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

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

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


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

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

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


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

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

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


Brand Identity Design With Generative Ai: Between Automation And Authorship, Borami Kang, Yvette Shen Dec 2025

Brand Identity Design With Generative Ai: Between Automation And Authorship, Borami Kang, Yvette Shen

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Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is transforming brand identity design by dramatically compressing concept development cycles and expanding creative access to non-designers. Yet early adoption exposes unresolved legal, cultural, and quality risks that current design standards do not address. This ongoing study investigates how GenAI reshapes tools, workflows, and professional roles across the brand-identity lifecycle and identifies where human expertise remains essential to safeguard creative integrity. Using a mixed-methods, practice-led approach, the research draws on 1) six comparative case studies of branding projects launched between 2020 and 2025, 2) seven semi- structured interviews with designers, educators, technologists, and clients, and 3) …


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

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

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


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

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

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


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

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

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


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

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

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


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

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

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


Icma Cards: Developing A Modular Toolkit For Intelligent Cockpit Scenario Design, Zhongjie Xue, Danhua Zhao, Bingquan Wang Dec 2025

Icma Cards: Developing A Modular Toolkit For Intelligent Cockpit Scenario Design, Zhongjie Xue, Danhua Zhao, Bingquan Wang

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With the rapid advancement of technologies such as autonomous driving, the Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence, the intelligent cockpit has progressively evolved into a multifaceted space integrating diverse scenarios and tasks. In this context, conventional design methods and tools frequently prove inadequate for supporting concept generation and facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration. This paper introduces and empirically validates a modular creative tool — the ICMA (Intelligent cockpit Mission-action) card toolkit — which organizes the early design phase through a three-dimensional modular framework comprising mission, action, and spatial layout. This framework enables design teams to systematically manage complex design elements and develop …


Exploring The Role Of Big Data In Designers' Empathy And Problem Definition, Jiyoung Min, Hyesun Lee Dec 2025

Exploring The Role Of Big Data In Designers' Empathy And Problem Definition, Jiyoung Min, Hyesun Lee

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As the application of big data in design practice becomes increasingly prevalent, large-scale text-based user analysis is emerging as a critical tool for problem definition. However, there is a lack of empirical discussion on how this approach affects designers’ cognitive and emotional understanding. While previous studies have focused on outcome-oriented uses, this study analyzed the impact of providing big data-driven user information during the early stages of the design process on designers’ way of understanding users. In a workshop on “Design for Gen Z” with professional designers, participants were divided into control and experimental groups; the former received qualitative user …


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

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

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


An Intent Of Collaboration: On Agencies Between Designers And Emerging (Intelligent) Technologies, Pei-Ying Lin, Julie Heij, Iris Borst, Britt Joosten, Kristina Andersen, Wijnand Ijsselsteijn Dec 2025

An Intent Of Collaboration: On Agencies Between Designers And Emerging (Intelligent) Technologies, Pei-Ying Lin, Julie Heij, Iris Borst, Britt Joosten, Kristina Andersen, Wijnand Ijsselsteijn

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Amidst the emergence of powerful intelligent technologies such as LLMs and text-to-image AIs that promise to enhance creative processes, designers face the challenges of remaining empowered and creative while working with these foreign digital partners. While generative AIs offer versatile, informative, and occasionally poetic outcomes, their lack of embodied knowledge presents an even greater challenge to designers in gaining fruitful outcomes, such as in the field of Digital Craftsmanship. In this project, three designers embarked on a three-month experimental journey with an intention to co-create with Google’s LLM as a potential intelligent partner to investigate how it will influence the …


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

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

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


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

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

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


A Study Of Audience Behaviour And Interaction Mechanisms In Immersive Non-Gallery Exhibition Spaces: A Case Study Of Contemporary Exhibition Practice In China, Lanjie Li Dec 2025

A Study Of Audience Behaviour And Interaction Mechanisms In Immersive Non-Gallery Exhibition Spaces: A Case Study Of Contemporary Exhibition Practice In China, Lanjie Li

