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The success of an autonomous driving system largely depends on gaining the trust of its users and meeting their expectations for comfortable rides. However, the driver's expectation differs because they have different driving styles, which also vary in conditions. To gain a better understanding of driving styles, a study was conducted using the Multidimensional Driving Styles Inventory (MDSI) to investigate regional differences between Chinese and UK drivers, and the impact of passengers on driving behaviour. The study involved two groups of drivers (n ​= ​215 from China and n ​= ​240 from the UK) who completed a set of empirically validated questionnaires. The results showed that Chinese drivers exhibited higher levels of reckless, angry, and anxious driving styles than UK drivers. Moreover, driving with family members or friends led to fewer instances of reckless, anxious, and angry driving than driving alone. Family passengers were found to have a greater impact on driver responsibility than friend passengers, reducing the likelihood of maladaptive driving style.

China's traditional hand-knitting process resources are quite rich, the hand-knitting process resources are missing with the worrying of current situation because of various reasons. To return the weaving process to the stage of life and improve the lifestyle of modern people, we explore the inheritance and innovative positioning of the traditional weaving process in modern life from the starting point of traditional handicraft weaving. By taking the ‘Flat barrel cage’ as an example to study and analyze its material composition, shape structure, compilation method, etc., as well as the interpretation of the creation concept and the drawing of the genetic map, the concept of creation transmitted through the traditional hand-woven process is obtained for modern design. The deeper artistic aesthetic value, the gene map can well integrate traditional weaving craftsmanship into modern craftsmanship, so that it can better innovate and inherit.

Introspective (or first-person) methods are carving out their niche in experience design research. Relevant epistemological conversations in recent years have led experience design researchers to appreciate the value of “researcher as subject” in understanding nuanced, rich, felt human experiences mediated by designs. However, there is still a clear need for more detailed guidance on how to employ introspective methods for experience design research. This existing gap in practical application often leads to inconsistent or inconsiderate use, especially among design researchers new to these methods. To address this, this paper explores various ways design researchers can collect introspective data. We conducted a systematic review of 118 articles, each employing or developing introspective methods in some form, published by reputable design research venues from 2012 to 2022. Our analysis offers a comprehensive and organized overview of six categories of introspective data collection techniques and the supportive tools for each. Additionally, we reflect on the current use of introspective methods in experience design research and propose five recommendations for future methodological development. We aspire for this paper to serve as a timely, go-to guide for introspective design researchers, and to promote a more refined and thoughtful application of introspective methods in our field.

The habit of cooking can incorporate new values and practices over time, mirroring changes in society as a whole. Besides providing basic physiological needs, cooking is essential in constituting individual and collective relationships and identities. However, unsustainable cooking behaviors can adversely affect water resources, energy consumption, and food waste ultimately, resulting in adverse effects on climate change due to greenhouse gas emissions. In this scenario, Design for Sustainable Behavior (DfSB) can be a valuable approach to direct innovation on products and services associated with cooking, since it focuses on supporting solutions aimed to influence behaviors, with a focus on the usage phase. The present study investigates this issue, with a goal of establishing parameters guided by Design for Sustainable Behavior strategies to assist designers in developing innovative household appliances that effectively promote them. Since the research involves the development of an artifact, the method adopted was Design Science Research integrated with Systematic Literature Review, Survey and collaborative workshops with professionals from the sector. The results point to a significant amount of opportunities for innovation based on the principles and strategies of Design for Sustainable Behavior in the development of cooking appliances.

The maintenance of vehicle-mounted radar antenna (VMRA) is a typical overhead work by manual handling, where exertions, awkward postures and approaching the ends of range of motion are often necessitated. When performing the maintenance tasks, workers are likely to be exposed to work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs), which may generate impingement, rotator cuff injury, tendonitis, and localized muscle fatigue. To reduce the occurrence probability of WMSDs and provide effective suggestions for workers in the maintenance of VMRA, digital human modelling (DHM) is employed to evaluate, interpret, and visualize the negative impacts resulting from improper working posture. Based on task simulation builder (TSB), several methods are employed and integrated for ergonomics assessment of the maintenance of VMRA, including metabolic energy expenditure (MEE) rate, comfortability of upper limb joints, working posture analysis with Ovako working posture analysis system (OWAS), and working risk analysis with rapid upper limb assessment (RULA). Ergonomics assessment results are as follows: (1) screwing out bolts results in the most total metabolic cost; (2) disassembly sequence 4 ​→ ​3 → 2 ​→ ​1 contributes to the highest comfortability of upper limb joints; (3) the discomfort rating of working posture is high, and upper arm and neck face the greatest risk of exposure in the maintenance of VMRA.

