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Queer Cities. Designing Inclusive Public Spaces Through Participative And Social Innovative Actions And Practices., Valentina Ferreri Oct 2023

Queer Cities. Designing Inclusive Public Spaces Through Participative And Social Innovative Actions And Practices., Valentina Ferreri

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Public spaces have historically been designed to support and facilitate the traditional roles of the masculine gender, resulting in male-centric spaces that do not consider other genders or communities. This has created an unsafe and exclusionary environment for queer and trans individuals, who face widespread violence and discrimination in public spaces. While some top-down initiatives such as rainbow street crossings have aimed to increase visibility and reduce hate-crimes, they are not enough and are in dissonance with the true living conditions of queer and trans people. A possible solution is to adopt a bottom-up approach, involving local actors part of …

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Transforming Resilient Healthcare Systems: Mapping The Pathway Forward With Healthcare 4.0 Technologies, Valentina Marques Da Rosa, Flavio S. Fogliatto, Tarcísio A. Saurin, Guilherme L. Tortorella, Leandro M. Tonetto Oct 2023

Transforming Resilient Healthcare Systems: Mapping The Pathway Forward With Healthcare 4.0 Technologies, Valentina Marques Da Rosa, Flavio S. Fogliatto, Tarcísio A. Saurin, Guilherme L. Tortorella, Leandro M. Tonetto

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Traditional approaches to healthcare service design usually seek resilient healthcare relying on social interactions between care providers. The current growth in the adoption of digital technologies in healthcare systems, usually grouped under the acronym H4.0 (Healthcare 4.0), calls for the integration of Resilience Engineering (RE) principles and Information and Communications digital technologies in the design of healthcare services. This paper offers an expert-based mapping of how H4.0 technologies may impact four abilities that characterize resilient healthcare systems, namely: monitor, anticipate, respond, and learn. Based on our findings, we discuss how designers and healthcare managers should jointly consider RE and H4.0 …

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Collaborating With An Amazonian Tree: A Bio-Product Design Experiment With Ancestral References, Andrea Bandoni, Raul Cunca, Carla Paoliello, Gabriela Forman Oct 2023

Collaborating With An Amazonian Tree: A Bio-Product Design Experiment With Ancestral References, Andrea Bandoni, Raul Cunca, Carla Paoliello, Gabriela Forman

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In this article, we describe and discuss the findings from a design study aimed at producing objects with an Amazonian tree by employing a design technique based on collaboration with living organisms, adopting approaches to design that prioritizes respect for the environment, as well as shedding light on the potential of ancestral knowledge in shaping sustainable design practices. The Crescentia cujete species produces cuias, fruits that turn into domestic objects through an ancestral artisanal process that can be considered highly ecological from a design perspective. The study starts with a literature review in Biodesign, Biology, and Anthropology. Then, a mixed …

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Study On The Development Strategy Of Huishan Clay Figurine From The Perspective Of Urban Symbolism-Taking The Design Strategy Of Nanimomo Blind Box Series As An Example, Tiancheng Li, Bo Pang Oct 2023

Study On The Development Strategy Of Huishan Clay Figurine From The Perspective Of Urban Symbolism-Taking The Design Strategy Of Nanimomo Blind Box Series As An Example, Tiancheng Li, Bo Pang

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Huishan clay sculpture has existed for more than a century and is facing the same difficult development dilemma as many other intangible cultural heritages that are difficult to sustain. The reason behind this is the gap in understanding between its practitioners and modern design, which makes it difficult to integrate effectively into modern life. In this study, by analyzing the current state of Huishan Clay Figurines and corresponding revitalization measures, Analytic Hierarchy Process（AHP）was used to analyze the weight of the relevant factors affecting their development, and the Moscow Law framework was utilized to position the existing measures. It was concluded …

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Applying Generative Art To Cultural And Creative Product Design To Construct Human-Product Relationship, Dihui Chu, Fangzhou Dong, Wenyu Wu, Xuan Wang Oct 2023

Applying Generative Art To Cultural And Creative Product Design To Construct Human-Product Relationship, Dihui Chu, Fangzhou Dong, Wenyu Wu, Xuan Wang

