It is widely acknowledged that environmental impacts from packaging waste depend on how consumers sort this waste fraction. In this research, “design for sustainable behavior” (DfSB) strategies are used to improve a cream packaging design...
The global novel coronavirus pandemic has caused a surge in the use of masks worldwide. A large number of used masks that have not been properly handled enter the environment, which caused and will cause serious ecological problems. The purpose of th...
19 May 2020
Background: This study aimed to specify the prevalence of sedentary behavior and depression and investigate the relationship between sedentary behavior and depression among college students majoring in design. Methods: A total of 480 undergraduate an...
Design for sustainable behavior has become more important for product or service design considering environmental sustainability in the use stage. The goal of this work is to specifically help design for encouraging energy-saving behavior in selectin...
The increasing demand for special education in architectural design highlights the urgent need to ensure the safe evacuation of students with intellectual disabilities. However, current research on classroom evacuation for these students remains limi...
An increasing number of scholars and practitioners are advocating for the exploration of the demand-side consequences of business model (BM) design from the customer’s perceptual perspective. Consistent with this view, this paper discusses how...
Environmental benefits related to home appliance life cycles depend on how these products are used. Designing home appliances that promote sustainable behavior is an effective way to reduce environmental impacts. This study aimed to increase relevant...
This paper proposes a structured design framework and system architecture for a non-intrusive spatial system aimed at supporting child behavior in everyday domestic environments. Rooted in ethical considerations, our approach defines four core behavi...
7 March 2024
Non-communicable diseases are the leading cause of global deaths. The risk of their development and progression is increased by modifiable behavioral risk factors. Yet, despite the known benefits of primary and secondary prevention, people often do n...
The current and future challenges of sustainable development require a massive transformation of habits and behaviors in the whole society at many levels. This demands a change of perspectives, priorities, and practices that can only result from the...
Household waste sorting at the source is an essential part of the waste management system in many countries. Correct sorting of this waste, including food packaging waste, is cost-effective, it facilitates the recycling process and enhances the quali...
Adaptability to unstructured objects and the avoidance of target damage are critical challenges for flexible grippers in fruit-picking robots. Most existing flexible grippers have many problems in terms of control complexity, stability and cost. This...
While the social sustainability of built environments is an essential aspect of architectural design education, systemic experiments still lack empirical pedagogy. Therefore, factors of social sustainability are hardly reflected in students’ pr...
Packaging waste represents a critical challenge for Sustainable Development Goal 12: the design stage accounts for approximately 80% of a packaging solution’s environmental impact, yet existing circular packaging frameworks evaluate finished so...
5 June 2025
The mobile gaming industry has undergone remarkable expansion alongside advancements in mobile and information technologies. Facing intensified market competition due to user number saturation and product homogeneity, industry practitioners require a...
As the platformization of Crowd Intelligence Design (CID) advances and online collaboration deepens, crowd intelligence design platforms have evolved into digital ecosystems constituted by interactions between requesters and designers. Consequently,...
Predicted natural ventilation (NV) often diverges from actual performance in dwellings. This discrepancy arises in part because most design tools do not account for how occupants actually operate windows. This study aims to determine how window geome...
As part of the 14th Five-Year Plan, China aims to establish waste-sorting facilities in 436 cities by 2035. The success of waste sorting is dependent on individual-level changes as well as macro-level changes. Guided by the theory of planned behavior...
(1) Background: As security breaches rise, the “Security by Design” approach is imperative for software organizations. (2) Problem: A significant gap remains between declared security priorities and actual developer behavior. This gap wid...
In the present study, fiber-reinforced plastics (FRP) grid-reinforced concrete with very rapid hardening polymer (VRHP) mortar composites were fabricated using three types of design methods for the FRP grid (hand lay-up method, resin infusion method,...
Virtual commerce applies immersive technology such as augmented reality and virtual reality into e-commerce to shift consumer perception from 2D product catalogs to 3D immersive virtual spaces. In virtual commerce, the alignment of application design...
This study investigates how window design features, such as size, placement, and orientation, might impact occupants’ behavior related to natural ventilation in residential houses and how residents manage natural ventilation to affect indoor ai...
We investigate the impact of augmented reality (AR) on spatial reasoning and visualization skills in design education by analyzing users’ interaction behaviors with AR environments. Specifically, we examine how prior experience in spatial desig...
Revisit intention has been a focal point of research in the academic community over the past decade. However, regional tourism often faces challenges of low revisit rates due to the phenomenon of homogenized development. It is particularly crucial to...
Eco-designed products can contribute to sustainable development if consumers choose them rather than the less environmentally friendly alternatives and if they are used properly. However, eco-design methods have so far failed to address the issue of...
