Examining the impact of large language models on design: Functions, strengths, limitations, and roles
June 2025
Large Language Models (LLMs) are advancing design activities with human-like generative capabilities and context awareness, holding more significant potential compared to the previous discriminative...
Caring for the system that cares for me: An autoethnography of designing sustained memory with a stateless conversational AI
June 2026
•A six-month autoethnography of user-built memory infrastructure for a stateless LLM.•Distinguishes relay-based continuity from the profile-based memory dominant in practice.•Names three paradoxes of...
Motion design in mobile user interface: A review from theory to practice
June 2026
Motion design has become a crucial component of human-computer interaction (HCI), bridging the gap between interface aesthetics and functional usability. This paper provides a comprehensive review of...
Towards human-centered interaction with UAV swarms: Framework, system design, and user study
September 2025
As unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms gain traction in military, logistics, and emergency response scenarios, the demand for “one-to-many” UAV swarm controlling continues to grow, positioning human–swarm...
Design and expert validation of an AI change management process (AI-CMP) assessment for AI-enabled medical devices: Towards agentic AI change management with human oversight
Available online 30 August 2026
•Introduces a validated AI Change Management Process (AI‑CMP) framework to govern iterative AI lifecycle changes in safety‑critical medical devices.•Demonstrates how design research can translate complex...
Attention: What prevents young adults from speaking up against cyberbullying in an LLM-powered social media simulation
June 2026
•LLM simulations train bystanders’ social skills to speak up against cyberbullying.•We observed 34 YAs practicing public intervention in a multi-agent LLM simulation•Attention shifts (inattention, self,...
A human-AI collaborative product conceptual design method driven by LLMs and knowledge graphs for design knowledge reasoning
Available online 6 August 2026
Product conceptual design is a critical stage in product development, where user requirements, design knowledge, functional reasoning, and structural solution generation need to be integrated into a...
Leveraging agentic AI in human-computer co-creation: Cognitive barriers, trust dynamics, and the directive-delegation spectrum
Available online 25 August 2026
•Documents the agentic AI delegation ceiling: only 0–20% of capable tasks delegated.•Synthesizes four cognitive and trust mechanisms proposed to produce the ceiling.•Proposes the Directive-Delegation...
Visual style transfer for cultural heritage: A comprehensive review of techniques and applications
June 2025
Visual style transfer (VST) is a significant research direction in artificial intelligence. Initially applied in the art industry, it has now been widely adopted across various fields such as painting,...
Creative combinational design through generative AI in different dimensional representations: An exploration
March 2025
Although generative AI models are increasingly integrated into creative work, there is limited evidence on how dimensional representations of generative AI—text, image, and 3D—impact the creative process....
Comprehending possible manifestations and design aspects of embodied intelligence in next-generation cyber-physical systems
Available online 6 August 2026
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the conceptual, architectural, and methodological foundations of cyber-physical systems (CPSs) featuring sensorimotor control. While...
A resource-efficient framework for cultural alignment in large language models (LLMs): The Chinese context
March 2026
•Proposed a cost-effective Human-AI cultural alignment framework to enhance LLMs' understanding of Chinese cultural values and conversational logic.•Introduced a resource-efficient fine-tuning approach...
Exploring medical co-design in the AI era: A scoping review
December 2025
This study explores the current development and findings of medical co-design (MCD) in the era of artificial intelligence (AI). As design objects evolve from products addressing single-function needs...
Predicting perceptual readability of degraded visual markings using pretrained visual representations
June 2026
Human-perceived readability is a critical criterion for evaluating corroded text markings in long-term material environments, yet it is not always equivalent to optical character recognition (OCR)-based...
A natural behavior planner for multi-personal human-robot interaction within the simulated environment
March 2026
In recent years, diffusion models have made remarkable success in generating realistic human motions. However, existing robot pose-learning approaches are largely focused on single-task and one-to-one...
Adaptive shopping malls: Probabilistic spatial layouts with graph neural networks
March 2025
We propose an adaptive method for optimizing shopping mall layouts via graph neural networks (GNNs). Traditional architectural datasets, often presented as floor plans rather than graphs, explore the...
TRACE: An embodied paper-based human–AI co-doodling ecosystem with authorship traces
Available online 6 August 2026
•Developed a paper-based human–AI co-doodling prototype for ideation.•Physical buttons and plotting keep AI interaction grounded in sketching.•Eight design educators evaluated usability, learning value,...
Engineering design collaborative workflows for research software engineering through a multi-agent framework
Available online 27 August 2026
During the translation of research outcomes into practice, domain-specific software services constitute an important enabler, linking scientific knowledge to industrial applications. However, in research...
Doodle your 3D with materials: Creating 3D model with relightable appearance from single freehand sketches and text guidance
March 2026
The rapid growth of augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR) has driven demand for efficient 3D content creation. Traditional CAD modeling remains time-consuming and difficult for beginners, while...
Bridging cultural gaps in product design: A cross-cultural supervisor approach using large language model
March 2025
Cross-cultural design in the globalized marketplace faces the challenges of linguistic, geographical, and cultural complexity, which limits designers’ ability to create good cross-cultural product designs....
Design for intelligent interaction CAE software: a hybrid recommendation-based approach to improve simulation workflow efficiency
September 2025
Engineering simulation software, as a core tool in computer-aided engineering (CAE), plays a critical role in supporting industrial design and computational analysis. However, the complexity of its...
Context-aware human motion generation: A comprehensive survey
March 2025
•Comprehensive Literature Review: This paper offers an extensive and systematic review of existing research on context-aware human motion generation, covering key components such as motion representation...
Stability without sensitivity: evaluative description and directional judgment in vision–language models
June 2026
•High-fidelity iteration bottleneckNear-identical variants demand priority-setting to preserve design intent and commit to a refinement direction.•Repeated paired evaluation protocolWe introduce a repeated...
Research on multimodal interaction system based on cognitive style in virtual historical and cultural scenes
December 2025
Virtual reality (VR) technology holds vast prospects, particularly in the domain of historical and cultural heritage. Studies have shown efficiency differences in knowledge acquisition among users with...
