Research on multimodal interaction system based on cognitive style in virtual historical and cultural scenes
Available online 2 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...
XpendFab: 3D Printing Expendable Mechanisms for Functional Breakage, Splitting and Disassembly
Available online 2 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 Medical Co-Design in the AI Era: A Scoping Review
Available online 29 November 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...
Exploring Risky Events and Driver Responses in Automated Driving: Insights from Real-world Videos
Available online 26 November 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...
IEDS in Practice: A Comparative Study of an Intelli-Embodied Design Space Combining AR and GAI for Conceptual Design
Available online 25 November 2025
Conceptual design is an important stage in product development. In conceptual design, the design space that designers face and the design materials they utilize affect their perception and creation....
Designing interactive pneumatic interfaces for enhanced movie responses
September 2025
Movies, as a comprehensive art form, have traditionally focused on visual and auditory elements, with most advancements aimed at enhancing resolution and sound quality. However, innovative technologies...
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...
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...
Trailblazing specific generative models (SGMs) for early-stage engineering design concepts
September 2025
Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have the potential to revolutionise engineering design practices. LLM-powered tools such as ChatGPT and DeepSeek have shown significant promise in...
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...
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...
Painting++: Human–computer collaborative painting in VR with multisensory interaction
June 2025
Extensive human–computer collaborative painting systems have been explored to assist people in ideating and creating the content of paintings. Recently, the popularity of virtual reality (VR) has opened...
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...
Design of prompt language in navigation systems: an empirical study of intelligent vehicle
June 2025
One critical aspect when people interact with the intelligent system is the language that it uses in messaging, but little is known about what type of information should be imparted and how people will...
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,...
Inaugural Editorial
March 2025
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...
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...
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....
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....
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...