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Understanding Coach–Learner Interaction In Fitness Training For Next-Generation Wearables, Yewon Kim, Jisu Park, Tek-Jin Nam Dec 2025

Understanding Coach–Learner Interaction In Fitness Training For Next-Generation Wearables, Yewon Kim, Jisu Park, Tek-Jin Nam

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Understanding interaction between the coach and learner is pivotal in fitness training, yet most fitness technologies emphasize functional metrics over the dynamics of human interaction. To inform the design of more interaction-aware wearable coaching systems, we examined how instructional exchanges unfold during squat training, an activity that requires frequent feedback. We conducted a two-phase interview study involving eight professional coaches and eight adult learners. Through hybrid thematic analysis, we identified two complementary types of cues: action-oriented cues, which specify how to move, and sensation-oriented cues, which direct the learner’s attention to internal bodily sensations. These cues are delivered through verbal, …

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When The Familiar Fades: Designing Immersive Vr Narratives For Affective Empathy, Fengyihan Wu, Shu Ye, Xin Liu, Zihang Zou Dec 2025

When The Familiar Fades: Designing Immersive Vr Narratives For Affective Empathy, Fengyihan Wu, Shu Ye, Xin Liu, Zihang Zou

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This research explores how immersive virtual reality (VR) storytelling can foster empathy toward people living with dementia. Developed through a Research through Design (RtD) approach, the project simulates symptoms such as disorientation, memory loss, and language disruption using symbolic interaction and narrative fragmentation. A hybrid narrative structure combines fictional sequences with real-life audio testimony. User evaluations revealed that while immersive metaphors effectively conveyed confusion and emotional vulnerability, the inclusion of authentic voices significantly deepened empathic engagement. These findings suggest that VR, when grounded in lived experience, holds strong potential for affective communication in health-related design. The study contributes to research …

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Reconstructing Cultural Value In Teaware Design: Regional Cultural Impacts In Zisha And Cizhou Ceramics, Wen Kong, Yuanchuan Chen Dec 2025

Reconstructing Cultural Value In Teaware Design: Regional Cultural Impacts In Zisha And Cizhou Ceramics, Wen Kong, Yuanchuan Chen

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This study investigates how regional cultural differences influence users’ perceptions and behavioral responses toward traditional Chinese teaware. Two representative categories were selected: Yixing Zisha teaware from Jiangnan and Cizhou Kiln teaware from northern China. Drawing on the three-tier structure of culture: material, structural, and spiritual, this study identifies aesthetic perception, perceived innovative ness and usability, and cultural identity as key constructs. Their effects on perceived value and purchase intention are examined. A two-item comparative questionnaire was administered in both regions to collect evaluations of the two types of teaware. Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was employed to evaluate …

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Amplifying Underrepresented Voices In Heritage Storytelling Through Generative Ai, Zijing Song, Christian Wagner, Sifan Chen, Chihiro Sato Dec 2025

Amplifying Underrepresented Voices In Heritage Storytelling Through Generative Ai, Zijing Song, Christian Wagner, Sifan Chen, Chihiro Sato

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Community-led and participatory approaches to heritage storytelling have recently been advocated, yet ordinary citizens often lack the skills to actively participate in such endeavours. Meanwhile, outsiders and younger individuals struggle to empathize with local traditional cultural heritage practices, resulting in superficial encounters with the heritage and diminished appreciation for its emotional and historical depth. In response, this study examines a human-AI co-creation process developed through a series of workshops held during the Kawagoe Festival 2024 in Japan. It investigates how generative AI (GenAI) can serve as co-creative agent, empowering older citizens and non-experts to create emotionally resonant digital storytelling based …

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"Memory Space": A Spatial Narrative Smart Tourism Design For Generation Z, Sanqi Yang, Yueru Chen, Park Jaehyun Dec 2025

"Memory Space": A Spatial Narrative Smart Tourism Design For Generation Z, Sanqi Yang, Yueru Chen, Park Jaehyun

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The communities of knowledge and practice have faced challenges in understanding the emotion- driven, nonlinear travel behaviours of Generation Z (Gen Z) travellers when developing smart tourism design solutions. To tackle this issue, our study conducted fourteen in-depth interviews with Gen Z participants, revealing a “privacy-expression paradox.” Gen Z travellers are eager to showcase their personal travel experiences creatively; however, they also wish to maintain privacy boundaries within their generation. Based on this insight, we developed a “spatial narrative framework” with three design features: spatial-emotional narrative, user-calibrated disclosure, and emotion abstraction, using Spatial Narrative Theory as our theoretical foundation. To …