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Evolution of contemporary exhibition practices has challenged the dominance of the traditional ‘white cube’ model, which emphasizes the autonomy of artworks but often limits emotional engagement. This study examines audience interaction mechanisms and spatial experience in Chinese non-galleries, particularly in tourist, residential, and commercial cultural environments. Usingamixed methodological approach combining field observations, behavioral analysis, and questionnaires, that examine show spatial morphology, curatorialstrategy, and audience behavior together contribute to shaping the immersive experience. The results reveal different behavioral-emotional patterns depending on the type of space: tourist spaces encourage exploration and non-linear walking; residential spaces favor contextual immersion and emotional resonance; while …


Designing For Cultural Literacy: Adapting Japanese "Yomikikase" Practices In The Honduran Context, Sorayda Eleonora Maldonado Zapata, Tomohide Mizuuchi, Masanobu Nishimura Dec 2025

Designing For Cultural Literacy: Adapting Japanese "Yomikikase" Practices In The Honduran Context, Sorayda Eleonora Maldonado Zapata, Tomohide Mizuuchi, Masanobu Nishimura

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Design can be a living process, evolving alongside the people it is made for and the communities that shape it. Within the study of design, researchers have often focused on the world of picture books. But they rarely see them as portals of learning, starting points to cultivate reading habits that vary across cultures and educational backgrounds. This research examines how to incorporate Japanese principles of yomikikase読み聞かせ, or reading aloud, into the ethnic context of Honduras. The aim is to adapt this common Japanese practice into educational and private environments within Honduras, to promote early literacy, comprehension, and enjoyment. This …


Sustaining Regenerative Design Through Systemic Interventions: A Case Study Of Fish Cradle Rice Paddies, Tomohide Mizuuchi, Mami Yoda, Kazutoshi Tsuda, Eduardo Feteira, Danika Van Kaathoven Dec 2025

Sustaining Regenerative Design Through Systemic Interventions: A Case Study Of Fish Cradle Rice Paddies, Tomohide Mizuuchi, Mami Yoda, Kazutoshi Tsuda, Eduardo Feteira, Danika Van Kaathoven

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The pursuit of sustainability in regenerative design from a systemic perspective is becoming increasingly vital. In recent years, design practices aiming to reintegrate human social systems into the dynamics of natural ecosystems have gained global attention. At the same time, systemic design approaches that identify leverage points and facilitate transitions in complex social systems are also receiving increased interest. Even if regenerative efforts are undertaken at the intersection of ecological and human production systems, the restoration of ecosystems inherently requires a long temporal horizon. Thus, regenerative design must not remain a transient activity; the sustainability of the practices themselves is …


From Gaze To Choice: Integrating Wearable Eye-Tracking Technique Into Customer Journey Map To Explore How Visual Cues Impact Consumers' Decision-Making Processes In Sustainable Beverage Packaging., Yu-Ting Huang, Tseng-Ping Chiu Dec 2025

From Gaze To Choice: Integrating Wearable Eye-Tracking Technique Into Customer Journey Map To Explore How Visual Cues Impact Consumers' Decision-Making Processes In Sustainable Beverage Packaging., Yu-Ting Huang, Tseng-Ping Chiu

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In recent years, visual perception has gained growing attention in consumer marketing due to its pivotal role in purchase decision-making. As a core element of marketing communication, visual information not only affects consumers' initial attention and product recognition but also shapes their subsequent choices. However, how sustainable product packaging effectively conveys a clear and compelling sustainability image in cluttered retail shelf contexts remains a significant challenge. This study combines eye-tracking technology with customer journey maps (CJM) and semi-structured interviews to thoroughly examine consumers' visual responses and decision-making processes regarding sustainable beverage packaging in convenience stores. The findings reveal that consumers' …


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

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

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


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

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

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


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

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

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


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

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

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


Exploring And Co-Designing Typical Collaborative Scenarios In Mixed Reality: A Role-Based Approach, Fengyi Yan, Shuo Yan, Wensi Dai, Likun Zhao, Zixiao Liu Dec 2025

