elderly care robots with personalities that can dynamically communicate with the elderly in uncertain situations throughout their lifetime, thus fulfilling their remaining needs. This research analyzed previous studies on social and elderly …

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Metro Interior Design To Reduce The Occurrence Of Metro Congestion, Peng Ji, Yuxin Wen, Li Zhou Oct 2023

Metro Interior Design To Reduce The Occurrence Of Metro Congestion, Peng Ji, Yuxin Wen, Li Zhou

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The congestion in metro cars not only reduces the commuting experience of passengers during the transportation process but also poses a threat to passenger safety. The purpose of this study is to explore a way to even out the distribution of passengers in the carriage. First, we determined the mechanism of passenger distribution and the typical layout of carriages through real train statistics and a questionnaire survey, and obtained the unitized space of seven types of typical carriage interior layouts in four regions; based on this, we introduced the concept of spatial attractiveness, defined the calculation method of the attractiveness …

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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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For Who Page? Tiktok Creators’ Algorithmic Dependencies, Laura Herman Oct 2023

For Who Page? Tiktok Creators’ Algorithmic Dependencies, Laura Herman

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This paper examines how TikTok impacts creativity through an investigation of the platform’s interaction and algorithmic design. Through one-on-one interviews, autoethnography, walkthroughs, and observation, this research reveals how TikTok’s design is impacting the creative processes, form, aesthetics, and topics of videos shared on the platform. The results demonstrate how both algorithmic and interaction design mediate video elements such as sounds, timing, style, language, trends, length, and more. TikTok’s “Duet” feature is taken as a case study, demonstrating that participants are engaging in certain creative forms and processes to increase algorithmic visibility, which is primed by the platform’s design. The results …

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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] Spaces And Services, Davide Fassi, Daniela Sangiorgi, Annalinda De Rosa, Francesco Vergani, Brian Dixon, Lou Yongqi Oct 2023

[Changing] Spaces And Services, Davide Fassi, Daniela Sangiorgi, Annalinda De Rosa, Francesco Vergani, Brian Dixon, Lou Yongqi

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This track aims to delve into and extend an ongoing discourse concerning the interplay between spatial and service design, to foster a coordinated approach to designing spaces and delivering services as a single entity. The exploration revolves around how the coordinated approach in the design of spaces, interiors, and services is shaping the evolution of our modern lifestyle within intricate urban landscapes. This relation integrated into the design process facilitates the harmonization of functions, incites creative initiatives, amplifies public involvement, ensures inclusivity and diversity, and influences the behaviours occurring within a space. This topic has provided a platform for formulating …

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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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Embracing Digital Offboarding As A Design Challenge, Sabine Junginger Oct 2023

Embracing Digital Offboarding As A Design Challenge, Sabine Junginger

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Most services we will use or rely on in the future will either contain a digital component or be fully digital. Given the multitude of pressures that are currently reshaping the public sector, great efforts are underway to increase the range of digital public service offerings. Design research and design practice currently contribute to the development of innovative digital public services. In addition, designers support the onboarding experience for people working in public administrations and the members of the public who benefit from or depend on these. This paper argues that we need to explore the needs and implications of …

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Digital For Heritage And Museums: Design-Driven Changes And Challenges, Eleonora Lupo, Giuseppe Camosino, Beatrice Gobbo, Martina Motta, Michele Mauri, Marina Parente, Elena Spadoni, Davide Spallazzo, Federica Rubino Oct 2023

Digital For Heritage And Museums: Design-Driven Changes And Challenges, Eleonora Lupo, Giuseppe Camosino, Beatrice Gobbo, Martina Motta, Michele Mauri, Marina Parente, Elena Spadoni, Davide Spallazzo, Federica Rubino

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In the recent decade, cultural institutions have increasingly embraced digital technologies as key resources for accomplishing their mission and innovating their cultural activities. In the present work, we attempt to disentangle through a design-driven and multidisciplinary approach the challenges brought by digital transformation in the cultural heritage sector. A diversified research team has thus been involved to include scholars with different backgrounds around the common phenomenon of investigation of Digital (Cultural) Heritage, under the Design Think Thank project. The Introduction is followed by a Methodological section, which outlines the approach to select and review case studies from the exploratory literature …

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"Design Laboratories System As A Tool To Enable Interdisciplinary Design Learning: Analysis Of Common Approaches And New Perspectives.", Nicola Besana, Mauro Attilio Ceconello Oct 2023