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Towards The Legibility Of Ai: Moving Beyond Ai Fiction, Franziska Pilling Dec 2025

Towards The Legibility Of Ai: Moving Beyond Ai Fiction, Franziska Pilling

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For viewers, science fiction serves as a vital source of images and representations of science and technology. Films heavily influence our views on technology and have contributed to the confusion surrounding what AI technology signifies. This research also draws on science fiction and techno science in contemporary films, as cinema and television serve as practical litmus tests for social unease and yearnings. From alien invasions that paralleled Cold War paranoias of the 1950s to contemporary anxieties about creating artificial intelligence that renders humans redundant. This paper provides an ontological overview of AI technology, explores the challenges AI presents, and suggests …

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Bridges Of Inspiration: Ai-Based Search And Generation For Inspiration-Driven Creative Workflow, Ruoxuan Ma, Yulu Yang, Yi Xiao Dec 2025

Bridges Of Inspiration: Ai-Based Search And Generation For Inspiration-Driven Creative Workflow, Ruoxuan Ma, Yulu Yang, Yi Xiao

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Facing increasingly complex innovation demands and design challenges, designers urgently need more effective tools and methodologies to stimulate creativity and break through cognitive limitations. To address this, this study proposes an innovative interdisciplinary approach—the AI-driven workflow, which aims to significantly enhance the conceptual design process. The rapid development of deep learning technologies in recent years has enabled AI not only to assist but also to actively participate in the innovation process, opening up new avenues for collaborative innovation between humans and machines. The core objective of this research is to explore how AI can improve designers' innovative efficiency by optimizing …

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The Role Of Feedback In Design Studio Critiques: An Exploratory Study, Yi-Ting Chen, Najla Mouchrek Dec 2025

The Role Of Feedback In Design Studio Critiques: An Exploratory Study, Yi-Ting Chen, Najla Mouchrek

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Feedback plays a pivotal role in design education, particularly within the dynamic context of studio critiques. While critiques aim to foster design skills and professional identity, many students struggle to process feedback, navigate emotional responses, and make informed design decisions. Unstructured critique processes can heighten stress and uncertainty, hindering effective learning. This study investigates how critique culture impacts beginner design students and explores structured tools that support more confident engagement with feedback. Guided by the question, “How might we empower students to make more confident and informed decisions based on the instructors feedback in studio classes?”, this mixed-method study, comprising …

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Scaffolding The Story: An Llm-Based Assessment Of A Next-Generation Narrative Structure Generator, Sheng-Wen Hsiao, Chien-Hsiung Chen Dec 2025

Scaffolding The Story: An Llm-Based Assessment Of A Next-Generation Narrative Structure Generator, Sheng-Wen Hsiao, Chien-Hsiung Chen

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This study tackles a dual challenge in writing assessment: validating the reliability of a Large Language Model (LLM) as an automated evaluator and assessing the efficacy of a Narrative Structure Generator (NSG) in improving the structural quality of story outlines. Through a systematic methodology of prompt engineering and repeated evaluations, we first established a highly reliable automated assessment framework using Google Gemini 1.5 Pro. The framework demonstrated excellent inter- rater reliability (ICC) and internal consistency (Cronbach's Alpha), successfully mitigating the model's inherent stochastic ity. Leveraging this validated tool, a within-subjects experiment was conducted to compare outlines produced by students with …

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Design Critique Reimagined: Instructors' Expectations Of Ai Feedback, Chuhan Li, Qianqian Hu, Fang Liu Dec 2025

Design Critique Reimagined: Instructors' Expectations Of Ai Feedback, Chuhan Li, Qianqian Hu, Fang Liu

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In industrial design education, design critique plays a critical role in fostering students’ critical thinking and facilitating iterative design improvements. However, traditional critique methods are often constrained by time limitations, subjectivity bias, the challenge of addressing diverse student needs, and the pressures instructors face from managing multiple responsibilities. As multimodal large language models (MLLMs) become more advanced, there is potential for these tools to support the critique process. However, little research has been done on how instructors perceive AI-powered critique tools in industrial design scenario. This study explores industrial design instructors’ expectations for AI-driven critique tools by evaluating a prototype …

