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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Combine BP neural network with gradient descent algorithm to establish a method for predicting corrective force in scoliosis orthosis design
March 2026
Currently, orthotic design relies heavily on surgeons’ experience, lacking consistency. We integrated artificial intelligence (AI), healthcare, and interaction design to develop a neural network model...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Intuitive interaction flow: A dual-loop human‒machine collaboration task allocation model and an experimental study
March 2025
This study investigates the issue of task allocation in human‒machine collaboration (HMC). By integrating philosophical insights and cognitive science, it clearly defines two typical modes of human...
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....
Exploring user perception in mobile shopping: A comparison between augmented reality and virtual reality
September 2025
•We compare augmented reality technology and virtual reality technology about their effects on customers’ perceptions and responses in the context of mobile shopping.•A new theoretical model is proposed...
XpendFab: 3D printing expendable mechanisms for functional breakage, splitting, and disassembly
December 2025
•We program 3D-printed expendable mechanisms for one-time functions.•Three fragile patterns and five force-based interaction primitives.•A design tool embeds structures and predicts required breaking...
Exploring risky events and driver responses in automated driving: Insights from real-world videos
December 2025
•Analysis of risky events which are under-explored and non-fatal precursors to severe incidents.•Two-thirds of drivers failed to recognize risky situations before risky events occurred.•Crowdsourcing...
Research on human-machine collaborative innovation methods in design education inspired by the learning mechanism of generative adversarial networks
June 2025
This study explores dual innovations in human–computer collaborative design education methods and learning mechanisms, based on generative adversarial network (GAN) technology and its underlying learning...
DeformModeling: Intuitively tangible 3D modeling via multiform and flexible self-shape-sensing devices
March 2026
•DeformModeling enables intuitive creation of complex 3D models via deformable devices.•A flexible IMU-based self-shape-sensing network achieves real-time deformation capture.•A rapid design pipeline...
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...
