Topics

Intelligent Design Semantics and Narratives: This topic explores how design conveys deep meanings and narratives, and how design creates resonance and meaning in cultural and social contexts. Topics include, but are not limited to, the application of semiotics, metaphors, and narrative theories in design.

Intelligent Design Creativity and Evaluation: This area focuses on the processes and methods of design creativity, as well as how to evaluate and quantify the effects and value of creative design. It includes design thinking, innovation methodologies, and mechanisms for assessing creative solutions.

Intelligent Design Cognition and Symbols: This theme investigates how design elements influence and guide users' cognitive processes and perceptions, including the roles of visual, auditory, and tactile symbols in design, and how they affect users’ understanding and emotional responses.

Intelligent Design Technology and Craftsmanship: This topic covers the latest design technologies and craftsmanship and how they drive design innovation and application. It includes the practice of digital manufacturing, 3D printing, and other advanced manufacturing technologies in design.

Intelligent Design Human Factors and Engineering: This theme studies how design can better meet users’ physical and psychological needs, including human-computer interaction, user experience design, and usability assessments.

Design Intelligence and Interaction: This area explores how artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things (IoT), and other intelligent technologies interact with design, creating new user experiences and interaction models, and how these technologies impact the design process and outcomes.

Intelligent Design Ecology and Sustainability: This topic focuses on how design can promote environmental sustainability, including the roles of circular design and green materials in advancing sustainability goals.

Design Optimization and Ergonomics: This theme examines how design can optimize the performance and efficiency of products and services, including process optimization, energy and resource efficiency, and the application of design in enhancing productivity and ergonomics.