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Designing Virtual Reality Grocery Shopping Services For Older Adults: An Exploratory Study, Yuanyuan Yin, Xiao Wei, Yimeng Li, Shunyu Yao, Jingnan Bian, Jiangpan Niu, Lian Pan Dec 2025

Designing Virtual Reality Grocery Shopping Services For Older Adults: An Exploratory Study, Yuanyuan Yin, Xiao Wei, Yimeng Li, Shunyu Yao, Jingnan Bian, Jiangpan Niu, Lian Pan

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This study investigates older adults' perceptions, expectations, and concerns regarding Virtual Reality (VR)-based grocery shopping, with the intention of exploring both barriers and opportunities within virtual retail environments and obtaining design insights towards an age-friendly VR shopping platform. Using a mixed-method approach, that includes VR trials, interviews, observations, and focus groups, this study identifies key opportunities and limitations of VR shopping for aged 65+ customers. Findings suggest several benefits of VR shopping, including enhanced mobility, immersive realism, reduced decision fatigue, and cognitive and sensory engagement. Participants responded positively to intuitive spatial navigation, interactive product handling, and familiar supermarket elements, which …

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Research On The Immersive Experience Of Ancient Chinese Poems And The Construction Of Virtual Scenes From The Perspective Of Aigc: A Case Study Of Xiangyang City, Zhiyu Zhao, Wenjia Yu Dec 2025

Research On The Immersive Experience Of Ancient Chinese Poems And The Construction Of Virtual Scenes From The Perspective Of Aigc: A Case Study Of Xiangyang City, Zhiyu Zhao, Wenjia Yu

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The poetry of the Tang and Song Dynasties holds deep cultural and artistic significance. Traditional methods of spreading these works relied on reading and memorization. These approaches often failed to engage the senses or emotions of audiences. The rise of Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) technology has created new opportunities for reimagining classical poetry in digital forms. This study focuses on Xiangyang city and uses AIGC to develop immersive poetry games and virtual scenes. By reconstructing poetic imagery digitally, the research aims to deepen and broaden cultural communication. This study used a mixed-methods approach, integrating literature analysis, case studies, and …

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Integrating Ai In Design Education: Lessons From A Cross-Disciplinary Curriculum Sprint, Valeria Lopez Torres, F. Andres Tellez, Yuanqing Tian, Iyare Oronsaye, Newton Dsouz Prabhu, Topher Maraffi, Meg Calkins Dec 2025

Integrating Ai In Design Education: Lessons From A Cross-Disciplinary Curriculum Sprint, Valeria Lopez Torres, F. Andres Tellez, Yuanqing Tian, Iyare Oronsaye, Newton Dsouz Prabhu, Topher Maraffi, Meg Calkins

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As artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly transforms professional design practice, academic programs face the challenge of preparing students for AI-augmented creative work while maintaining foundational skills and values. This case study examines a faculty-led initiative within the College of Design at a US University, where a sprint-style working group was formed to develop recommendations for integrating AI into design curricula. From January to May 2025, seven faculty representatives from distinct design disciplines collaborated through monthly meetings, program-specific consultations, and thematic analysis to identify opportunities, risks, and cross-cutting needs related to AI in design education. Using a qualitative, participatory approach grounded in …

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A Study On The Preferences And Design Strategies Of Young Consumers For 'Ugly-Cute' Plush Toys, Junjie Zhang, Yufei Zeng Dec 2025

A Study On The Preferences And Design Strategies Of Young Consumers For 'Ugly-Cute' Plush Toys, Junjie Zhang, Yufei Zeng

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This study investigates the role of 'ugly-cute' design in shaping young consumers' aesthetic preferences and purchase decisions, using plush toys as the research object. Grounded in Donald Norman's emotional design theory, it explores how unconventional visual features challenge traditional aesthetic norms while eliciting emotional resonance and supporting self-expression. A two-stage experiment was conducted: in the first stage, participants rated the aesthetic appeal of 14 plush toys to identify perceptual differences. In the second stage, the toys were grouped based on ratings, and participants made purchase decisions and selected motivations, aiming to reveal the emotional, social, and expressive drivers behind preferences …