Older adults with dementia in long-term care facilities often become lost, enter unintended rooms, and develop greater dependence on care staff as a result of visuospatial impairment. However, existing dementia-friendly design studies have rarely dis...
In the V-bending of sheet metals using a pair of plastic punch and die manufactured by a 3D printer, the effects of two different dimensions designed with the same tool geometry on the deformation behaviors of the punch, die, and sheet were evaluated...
Digital technologies have reshaped communication, learning, and social interaction, and commercial platforms embed behavioral design strategies that may intensify habitual and, in some cases, compulsive use. This paper presents a narrative conceptual...
Lead users are the most valuable innovation sources in crowdsourcing design; how to identify these users is a research hotspot in the field of design and management. Existing approaches to discover lead users in the context of the online community, s...
In home-based elderly care, nursing beds play a crucial role in the daily lives of older adults. However, most existing nursing beds are designed for general patients, neglecting the specific needs of people with disabilities and their caregivers. To...
As rural tourism continues to develop, service experience has become increasingly important to tourists. Rural tourism destination services involve multiple dimensions, and service design can integrate dispersed resources. However, existing studies h...
Three-dimensional geovisualization in landscape design can be used to evaluate the efforts of mitigating CO2 emissions. This study evaluated subjects’ emotional preferences for 3D landscape design through an eye movement tracking experiment. In...
Due to the increasing digitalization of all societal systems, informed design of services and systems becomes pertinent for various stakeholders. This paper discusses the design of digital systems in a user-centered way with the help of subject-orien...
This study investigates the key factors which influence design learners’ behavioral intention to collaborate with AI in the educational metaverse (EMH-AIc). Engaging design learners in EMH-AIc enhances learning efficiency, personalizes learning...
As emerging approaches, IT-based applications designed for encouraging pro-environmental behaviors have shown great potential. By focusing on Ant Forest, this study attempts to explore the embedded gamification design to identify key elements that le...
The development of electric gerotor pumps is a complex multiphysical optimization problem. To develop optimal systems, accurate simulation models are required to increase digital reliability. An important challenge is the accurate prediction of the p...
Data collection is an important component of evidence-based behavioral interventions for children with autism, but many one-to-one aides (i.e., behavioral support staff) do not systemically collect quantitative data that are necessary for best-practi...
The increasing complexity of cyber–physical manufacturing systems demands simulation architectures that scale with the physical plant without a proportional growth in engineering effort. This paper introduces a formal, symmetry-based framework...
This study investigates the flexural performance of desert sand concrete-filled steel tube (DS-CFST) members through experimental validation and finite element modeling (FEM). An extensive database of square and circular CFST specimens subjected to p...
This research was an empirical effort to uncover the influence of eco-design of airport buildings on customer approach responses and behaviors. A survey methodology with empirical data analysis was used to attain the research purpose. Our findings re...
12 March 2021
There are different ways to deliver Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I), of which in-person (face to face) is the traditional delivery method. However, the scalability of in-person therapy is low. Digital Cognitive Behavioral Therapy fo...
A disconnect remains between high-fidelity physical-characteristic simulation and upper-level validation in RF system design. High-fidelity simulations can accurately characterize key physical effects, such as frequency response, noise, and nonlinear...
Digital nudges refer to subtle modifications in digital choice architectures that are increasingly applied across domains such as healthcare, human–computer interactions, and behavioral science. However, existing approaches often overlook users...
Festivals are an important aspect of cultural design. They not only attract a large number of tourists but are also one of the most direct ways of promoting local culture. This study aimed to discover how festival experiences affect cultural feelings...
As generative AI (GAI) becomes increasingly embedded in higher education teaching, its influence on teachers’ instructional behaviors has shown complex and even contradictory patterns. Moving beyond the dominant single-path perspective that emp...
This study introduces an automated method for constructing residential functional modules from the perspective of user behavior. By integrating the design structure matrix (DSM) and Fuzzy C-Means Clustering Algorithm (FCM), this approach systematical...
Behavioral activation (BA) is a structured psychotherapeutic approach for the treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD), which aims at increasing the engagement in activities that might bring enjoyment and meaning to patients’ lives. Althoug...
Co-design in healthcare settings requires teams to utilize each other’s knowledge effectively, but practical guidance and simple methods for observing collaboration are often lacking. We tested whether a lightweight AI assistant that guides the...
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has transformed design education, yet growing evidence suggests that the fluency of AI-generated outputs may create a “fluency illusion”—a metacognitive bias whereby learners conflate polis...
To help students with autism reach their potential, high-quality inclusive education emphasizes the importance of their full participation in school and classroom activities. Academic anxiety, however, can interfere with students’ ability to fo...
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