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Tourism cultural and creative products aim to highlight a city’s image and cultural characteristics. With the development of design forms, designers pay attention to how to apply new methods to cultural and creative design. As a frontier research method, the application of generative art to cultural and creative design can broaden the boundary of design, enrich design style and explore more possible products. This article introduces a case of applying generative art and color theory to the design of tourism cultural and creative products, which shows a new idea of cultural and creative product design, retaining the impression of the …

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Exploring An Innovative Apprenticeship Model In Design Education : A Case Study In Transportation Design, Ya-Lin Chen, Min-Yuan Ma, Hsin-Chun Wang, Guan-Ting Shi Oct 2023

Exploring An Innovative Apprenticeship Model In Design Education : A Case Study In Transportation Design, Ya-Lin Chen, Min-Yuan Ma, Hsin-Chun Wang, Guan-Ting Shi

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Design education faces challenges due to rapid technological and societal changes. As we move towards modern professional education, important values such as guidance, experience sharing, and cultivating craftsmanship are being lost. This study proposes an innovative design apprenticeship model that combines traditional apprenticeship with modern education to improve quality and cultivate innovative designers with strong technical skills. The research methods include literature review and case application and analysis. Through literature review, key elements of traditional apprenticeship inheritance are integrated into the innovative design apprenticeship model, which is then applied and explored in teaching practice. This model emphasizes improving students' practical …

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From E-Waste To Jewellery: Creating Emotionally Durable Jewellery With The Metal Recovered From Electronic Waste, Kunning Ding Oct 2023

From E-Waste To Jewellery: Creating Emotionally Durable Jewellery With The Metal Recovered From Electronic Waste, Kunning Ding

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It is estimated that the electrical equipment discarded in 2021 weighs more than 57 million tonnes. Less than one-fifth of this electronic waste (e-waste) is recycled. Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) are an integral component of any electronic equipment, and this is a useful type of waste due to its high metal content of nearly 30%. This practice-based research aims to explore how to transform metals recovered from e-waste using a hydrometallurgy technique (that works with metals in solution) into wearable jewellery. There are two parts unfolded in this research, one is from a technical perspective, applying electroforming that works with …

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Investigating The Effectiveness Of Peripheral Vision In Reading Digital Speed Limit Information Displayed In Ar-Hud Technology, Shu-Hui Huang, Chun-Heng Ho Oct 2023

Investigating The Effectiveness Of Peripheral Vision In Reading Digital Speed Limit Information Displayed In Ar-Hud Technology, Shu-Hui Huang, Chun-Heng Ho

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This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of peripheral vision in reading digital speed limit information displayed in Augmented Reality Head-Up Display (AR-HUD) technology. In particular, the experiment investigated whether the larger display area and expanded access provided by AR technology in the HUD could improve the efficiency of peripheral vision in reading FHWA Series F font used in U.S. highway signs. Thirty participants aged 19 to 39 were recruited for a simulated driving video experiment. Stimulus numbers were set at the speed limit for urban roads and viewing angles of 20° left, 10° left, 10° right, 20° right, and …

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Research On User Needs For Gesture Interaction Of Foldable Smartphones: Comparison Between Current And Potential Users, Zhengyu Tan, Yating Su, Ningyi Dai, Xiang Gao, Le Du, Qi Chen Oct 2023

Research On User Needs For Gesture Interaction Of Foldable Smartphones: Comparison Between Current And Potential Users, Zhengyu Tan, Yating Su, Ningyi Dai, Xiang Gao, Le Du, Qi Chen

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The foldable smartphone is one of the key trends in personal mobile devices, and a topic worth investigating is the classification and structure of user needs of foldable smartphones. This study profoundly explores the user needs for gesture interaction of foldable smartphones by comparing current and potential users. The needs of 20 current users were obtained through the interview, and observational experiments were conducted to obtain the needs of 20 potential users. Following the principles of grounded theory, a theoretical model which includes 4 categories and 7 subcategories was generated from current users' needs. Also, a theoretical model which includes …

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Study On The Status Quo And Sustainable Renewal Strategies Of The Zhoutie Historic District In Wuxi, China, Ren Zhou, Weimin Guo Oct 2023

Study On The Status Quo And Sustainable Renewal Strategies Of The Zhoutie Historic District In Wuxi, China, Ren Zhou, Weimin Guo

