Conceptual design is the foundational stage of a design process that translates ill-defined
design problems into low-fidelity design concepts and prototypes through design search …

Eliciting informative user opinions from online reviews is a key success factor for innovative
product design and development. The unstructured, noisy, and verbose nature of user …

Digital fabrication practice such as 3D printing has increasingly moved into home and
hobbyist environments. Beyond running machines, practitioners in these settings undertake …

3D-printers enable end-users to design and fabricate unique physical artifacts but maintain
an increased entry barrier and friction. End users must design tangible artifacts through …

Creative practitioners rely on sampling to understand, explore, and construct problems; or
gather resources for later use. Despite practitioners' ability to experience immersive …

New immersive 3D design tools enable the creation of spatial design recordings, capturing
collaborative design activities. By reviewing captured spatial design sessions, which include …

Open-source is a decentralized and collaborative method of development that encourages
open contribution from an extensive and undefined network of individuals. Although …

In product conceptual design, designers utilize multiple design representations to iteratively
ideate, externalize, and refine concepts. Mixed representations, defined as the simultaneous …

Extended Reality (XR) allows in-situ previewing of designs to be manufactured through
Personal Fabrication (PF). These in-situ interactions exhibit advantages for PF, like …

Hybrid board games (HBGs) augment their analog origins digitally (eg, through apps) and
are an increasingly popular pastime activity. Continuous world and character development …