The relationship between information organization and innovation behavior is an important area of study, yet research on the behavior of designers in this regard is underexplored. This study experimentally compared the effects of two forms of inspirational information organization, single-organization (using folders only) and multi-organization (folders plus tags), on designers’ design creativity in the conceptual design stage. The main findings are: (1) The use of tags in the multi-organization form facilitates a more in-depth and involved processing of inspiration information, and significantly improves the effort score. In addition, it reduces the mental and temporal demands in the retrieval process and does not add too much workload to the subjects. (2) Information organization methods have different impacts on creativity. The results show that by using a multi-organization method, the novelty of design solutions can be improved. This study verifies the positive impact of multiple organizations as an inspirational information structuring method on design creativity, which provides a directional reference for the development activities of information organization tools for designers.

This study reports on the development of a user-adjustable head support device for a head-only MRI scanner with a seated patient. To avoid motion artifacts in head MRI, patients must move <1 ​mm during a typical 120 ​s image acquisition, often necessitating head-support devices. Previous studies have investigated user-adjustable head support for MRI when lying supine and patient-specific head support for seated MEG. A formative evaluation process was used with 22 participants in total across three phases: (1) determination of head support points whilst seated; (2) testing a simple inflatable bladder to provide head support; (3) evaluation of two fully resolved inflatable prototypes. Compared to an unsupported head, the final inflatable designs reduce positional diffusivity and drift over 120 ​s intervals by a factor of 2. The final two prototypes give acceptable user experience but require further refinement to fully minimise head movement. This research is applicable for any seated diagnostic imaging application where head motion must be minimized.

This paper introduces a five-day intensive course, conducted over five years from 2018 to 2022, aimed at teaching emotion-driven design (EDD) to graduate students with diverse disciplinary backgrounds at Beijing Normal University. EDD is the practice of designing products or services that are informed by user or consumer emotions and/or aim to elicit predetermined emotions. The course was designed to teach students about human emotions from a scientific perspective and to provide hands-on experience in creative processes. To structure the course, seven principles derived from emotion-related design knowledge were employed, which guided the development of learning activities and course materials. The paper also includes student evaluations and reflections on the strengths and weaknesses of the course design. It intends to serve as a resource for design educators who wish to teach the practical application of emotion psychology to students with limited prior expertise.

The paper aims at defining a virtue-based design ethics. The difficulties of understanding design ethics as being the result of an impalpable ethical directive are explored. As such, ethical realism is recognized as the standpoint from which rationales are developed to propose the concept of an overarching design ethics called ethical design intelligence. This concept is presented as an antidote to the pervasive postmodern, nihilistic, and mercantile design ideology that has prevailed in recent decades. Hence the necessity to show how ethical issues designers face within the context of design thinking and practice are intrinsically not only complex but multifocal; they stem from several grounds that define the rights and obligations of a diversity of affected agents. Virtue is presented as a suitable ethical approach to engaging such a multifocal ethical phenomenon in design thinking and practice at all levels of design deliberation.

Emotions affect one's well-being and mental health, and each person has different personality traits, which influence the emotion regulation process. Better understanding of the relationships between the Big Five personality traits and emotion regulation (ER) strategies are a prerequisite for designing feasible and effective emotion regulation tools from designer's point of view. Thus, this study first conducts a narrative review using a systematic search strategy to gain an understanding of the emotion regulation strategies related to Big Five personality traits for informing the designers in their ER tool design. Second, based on the understanding, it proposes an emotion regulation tool design framework with personality traits for guiding designers/design researchers to develop ER tools. Third, an ER tool is designed and prototyped based on the framework, then it is used in a case study to qualitatively evaluate the framework's usefulness. It is concluded that the framework can provide good guidelines for designers/design researchers to follow when developing ER tools, and in this study the resultant ER tool can better the end-users’ engagement in the ER process.