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The renovation of old historical blocks is currently receiving much attention in China's urban construction and development, and how to protect the traditional texture and sustainable development has become a research issue. This article takes the historical block of Zhoutie in Wuxi, China as the research site. Through field research methods, the current situation of old historical blocks is studied from the outside to the inside, and three characteristics of old blocks are summarized: the first point is that the relationship between new and old buildings inside and outside the historical blocks is fragmented, and some groups are updated to …

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Unlocking The Experience Economy: Integrating Design For Experience Knowledge Into Fast Moving Consumer Goods (Fmcg) Product Innovation, Steffen Ristau, Pieter Desmet, Frido Smulders Oct 2023

Unlocking The Experience Economy: Integrating Design For Experience Knowledge Into Fast Moving Consumer Goods (Fmcg) Product Innovation, Steffen Ristau, Pieter Desmet, Frido Smulders

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This paper addresses the question how design for experience can be integrated into the product innovation practices of fast-moving consumer products, to increase impact and deliver additional (emotional) value to consumers. To achieve this, theories of the leading experts in the field have been reviewed, key principles of designing for experience have been identified and reflected on the product innovation practices as a case study on Henkel Consumer Brands, a global leading fast-moving consumer goods company. The key finding is that many small and diverse actions need be taken, which can be clustered in three themes: 1) actionable behavior, 2) …

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Confidence And Doubt In Doctoral Research: The Temptation Of Certainty, Ashley Hall, Michael Hohl Oct 2023

Confidence And Doubt In Doctoral Research: The Temptation Of Certainty, Ashley Hall, Michael Hohl

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Many aspects of doctoral supervision are well known in education from methods and methodology to research questions, philosophies and epistemologies. One core aspect that is touched upon less frequently yet is central to the lived experience of the researcher and that is essential for rigour and trust occupying a significant amount of cognitive effort is confidence and doubt. The use of confidence and doubt to drive research is a daily experience for the researcher yet the practice and challenges are infrequently addressed directly in doctoral environments. Confidence can be essential as a driver when researchers with strong convictions lack complete …

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How Smart Is The Italian Domestic Environment? A Quantitative Study, Annapaola Vacanti Oct 2023

How Smart Is The Italian Domestic Environment? A Quantitative Study, Annapaola Vacanti

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According to latest reports, the market for smart home products in Italy appears to be growing quicker than in other European countries. Continuous technological advances have lowered the price for entry products, allowing more families to acquire smart solutions. Meanwhile, after the pandemic situation of 2020, the importance of the domestic environment as a hybrid space where to conduct different activities that require smart and connected appliances has significantly grown. Ultimately, economic, and social instability has produced a higher awareness of energy consumption, bringing many users to question their lifestyle choices and look for smarter and greener solutions. The evolution …

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A Design-Driven Approach To Distributed Ledger Technologies For Small Farmers Communities: A Case Study In Portugal, Sabrina Scuri, Catarina Ribeiro, Valentina Nisi Oct 2023

A Design-Driven Approach To Distributed Ledger Technologies For Small Farmers Communities: A Case Study In Portugal, Sabrina Scuri, Catarina Ribeiro, Valentina Nisi

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Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) has the potential to transform the agri-food sector, empowering rural and underserved farming communities by enabling the creation of a more environmentally sustainable and socio-economically inclusive food system. Several PoC and pilot projects are running all over the world to test this specific use case. However, the success rate of these initiatives is still limited. A critical analysis of the state-of-the-art suggests as a possible explanation for the observed trend that the current research approach to DLT for agriculture is mostly technology-driven. This limits our ability to develop solutions that provide benefits to the communities they’re …

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Educating The Attention Of Museum Visitors Through Non-Verbal Art Mediation, Christian Sivertsen, Nikita Mathias, Anders Sundnes Løvlie Oct 2023

Educating The Attention Of Museum Visitors Through Non-Verbal Art Mediation, Christian Sivertsen, Nikita Mathias, Anders Sundnes Løvlie

