CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Design is a fundamentally important topic in disciplines ranging from the more commonly associated fields of engineering, industrial design, information technology and architecture, to emerging areas in the social sciences, life sciences and business. One of the foundations for change in our society comes from designing. Its genesis is the notion that the world around us either is unsuited to our needs or can be improved. The need for designing is driven by a society's view that it can improve or add value to human existence well beyond simple subsistence. As a consequence of designing, the world that we inhabit is increasingly a designed rather than a naturally occurring one. In that sense it is an "artificial" world. Designing is a fundamental precursor to manufacturing, fabrication, construction, virtualization or implementation. Design research aims to develop an understanding of designing and to produce models of designing that can be used to aid designing and design education.
Design research can be carried out in at least four ways.
In the first view it can be largely an empirical endeavor in which experiments are designed and executed in order to test some hypothesis about some design phenomenon or design behavior. This is the approach adopted in cognitive science, neuroscience and physiology. The results of such research can form the basis of a computational model.
A second view is that design research can be carried out by positing axioms and then deriving consequences from them. If the axioms can be mapped onto design situations then the consequences should follow. This is the approach adopted in mathematics and logic and forms the basis of a small but powerful area in design research.
A third view is that design research can be carried out by constructing computational models of design processes and then examining the behaviors of the resulting computational systems.
A fourth view is that Large Language Models and their GPTs can be used to generate designs in both natural language and graphical representations.
This conference series provides an international forum for the presentation and discussion of state-of-the-art and cutting edge research and developments in design computing, design cognition and design neurocognition.
Attendees are invited to participate in the conference in the following ways:
Submit a full-length paper on completed research relating to design computing, cognition. or neurocognition
Submit a late breaking research short paper, these will be reviewed and included in the published proceedings
Submit a poster describing ongoing research; there will be time for oral presentations of posters.
Submit a proposal for a half-day workshop on a topic related to design computing, cognition or neurocognition.
Researchers from all fields employing artificial intelligence, computation, cognition and/or neurocognition in design are invited to participate.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Agents in design
Big Data in design
Biologically-inspired design
ChatGPT in design
Collaborative design
Computational social science applied to design
Creative design
Deep learning in design
Design cognition
Design neurocognition
Design theory
Foundation models (FM) in design
Generative AI and design
GPTs and design
Large language models (LLM) and design
Physiology of designing
Situated computing in design
Visual and spatial reasoning in design