"Design Laboratories System As A Tool To Enable Interdisciplinary Design Learning: Analysis Of Common Approaches And New Perspectives.", Nicola Besana, Mauro Attilio Ceconello

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Design Laboratories Systems (DLS) have become a crucial component of design schools and institutions, allowing students to learn actively design concepts and techniques through prototyping. The fast-paced changes in today's technological paradigm have led to new ways of learning and prototyping support services and open-access resources, highlighting the need to re-evaluate the effectiveness of existing lab models and explore fresh opportunities for interdisciplinary innovation and advancement. The study underlines the impact of (i) the diffusion of new prototyping technologies, (ii) the proliferation of Fab labs, (iii) the growth of open-access digital libraries and online communities, and (iv) the emergence 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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Social Innovation For Climate Neutrality In Cities: Actionable Pathways For Policymakers, Sabrina Bresciani, Cyril Tjahja, Tamami Komatsu, Francesca Rizzo Oct 2023

Social Innovation For Climate Neutrality In Cities: Actionable Pathways For Policymakers, Sabrina Bresciani, Cyril Tjahja, Tamami Komatsu, Francesca Rizzo

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Climate neutrality is an urgent and complex challenge that cannot be solved with technological solutions alone but requires a systemic approach. Social innovation is a key lever of change in socio-technical transformations: promoting social innovation at urban level can empower communities in shaping sustainable behaviour and collective action to tackle climate change. To promote and scale social innovation at urban level for reaching climate neutrality, politicians and policymakers need to be aware of effective practices that can be implemented that match a city’s readiness level. With the aim to develop a framework to support public administrations and policymakers in making …

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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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What`S The Social Trust Mechanism Blending Virtual And Reality In The Context Of Digital Media?, Yunlu Liu, Yuqi Liu, Tongwen Sun, Mingshuo Zhang Oct 2023

What`S The Social Trust Mechanism Blending Virtual And Reality In The Context Of Digital Media?, Yunlu Liu, Yuqi Liu, Tongwen Sun, Mingshuo Zhang

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In the current era of digitalization, trust has emerged as a crucial factor in socialisation through digital media. However, due to the uncertain nature of individual identities in the digital realm, it poses a challenge to translate social trust in virtual identities into social trust in real identities, particularly for social activities that necessitate a blend of online and offline integration. The outbreak of catastrophic public health crises such as COVID-19 in recent years has had a profound impact on people's social trust in the physical world. By scrutinising the attributes of social trust, this study advocates three distinct categories …

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Service Co-Design To Envision The Transformation Of Museums, Annamaria Recupero, Patrizia Marti, Georg Regal, Andreas Sackl Oct 2023

Service Co-Design To Envision The Transformation Of Museums, Annamaria Recupero, Patrizia Marti, Georg Regal, Andreas Sackl

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This paper presents an ongoing co-design project to develop new services to make cultural heritage accessible and engaging for older people with disability, even beyond the museums’ context. A group of stakeholders including museum staff, older adults, healthcare professionals, designers, technology providers, and accessibility experts were involved in reflective and hands-on creative activities to develop a future-based vision of barrier-free cultural experiences. The project serves to support the innovation of the cultural sector beyond the digital transformation: indeed, the new services are not limited to the adoption of key enabling technologies, rather they call for new areas of intervention outside …

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Material Connaissance As A Tacit Knowledge Co-Creation Method, Spyros Bofylatos, Niki Boukouvala Oct 2023

Material Connaissance As A Tacit Knowledge Co-Creation Method, Spyros Bofylatos, Niki Boukouvala

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This paper builds on a model developed to engage in shared material experience in a protocol inspired by wine tasting: the Material Connaissance Method. In this paper the theoretical framework and motivation is discussed. In the first section the material experience model based on wine tasting protocols is briefly presented, followed by a literature review in the fields of material experience and tacit knowledge co-creation. The paper concludes with a reflection of the initial pilots of the protocol and their theoretical repercussions. The main contribution of the paper is the proposal of a framework for engaging in research through design …

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Visual And Spatial Design For Proximity Healthcare: The Meta-Design Book Of “Case E Ospedali Di Comunità” Of Regione Lombardia, Andrea Manciaracina, Melania Vicentini, Barbara Camocini, Luisa Collina Oct 2023