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The use of technology in art museums is usually limited to communicating verbal information such as interpretive text and audio guides, or to facilitating social experiences. This paper presents a Research through Design study of an immersive room-scale installation in an art museum. The aim was to afford non-verbal art mediation and educate the attention of museum visitors to certain aspects of a series of paintings. The installation was based on recent art historical research and aimed to use this research to facilitate a new perspective on the artworks. The installation was created through a one-year-long iterative process that involved …

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Unleashing A Creative Explosion: Channeling Expert Strategy Into Service Design Heuristic Cards, Zihan Zhou, Renke He, Ying Hu, Yiming Bai, Xing Du, Qin Wang Oct 2023

Unleashing A Creative Explosion: Channeling Expert Strategy Into Service Design Heuristic Cards, Zihan Zhou, Renke He, Ying Hu, Yiming Bai, Xing Du, Qin Wang

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Cultivating creativity is the central problem of all design education, including service design education. Obtaining design knowledge is an effective method to improve students' creativity. Despite the availability of various service design tools, these tools tend to focus more on analyzing and describing services. It is still tricky for inexperienced service design novices to overcome design fixation and experience limitations and generate innovative design solutions. This study developed a novel service design tool, Service Design Heuristic Cards (SDHC), which assist novice designers in concept generation by conveying expert knowledge. The article provides a detailed description of the tool development process …

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Sustainable Design Strategy Of Chinese Old Town Community Based On Landscape Ontology：A Case Study Of Daojiao Community In Chongqing, Xingyu Chen, Hongtao Zhou, Xiang Liu Oct 2023

Sustainable Design Strategy Of Chinese Old Town Community Based On Landscape Ontology：A Case Study Of Daojiao Community In Chongqing, Xingyu Chen, Hongtao Zhou, Xiang Liu

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In the process of China's urbanization process, there is a serious separation between new city and old city, The current situation of the old community space urgently needs to be improved,with the increasingly complex development pattern, the community design research is more inclined to favor the abstract category dominated by relationship design, resulting in the disconnection between design and physical space.This study can be an ideal repair technique. By sorting out the evolution law of the community landscape ontology, a set of sustainable development ideas in line with the landscape environment of the old city community.This paper intends to apply …

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Features Of Chinese Design Research: An “Object-Paradigm” Interactive Relationship Perspective, Yuhao Jiang, Fangzhou Gu, Danhua Zhao Oct 2023

Features Of Chinese Design Research: An “Object-Paradigm” Interactive Relationship Perspective, Yuhao Jiang, Fangzhou Gu, Danhua Zhao

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How we conceive of design research has changed significantly. Scholars have explored this topic from the perspectives of the boundaries of the influence of the design profession and the shift of design paradigms. However, research on the evolution and features of design research in China has yet to make its mark on the international design research stage. Based on the National Social Science Foundation Art Project's promotion of Chinese design research, an "Object-Paradigm" analysis framework is constructed, revealing an interactive relationship between objects and paradigms of Chinese design research: a well-defined research paradigm focuses on a particular object, and specific …

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Inclusive Harmonies: Co-Creating Accessible Music Experiences With Deaf Or Blind Advisors Through Interdisciplinary Design Workshop, Yun Wang, Yuyao Zhang, Junrong Zhang, Zijin Li Oct 2023

Inclusive Harmonies: Co-Creating Accessible Music Experiences With Deaf Or Blind Advisors Through Interdisciplinary Design Workshop, Yun Wang, Yuyao Zhang, Junrong Zhang, Zijin Li

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Music activities have been shown to enhance the self-development and social participation of individuals with disabilities, yet current assistive technologies and devices are unable to provide them with a satisfactory music experience. This paper presents a design workshop aimed at exploring innovative ways for blind or deaf people to better perceive, perform and create music, as well as a workshop approach to design innovative music installations through co-creation activities. The three-week workshop included an ice-breaking and team-building week, an ideation and co-creation week, and a final week for prototyping, testing, and showcasing. Multidisciplinary teams were formed and a group of …

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Research On Urban Brownfield Landscape Design From The Perspective Of Environmental Interaction - Taking The Former Site Of Jiangnan Cement Factory As An Example, Hanbin Shen, Mingjie Liang Oct 2023

Research On Urban Brownfield Landscape Design From The Perspective Of Environmental Interaction - Taking The Former Site Of Jiangnan Cement Factory As An Example, Hanbin Shen, Mingjie Liang