Exploring And Co-Designing Typical Collaborative Scenarios In Mixed Reality: A Role-Based Approach, Fengyi Yan, Shuo Yan, Wensi Dai, Likun Zhao, Zixiao Liu

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Mixed Reality (MR) collaboration enables users to work together in shared immersive environments, yet understanding how user roles naturally emerge and influence interaction preferences remains an open challenge. In this paper, we propose a comprehensive Role Interpretation Framework based on three core interpersonal dimensions—Dominance, Sociability, and Task Orientation—to systematically capture and explain user roles in MR collaboration. We validate this framework through a two-stage formative study involving two representative scenarios: a hierarchical Expert– Trainee assembly task and a non-hierarchical Co-Creation planning task. Through self-reflective analysis and participatory co-design workshops, we identify seven distinct collaborative roles and map their associated interaction …


Empowering Sustainable Transitions: A Design-Led Capacity-Building Framework, Silvia Maria Gramegna, Carmen Bruno, Erminia D'Itria, Francesca Mattioli, Michele Melazzini, Xue Pei Dec 2025

Empowering Sustainable Transitions: A Design-Led Capacity-Building Framework, Silvia Maria Gramegna, Carmen Bruno, Erminia D'Itria, Francesca Mattioli, Michele Melazzini, Xue Pei

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call for a radical rethinking of development models, supporting non-linear, decentralized, sustainable, and open solutions. In this context, plural design plays a strategic role by envisioning alternative scenarios, encouraging interdisciplinarity, and activating discontinuous innovation. Design must move beyond serving a single growth model, embracing multiplicity, collaboration, and inclusivity through contextual and interactive solutions. This is the framework of ECODeCK—ECO-Design Circular Knowledge, a project addressing the sustainable transition of Italy’s fashion and furniture sectors, which are tightly linked to both local and global socio-cultural systems. ECODeCK project adopts a design-driven approach that integrates systemic design and sustainability into business practices, supporting …


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

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

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


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

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

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


Visualization Design Of Traditional Chinese Opera Music Based On Chladni Figures: A Case Study Of The Yue Opera "The Butterfly Lovers", Ke Huang, Juanfang Xu, Zhipeng Han Dec 2025

Visualization Design Of Traditional Chinese Opera Music Based On Chladni Figures: A Case Study Of The Yue Opera "The Butterfly Lovers", Ke Huang, Juanfang Xu, Zhipeng Han

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The existing music visualization designs mostly focus on presenting information in a single dimension, and the interdisciplinary integration of acoustic characteristics and cultural semantics has not been deeply explored. To enhance the diverse dissemination of traditional operas in modern society, this paper proposes a music visualization design framework based on Chladni figures. Taking the Yue Opera "The Butterfly Lovers" as the object, an interdisciplinary path of "acoustic analysis-synesthesia translation" is constructed. Through Chladni experiments, the vibration patterns of musical sound waves are deconstructed, and acoustic attributes such as pitch and rhythm are transformed into graphic primitives. Meanwhile, relying on Thayer's …


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

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

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


A Study On The Design Of Tourism Souvenirs Based On Regional Culture: A Case Research Of Macau Souvenir Stamps, Caifei Sun, Weijia Wang Dec 2025

A Study On The Design Of Tourism Souvenirs Based On Regional Culture: A Case Research Of Macau Souvenir Stamps, Caifei Sun, Weijia Wang

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This study uses Macau, a city where Chinese and Western cultures intersect, as the context for the research, focusing on tourist souvenir stamps and their visual elements. Through field observation, interviews, and visual analysis, it explores how design facilitates the preservation and transmission of regional culture through tourist souvenir stamps and their associated usage behaviors. It uncovers the mechanism by which regional culture is disseminated with stamps as the core medium, extending to the transformation of local cultural symbols into a variety of souvenirs through different media—an important foundation for building a system of cultural regeneration within artistic and tourism …