Visual And Spatial Design For Proximity Healthcare: The Meta-Design Book Of “Case E Ospedali Di Comunità” Of Regione Lombardia, Andrea Manciaracina, Melania Vicentini, Barbara Camocini, Luisa Collina

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The Covid experience has prompted public institutions to develop and try new strategies to better address healthcare facilities to the citizens and their community: the so-called proximity healthcare. It treats the user as a guest, conveying a feeling of home and hospitality. Like landmarks, these structures can be considered territorial references, inclusive and enabling support to patients and the local community. In addition, the act of caring and responsibility towards others and the community is fostered through the inclusion and welcoming of the individual within the community itself. Regione Lombardia received funds from the national Recovery and Resilience Plan to …

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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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Aqueous Logics: Towards A Hydro Feminism Approach To Sustainability, Beatrice Maggipinto, Valentina Nisi, Sarah Fox, Nuno Nunes, Tom Ainsworth Oct 2023

Aqueous Logics: Towards A Hydro Feminism Approach To Sustainability, Beatrice Maggipinto, Valentina Nisi, Sarah Fox, Nuno Nunes, Tom Ainsworth

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In the popular imagination, sustainability is often synonymous with environmentalism, but it encapsulates much more. While environmentalism and conservation are often a focal point of sustainability efforts, so too are the people who impact the environment through their actions and associated activism. In this paper, we examine the discourse on sustainability, nature conservation and climate change. We focus, in particular, on the relationship between humans and the seas, where three main topics entangle: eco-feminism, ocean conservation and well-being. This paper highlights its implications for research on sustainability, nature conservation and climate change by outlining an aqueous logic — a fluid …

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Designing Interfaces For Text-To-Image Prompt Engineering Using Stable Diffusion Models: A Human-Ai Interaction Approach, Seonuk Kim, Taeyoung Ko, Yousang Kwon, Kyungho Lee Oct 2023

Designing Interfaces For Text-To-Image Prompt Engineering Using Stable Diffusion Models: A Human-Ai Interaction Approach, Seonuk Kim, Taeyoung Ko, Yousang Kwon, Kyungho Lee

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The use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) is more vital ever than before to create new content, especially images. Recent breakthroughs in text-to-image diffusion models showed the potential to drastically change the way we approach image content creation. However, artists still face challenges when attempting to create images that reflect their specific themes and formats, as the current generative systems, such as Stable Diffusion models, require the right prompts to achieve the desired artistic outputs. In this paper, we propose future design considerations to develop more intuitive and effective interfaces that can be used for text-to-image prompt engineering from a …

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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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Data Challenge. Re-Thinking The Library As A Learning Space To Intersect Youth, Culture And Gender Diversity., Elena Formia, Valentina Gianfrate, Simona Colitti, Margherita Ascari, Lorela Mehmeti Oct 2023

Data Challenge. Re-Thinking The Library As A Learning Space To Intersect Youth, Culture And Gender Diversity., Elena Formia, Valentina Gianfrate, Simona Colitti, Margherita Ascari, Lorela Mehmeti

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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on public spaces, which has become an urban variable that changes people's mindset and perception about their use, fruition, affection, and considerations. The Data Challenge project research identifies a common thread between gender-related data, public spaces of libraries and the approach of younger generations to cultural facilities. Service design methodologies can support change in the public sector and foster democratic processes in the co-creation of knowledge. The research uses two main pillars: design research and practices to innovate existing services for young people and "Citizens as scientists" processes to analyse quantitative and …

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Fixing The Future: Cultivating A Capacity To Repair Iot Devices Through Experiential Futures, Matthew Pilling, Michael Stead, Paul Coulton, Thomas Macpherson-Pope Oct 2023

Fixing The Future: Cultivating A Capacity To Repair Iot Devices Through Experiential Futures, Matthew Pilling, Michael Stead, Paul Coulton, Thomas Macpherson-Pope

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As the global consumption of electronic devices continues to grow, so too does the volume of electronic waste (e-waste) that reaches landfill sites, which by 2030, is expected to reach 74.7M tonnes worldwide. This problem is exacerbated by the fact that across Europe less than 40% of e-waste is subject to sustainable recovery and further reinforced by the planned obsolescence of devices. An increasing amount of e-waste can be characterised as so-called ‘smart’ Internet of Things (IoT) devices. This paper firstly describes how our research engaged with industry and community stakeholders to explore their perceptions and behaviours relating to electronic …