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Urban brownfield sites occupy a large amount of land and resources in cities and seriously affect the overall appearance of the city, so how to adapt them to people's production and life better has become a hot research topic at this stage, and landscape design for such environments is a very important part of it. The design concept and new technology of urban brownfield landscape are constantly evolving, and its future development trend cannot only rely on the inherent way to achieve, but also need the support of modern technology. This paper takes the former site of Jiangnan Cement Factory …

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Themes For An Airport Hub In The Transition Towards A Multimodal Transport Hub – An Embedded Researcher’S Perspective, Aniek Toet, Jasper Van Kuijk, Klaas Boersma, Sicco Santema Oct 2023

Themes For An Airport Hub In The Transition Towards A Multimodal Transport Hub – An Embedded Researcher’S Perspective, Aniek Toet, Jasper Van Kuijk, Klaas Boersma, Sicco Santema

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Future mobility systems will likely incorporate more multimodal journeys. These multimodal journeys integrate multiple modes of transport, and their higher future prevalence highlights the importance of paying attention to the modality transfers within journeys. To carefully facilitate these transfers, we advocate the creation of passenger-oriented Multimodal Transport Hubs (MTHs), which integrate both infrastructure and services of multiple travel modalities to ensure high-quality transfers between the different modes of transport. This study is part of a research project investigating how Airport Hubs can transform into MTHs and aims to learn in practice how the case study FlyHub deals with new travel …

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Utilizing Patent Data For Enhanced Design Creativity And Reduced Fixation In Product Design, Ranzhi Wei, Eric Heng Gu, Cehao Yu Oct 2023

Utilizing Patent Data For Enhanced Design Creativity And Reduced Fixation In Product Design, Ranzhi Wei, Eric Heng Gu, Cehao Yu

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Background: During the early stages of product design, designers often encounter knowledge-based and conceptual fixation, which can limit their capacity to address design problems and solutions innovatively. To surmount this challenge, designers typically rely on visual graphics for inspiration rather than textual forms. A patent data tool is intended to provide designers with graphical presentations of keywords extracted from millions of patent documents, potentially reducing fixation. However, limited studies have been conducted on the effectiveness of this tool and its influence on design creativity and fixation. This study aims to explore how designers interact with the patent data tool and …

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Immersive Reading In Vr, Nikola Kunzova Oct 2023

Immersive Reading In Vr, Nikola Kunzova

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This research explores different approaches for creating immersive experiences for reading works of fiction in VR, such as novels and short stories. Its goal is to combine the qualities of traditional reading and use the full potential of VR as an immersive medium to enhance the reading of textual narratives. Many technological and conceptual obstacles need to be solved to experience a perfectly balanced reading of fiction in VR. A possible solution to these challenges can be found in answering questions about immersion, interpretation, visualisation, and interaction regarding merging the media of books and VR. In the research for the …

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Reimagining Design Education: Renewal And Transformation, Elena Caratti, Silvia Ferraris, Silke Lange, Yingchun Zang Oct 2023

Reimagining Design Education: Renewal And Transformation, Elena Caratti, Silvia Ferraris, Silke Lange, Yingchun Zang

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We live in a time when change is happening globally to an unprecedented extent. The awareness of the phenomena underpins the current discourse and research activities in design and design education. Many design educators understand the demand for change and are looking for new strategies to respond to it. The challenge is how to transform and renew design disciplines and its learning processes so that the next generation of designers can actively and responsibly promote change. Some educators are already focusing on the dimensions of change, namely, contemporary issues such as climate change and sustainable goals. Others are reflecting on …

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Generative Ai In Creative Design Processes: A Dive Into Possible Cognitive Biases, Andreea-Roxana Popescu, Alice Schut Oct 2023

Generative Ai In Creative Design Processes: A Dive Into Possible Cognitive Biases, Andreea-Roxana Popescu, Alice Schut

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In this paper, we report on the initial results of an explorative study that aims to investigate the occurrence of cognitive biases when designers use generative AI in the ideation phase of a creative design process. When observing current AI models utilised as creative design tools, potential negative impacts on creativity can be identified, namely deepening already existing cognitive biases but also introducing new ones that might not have been present before. Within our study, we analysed the emergence of several cognitive biases and the possible appearance of a negative synergy when designers use generative AI tools in a creative …

