Exploring challenges and opportunities to support designers in learning to co-create with AI-based manufacturing design tools

F Gmeiner, H Yang, L Yao, K Holstein… - Proceedings of the 2023 …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
AI-based design tools are proliferating in professional software to assist engineering and
industrial designers in complex manufacturing and design tasks. These tools take on more …

Generative design by reinforcement learning: enhancing the diversity of topology optimization designs

S Jang, S Yoo, N Kang - Computer-Aided Design, 2022 - Elsevier
Generative design refers to computational design methods that can automatically conduct
design exploration under constraints defined by designers. Among many approaches …

Inksight: Leveraging sketch interaction for documenting chart findings in computational notebooks

Y Lin, H Li, L Yang, A Wu, H Qu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Computational notebooks have become increasingly popular for exploratory data analysis
due to their ability to support data exploration and explanation within a single document …

A-line: 4D printing morphing linear composite structures

G Wang, Y Tao, OB Capunaman, H Yang… - Proceedings of the 2019 …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
This paper presents A-line, a 4D printing system for designing and fabricating morphing
three-dimensional shapes out of simple linear elements. In addition to the commonly known …

ThermalRouter: Enabling Users to Design Thermally-Sound Devices

A Mazursky, B Li, SY Teng, D Shifrina… - Proceedings of the 36th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Users often 3D model enclosures that interact with significant heat sources, such as
electronics or appliances that generate heat (eg, CPU, motor, lamps, etc.). While parts made …

Investigating positive and negative qualities of human-in-the-loop optimization for designing interaction techniques

L Chan, YC Liao, GB Mo, JJ Dudley… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Designers reportedly struggle with design optimization tasks where they are asked to find a
combination of design parameters that maximizes a given set of objectives. In HCI, design …

Evaluation of topology optimization and generative design tools as support for conceptual design

D Vlah, R Žavbi, N Vukašinović - Proceedings of the design society …, 2020 - cambridge.org
Nowadays, a large number of different tools that support early phases of design are
available to engineers. In the past decade a specialized set of CAD-based tools were …

What we can learn from visual artists about software development

J Li, S Hashim, J Jacobs - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
This paper explores software's role in visual art production by examining how artists use and
develop software. We conducted interviews with professional artists who were collaborating …

Performance-based generative architecture design: A review on design problem formulation and software utilization

S Zhao, E De Angelis - Journal of Integrated Design and …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Performance-based Generative Architecture Design (PGAD) is a design approach based on
coupling parametric modelling with performance simulation and optimization tools. It is …

" Occupational Therapy is Making" Clinical Rapid Prototyping and Digital Fabrication

M Hofmann, K Williams, T Kaplan, S Valencia… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Consumer-fabrication technologies potentially improve the effectiveness and adoption of
assistive technology (AT) by engaging AT users in AT creation. However, little is known …