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Muse (Multispecies Sensory Engagement): Enhancing Emotional Bonds With Microorganisms, Logan Shockey, Elena Sabinson Dec 2025

Muse (Multispecies Sensory Engagement): Enhancing Emotional Bonds With Microorganisms, Logan Shockey, Elena Sabinson

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This paper introduces MuSE (Multispecies Sensory Engagement), an interactive silicone bioreactor designed to create emotional bonds between humans and kombucha SCOBY microorganisms. Guided by a More-than-Human-Centered-Design (MtHCD) and Research through Design (RtD) framework, this project applies the concepts of exposure therapy and embodied cognition to biology-based HCI, using an auto-ethnographic approach to explore how sensory interactions can shift human perceptions of less relatable life forms. MuSE translates the microorganisms health into sensory cues, creating opportunities for users to engage in caretaking and build empathy through light, movement and touch. Our RtD process results in two contributions: a design exemplar that …

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System-Moderated Immersion: Modeling Presence, Agency, And Ai Interaction In Vr Learning, Paolo Mengoni, Daniel Jiandong Shen, Zixin Li, Paulina Pui Yun Wong, Gibson Lam Dec 2025

System-Moderated Immersion: Modeling Presence, Agency, And Ai Interaction In Vr Learning, Paolo Mengoni, Daniel Jiandong Shen, Zixin Li, Paulina Pui Yun Wong, Gibson Lam

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Virtual Reality (VR) offers opportunities for interactive learning, yet how presence relates to efficacy depends on task design, system control, and learner characteristics. This study examined how presence, system task design (SYS), and learner traits—including baseline efficacy and GPT-based interaction— shape technology adoption (TAM) and technological efficacy (TE) in browser-based VR. Eighty students completed web-based VR scenarios, and data analyzed with structural equation and generalized additive models. The SEM model showed good fit (robust CFI = .95). Presence predicted adoption, which in turn predicted efficacy, but only when scaffolding was well calibrated. SYS, defined by task control and repetition, moderated …

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Correct To Connect: Exploring Ai Hallucination And Bias As Social Glue For Digital Placemaking Between Migrants And Locals, Peng-Kai Hung, Janet Yi-Ching Huang, Rung-Huei Liang, Stephan Wensveen Dec 2025

Correct To Connect: Exploring Ai Hallucination And Bias As Social Glue For Digital Placemaking Between Migrants And Locals, Peng-Kai Hung, Janet Yi-Ching Huang, Rung-Huei Liang, Stephan Wensveen

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AI hallucination and bias are commonly viewed as flaws, leading to a premature narrowing of their design space and an under-exploration of their potential to enrich community ties and meaning of place. Focusing on digital placemaking context, this research investigates how innocuous AI imperfections could foster interaction and connection between intercultural communities. We conducted workshops with Dutch locals and migrants who co-created and interacted with Generative AI applications that produced diverse content about places. Findings reveal that AI misinterpretations facilitated intercultural dialogue and connection by prompting shared correction, playful co- imagination, and memory exchange. Notably, biased outputs encouraged collective reflections …

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

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

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

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Designing An Integrated Mobile And Signage System To Support Creative Learning In University Makerspaces, Hirokazu Kawana, Ayako Inatsu, Yui Nagai Dec 2025

Designing An Integrated Mobile And Signage System To Support Creative Learning In University Makerspaces, Hirokazu Kawana, Ayako Inatsu, Yui Nagai

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This paper presents the design and implementation of an integrated system that combines a smartphone application and digital signage to support creative learning in university maker spaces. The system aims to enhance operational efficiency, accessibility, and sustained user engagement by offering intuitive equipment reservation, facility guidance, and visibility of production examples. Motivated by the challenges of managing digital fabrication facilities—such as inefficient booking systems and the lack of accessible knowledge-sharing tools—we developed a user-centered platform that responds to diverse user needs, from experienced makers to beginners. The mobile app enables users to reserve equipment and access FAQs, usage guides, and …

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Generative Ai In Studio-Based Design Education: Human–Ai Relationships, Collaboration And Assessment, Hyunyim Park Dec 2025

Generative Ai In Studio-Based Design Education: Human–Ai Relationships, Collaboration And Assessment, Hyunyim Park