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Exploring A Framework In Designing Smart Circular Ecosystems In The Waterborne Passenger Mobility, Laura Pirrone, Andrea Ratti, Arianna Bionda Oct 2023

Exploring A Framework In Designing Smart Circular Ecosystems In The Waterborne Passenger Mobility, Laura Pirrone, Andrea Ratti, Arianna Bionda

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The emergence of climate change is affecting society, economy, and businesses around the world. To tackle this issue, the European Commission has introduced a series of legislative measures aimed at achieving climate neutrality in the EU by 2050. The whole transport sector will have to make a significant endeavor to achieve the goal. In recent years, waterborne public transport services have become an integral component of urban landscapes in numerous cities worldwide. Waterborne mobility can constitute a sustainable alternative in terms of energy consumption, noise, and pollution emissions. It reduces traffic congestion both on roads and on the railroad, supporting …

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E-Motioning: Exploring The Effects Of Emotional Generative Visuals On Creativity And Connectedness During Videoconferencing, Tianqin Lu, Jun Hu Oct 2023

E-Motioning: Exploring The Effects Of Emotional Generative Visuals On Creativity And Connectedness During Videoconferencing, Tianqin Lu, Jun Hu

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Videoconferencing has become an essential part of business life, and the trend of remote collaboration is set to continue in the future. However, research has shown that the lack of social cues in videoconferencing negatively impacts human social connectedness and hinders the production of creative ideas. Therefore, E-Motioning has been proposed as a system that generates geometrical-based visuals according to users’ real-time emotions, and these visuals are used, as backgrounds for videoconferencing. An experiment was conducted with twenty-four participants to examine the effects of E-Motioning on creativity and connectedness in Microsoft Teams compared to a control condition that uses the …

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Office Space Design Based On Kano Model, Ahp, Qfd Methods, Yilan Jin Oct 2023

Office Space Design Based On Kano Model, Ahp, Qfd Methods, Yilan Jin

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As a frequent scene in the daily life of contemporary people, the design approach of office space has always been of great concern. Based on the above background, a user-driven approach to office space design is proposed to address the need for more distinction between different careers and the phenomenon of homogeneity and pattern in office space design nowadays. The Kano model, AHP, and QFD Methods are integrated into the office space design. Firstly, the users were targeted towards designers, and fourteen user requirements were obtained through research and classified into attributes using Kano; Secondly, AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) was …

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Investigation Of Creativity And Experiential Learning Composition In Design Teams, Yu-Chen Chen, Yu Tang, Hsi-Jen Chen Oct 2023

Investigation Of Creativity And Experiential Learning Composition In Design Teams, Yu-Chen Chen, Yu Tang, Hsi-Jen Chen

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The study aimed to examine the relationship between creativity and Experiential learning composition in design teams. The Experiential learning composition comprised two parts: Learning process composition, including team grasping experience and team transforming experience (which was the mean of both experiences for the team), and the Learning styles composition, including team Diverging, team Assimilating, team Converging, and team Accommodating (which was the percentage of each Learning style for the team). The investigation involved 20 design teams, consisting of a total of 53 Industrial Design students ranging from juniors to seniors. Participants completed the Learning Style Inventory-version 3.1, and experts evaluated …

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Living Entanglement: Toward An Entangled Design Nexus, Clee Zhuo Wang, Laurent Laurent Gutierrez Oct 2023

Living Entanglement: Toward An Entangled Design Nexus, Clee Zhuo Wang, Laurent Laurent Gutierrez

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Human-nature encounters more and more take forms of conflict, struggle, resistance and denial. Beneath the surface question of “how to survive”, these encounters reveal “entanglement” as the fundamental condition of the world. This new world view, supported by systems thinking and posthumanism, radicalizes the anthropocentric reductionistic belief. The shift informs a reposition of design from a method to produce (techne) to an invitation to co-becoming (phronesis). This article starts with a cross-disciplinary literature review to elaborate the concept of “entanglement” in three levels: relationality, co-becoming and blurred subject / object division. Then, the field work of an ecoliteracy program (“The …

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