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Examining The Affordance Effect Of Shifting Symbols On The Virtual Buttons Of Smartphones, Ming-Da Wu, Hsi-Jen Chen Oct 2023

Examining The Affordance Effect Of Shifting Symbols On The Virtual Buttons Of Smartphones, Ming-Da Wu, Hsi-Jen Chen

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The concept of on-screen affordance suggests that the visual properties of digital objects can affect how users perceive their function and operation. This study aimed to investigate the on-screen affordance of virtual buttons on smartphones and examine whether the visual properties of virtual buttons, such as symbol position, would affect users' entry performance on smartphones. To this end, the study has designed a shifting symbol that suggests where to tap on virtual buttons, thereby helping users tap the button center. This study adopted a two-way within-subject design: 2 (symbol position: static mode vs. dynamic mode) × 26 (key position: 26 …

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Change Management By Design. Design As A Flow Improver In Turbulent Times, Valentina De Matteo Oct 2023

Change Management By Design. Design As A Flow Improver In Turbulent Times, Valentina De Matteo

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“One of the most significant facts of our time is the predominance of organizations. Perhaps this is the most significant. It will take time to fully understand its effects on individuals' thinking and behavior. Only a few of them will not be affected by this conditioning process”. If we read this sentence today, for the first time, without knowing its context, date and source, we would first of all be struck by its timeliness. We could also assume that we are dealing with an extract from a publication in the field of economics or business organization aimed at investigating the …

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Museums On-Chain? A Designerly Contribution In The Development Of Blockchain-Based Digital Strategies In Cultural Institutions., Federica Rubino Oct 2023

Museums On-Chain? A Designerly Contribution In The Development Of Blockchain-Based Digital Strategies In Cultural Institutions., Federica Rubino

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Blockchain technologies have been referred to as potential drivers for paradigm shifts in the arts and cultural sector. Their multiple applications in the cultural and creative industries have recently started to be discussed by scholars, mainly coming from social and computer science disciplines. From crypto-collectibles for archiving and documentation purposes to rights management and digital protection, fundraising, and decentralization purposes: the potential use cases of blockchain technologies are varied, as are varied the actors in the cultural and creative ecosystems that have started experimenting with these disruptive technologies. Nevertheless, despite the turmoil experienced from the practitioners’ side, cultural institutions remain …

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A Production Pipeline For An Ai-Powered Design Course, Gerry Derksen Oct 2023

A Production Pipeline For An Ai-Powered Design Course, Gerry Derksen

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We are entering a period of disruption in design which is up ending the process and in turn changing design education. By extension, the practice and profession will also be changed because of artificial intelligent (AI) tools which use machine learning (ML) technology. Current commercial versions of AI tools have already produced novel results sending a signal to design educators to consider the implications and future of design teaching. This paper introduces a new course being developed at our University in Graphic Communications to develop a pipeline which uses only online AI content generators to produce designs based on a …

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Explore The Online Interdisciplinary Co-Design In Higher Education, Xueting Wu, Yi Ning, Kendon Jung, Huabing Yu Oct 2023

Explore The Online Interdisciplinary Co-Design In Higher Education, Xueting Wu, Yi Ning, Kendon Jung, Huabing Yu

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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Arizona State University implemented online courses in the Fall of 2021; this research examines a graduate-level online co-design pilot course in which students came from interdisciplinary backgrounds. Most students had never taken this type of online co-design course before, providing the chance to understand how novice students could work together more effectively. The authors interviewed the students in the class to explore how online co-design affects interdisciplinary student collaboration and participation. These online co-design courses work well in many situations but still leave several gaps. First, many students attended the co-design course for the first …

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Introducing Design For Public Sector Innovation In Nigeria’S Federal Government, Vaz Federico Oct 2023

Introducing Design For Public Sector Innovation In Nigeria’S Federal Government, Vaz Federico

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Nigeria’s position as a top-five African country for businesses and entrepreneurs is challenged by a complex social and political environment, including insecurity, inflation, and public sector inefficiencies. The Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) is tasked with improving Nigeria's business environment by addressing these bottlenecks through governmental reforms. However, they have encountered ‘reform fatigue’ amongst collaborating government organisations and are seeking alternative approaches to achieve their goals. This case study centres on the collaboration between PEBEC and MIT GOV/LAB from September 2022 to January 2023. During this time, an MIT GOV/LAB Designer-Researcher (DR) joined PEBEC to pilot an experimental approach …

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