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Rapid advances in generative AI (GenAI) have created both opportunities and challenges that have transformed the landscape for design education. While GenAI offers new ways to envision and explore entire design processes—from framing design challenges to generating design output—its influence on studio-based learning practices and environments remains under explored. Drawing on qualitative data, this study investigates how GenAI is transforming core practices in studio-based design education, focusing on relationships, collaboration, and assessment. The findings show that GenAI disrupts dialogic critiques, undermines creative agency, diffuses ethical responsibility, and renders learning processes increasingly opaque, thus challenging traditional pedagogical structures. In response, this …

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Exploring The Dynamic Path Of Shifting Customer Loyalty Across Nps Groups Driven By Experience And Value: The Case Of Pure Internet Banking, Qiu-Ze Wu, Yu-Ling Lien, Hsien-Hui Tang, Michael T. Lai Dec 2025

Exploring The Dynamic Path Of Shifting Customer Loyalty Across Nps Groups Driven By Experience And Value: The Case Of Pure Internet Banking, Qiu-Ze Wu, Yu-Ling Lien, Hsien-Hui Tang, Michael T. Lai

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In the highly competitive and homogeneous pure Internet banking sector, customer experience is pivotal for differentiation. Prior research remains limited to static analyses, failing to explain dynamic loyalty transitions. This study thus investigates how experience dimensions drive loyalty shifts in pure Internet banking and proposes segment-specific management strategies. Employing an explanatory sequential design (ESD) with LINE Bank (74.3% market share) as a case, we integrated quantitative structural equation modeling (SEM) of High-Medium, High-Low, and Medium-Low Net Promoter Score (NPS) groups (n = 370) with six in-depth interviews. Results reveal that functional value is the most stable loyalty driver across segments …

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Data-Informed Design In Multidisciplinary Collaboration: Empirical Findings And Directions For Generative Ai, Minhw Lee, Younjoon Lee Dec 2025

Data-Informed Design In Multidisciplinary Collaboration: Empirical Findings And Directions For Generative Ai, Minhw Lee, Younjoon Lee

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This study empirically investigates how data can strengthen multidisciplinary collaboration and explores the potential role of generative AI (GAI) as a complementary enabler. Eight teams, composed of designers and business professionals, participated in co-creation workshops where the availability of Big Data and Thick Data was systematically manipulated. The resulting ideas were evaluated across three dimensions: ‘Novelty’, ‘Usefulness’, and ‘Commercial Appeal’. Additionally, follow-up interviews were conducted to capture participants’ reflections on the collaborative idea generation process, utilizing the collected data. The findings show that teams with access to both Big Data and Thick Data produced qualitatively superior ideas compared to those …

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"We Are All Historically Constructed": Situating The Past In Designerly Practice, India Anderson, Skye Doherty, Ben Matthews Dec 2025

"We Are All Historically Constructed": Situating The Past In Designerly Practice, India Anderson, Skye Doherty, Ben Matthews

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This paper investigates how designers utilise the past as part of the design process which stands as an under explored facet of design practice. Drawing on in-depth interviews (n=11) with professionals from both design and memory institution contexts—galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM) that support design heritage in service of the public—we examine what aspects of the past designers engage with, including which pasts. Further, we identify under explored patterns in how the past is accessed, interpreted, and deployed as part of practice. Our thematic analysis of interviews surfaces three core findings: (1) history is used by designers as a …

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Boundary Conditions And Memory Taxonomy: Creating A Vr Space That Contains Memories, Yuanyuan Deng, Dezijian Zhou, Wanli Guo, Zihan Peng Dec 2025

Boundary Conditions And Memory Taxonomy: Creating A Vr Space That Contains Memories, Yuanyuan Deng, Dezijian Zhou, Wanli Guo, Zihan Peng

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Long-distance relationships often suffer from fragmented memories and emotional distance due to partners living apart. This paper explores the conceptual design of an online “Memory Space” for long-distance partners by integrating memory taxonomy and architectural boundary theory within a virtual reality context. Drawing on the art of memory and examples of physical memory-bearing spaces, the study examines how a virtual environment can contain and organize users’ personal memories to foster emotional connection across distance. Using a design inquiry approach, the paper conceptualizes a speculative VR “Memory Space” in which users can collectively store, share, and experience personal memories within a …

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

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

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

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