Advances in Digital Technology Assisted Industrial Design

Dear Colleagues,

Over the past few decades, with the aid of digital technologies, human society has undergone enormous changes, such as the evolution from the industrial era to the digital era. In particular, the influence of digital technology over industrial designs can be elaborated. On the one hand, designer-oriented intelligent design tools and platforms have been developing rapidly. For example, with the help of intelligent algorithms and new media technologies, designers are offered diverse options in design methods and design media, which greatly improves the efficiency of design work. On the other hand, digital technology has facilitated the interactions among multiple entities including people, products, environments, and society. These technologies have also affected people's behaviors, cultural forms, and aesthetic concepts, giving rise to the proposition of the harmonious coexistence of human, digital technology, and society. More importantly, these advanced technologies such as man–machine interactions and man–machine fusions are research hot spots in the industrial design field.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Cutting-edge digital design theories, technologies, and applications;
• Computer-aided industrial design tools;
• Intelligent algorithms integrated applications in human–machine collaboration;
• Digital technologies aided by innovative design;
• Human–intelligent interaction.

Dr. Dong Zeng
Dr. Chaogang Tang
Guest Editors

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