Cong Fang, Yujie Zhu, Le Fang, Yonghao Long, Huan Lin, Yangfan Cong, Stephen Jia Wang
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Abstract
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has gained increasing attention, enhancing design productivity by elevating creativity within the conceptual design process. Despite these advancements, how GenAI will influence the conceptual design process and methods remains ambiguous, hindering its full potential. This study introduces a systematic literature review to explore GenAI's role in the conceptual design process, emphasizing the GenAI-human interactions and collaborations. We offer a critical evaluation of the current state of GenAI-human collaboration, identifying challenges, opportunities, and future research directions to leverage GenAI's design potential for enhancing creativity in conceptual design practice. Finally, a Generative AI Enhanced Conceptual Design framework was further proposed to clarify the potential collaborative design process, which can serve as a guideline for effective human-AI collaboration in the conceptual design process.
期刊介绍:
Design Studies is a leading international academic journal focused on developing understanding of design processes. It studies design activity across all domains of application, including engineering and product design, architectural and urban design, computer artefacts and systems design. It therefore provides an interdisciplinary forum for the analysis, development and discussion of fundamental aspects of design activity, from cognition and methodology to values and philosophy.
Design Studies publishes work that is concerned with the process of designing, and is relevant to a broad audience of researchers, teachers and practitioners. We welcome original, scientific and scholarly research papers reporting studies concerned with the process of designing in all its many fields, or furthering the development and application of new knowledge relating to design process. Papers should be written to be intelligible and pertinent to a wide range of readership across different design domains. To be relevant for this journal, a paper has to offer something that gives new insight into or knowledge about the design process, or assists new development of the processes of designing.