Keynote Speaker
Anna Abraham
Professor of Psychology at Leeds Beckett University

Session 1: New Design Methods
Chair: TBA
Towards the Rapid Design of Engineered Systems Through Deep Neural Networks
Christopher McComb
Deep Component-based Neural Network Energy Modelling for Early Design Stage Prediction
Sundaravelpandian Singaravel and Philipp Geyer
Unsuccessful Search: An fMRI Investigation of Analogical Reasoning and Impasse During Design Concept Generation
Kosa Goucher-Lambert, Jarrod Moss and Jonathan Cagan
Designing With and For the Crowd: A Study of Design Processes in NatureNet
Stephen MacNeil, Sarah Abdellahi, Mary Lou Maher, Jin Goog Kim, Mohammad Mahzoon and Kazjon Grace
A Comparison of Tree Search Method for Graph Topology Design Problems
Ada-Rhodes Short, Bryony Dupont and Matt Campbell

Session 2: Design Cognition – Design Approaches
Chair: TBA
Extroversion of Co-Design Cognition through Immersive Retrospection
Tomás Dorta, Emmanuel Beaudry-Marchand and Davide Pierini
Demystifying the Creative Qualities of Evolving Actions in Design Reasoning Processes
Tamir El-Khouly
The Effect of Tangible Interaction on Spatial Design Tasks
Jingoog Kim, Mary Maher and Lina Lee
Side-by-side Human-Computer Design using a Tangible User Interface
Matt Law, Nikhil Dhawan, Hyunseung Bang, So-Yeon Yoon, Daniel Selva and Guy Hoffman

Session 3: Design Synthesis
Chair: TBA
Explicit vs Implicit: A Comparative Analysis of Generative Models with Different Level of Embedded Constraints in Building Optimization Designs
Likai Wang, Patrick Janssen and Guohua Ji
Exploring the Feature Space to Aid Learning in Design Space Exploration
Hyunseung Bang, Lily Shi, So-Yeon Yoon, Guy Hoffman and Daniel Selva
Redefining Supports: Extending Mass Customization with Digital Tool to Push the Limit of Collaborative Residential Design Process
Tian Tian Lo, Basem Eid Mohamed and Marc Aurel Schnabel
A Study in Function Modeling Preferences and its Variation with Designer Expertise and Product Types
Xiaoyang Mao, Chiradeep Sen and Cameron Turner
Touch and Tell: Computing With Hands, Describing with Language, and Making with Both
Maroula Bacharidou

Session 4: Design Theory
Chair: TBA
Model-based abduction in designs
Lauri Koskela and Ehud Kroll
From Shape Computations to Shape Decompositions
Djordje Krstic
Automated Induction of General Grammars for Design
Mark Whiting, Jonathan Cagan and Philip Leduc
Generative Shape Design using 3D Spatial Grammars and Simulation
Luca Zimmermann, Tian Chen and Kristina Shea

Session 5: Design Cognition – Designer Behaviors
Chair: TBA
Comparing Two Communication Models of Team Design Activities
Hao Jiang and John Gero
Individual Differences in Tendency for Design Fixation
Song Lai and Li Shu
Functional Thinking: A Protocol Study to Map Modeling Behavior of Designers
Ashwinraj Thiagarajan, Apurva Patel, Steven O'Shields and Joshua Summers
To Copy or not to Copy: The Influence of Instructions in Design Inspiration and Fixation Experiments
Luis Vasconcelos, Chih-Chun Chen, Eloise Taysom and Nathan Crilly

Session 6: Poster Session 1
Chair: TBA
Poster presentations - list of posters

Session 7: Design Grammars
Chair: TBA
A Self-Organizing Map Based Approach to Adaptive System Formation
Dizhou Lu and Yan Jin
Utilizing Markov Chains to Understand Operation Sequencing in Design Tasks
Christopher McComb, Jonathan Cagan and Kenneth Kotovsky
Designerly Pick and Place: Coding Physical Model Making as Preparation for Better Robotic Interaction
Daniel Smithwick, David Kirsh and Larry Sass
Knowledge Distribution and the Effect of Design Tools on the Design Process
Mina Tahsiri, Jonathan Hale and Chantelle Niblock

Conference Dinner

Session 8: Design and Visualization
Chair: TBA
A Heuristic Approach for the Automated Generation of Furniture Layout Schemes in Residential Spaces
Sherif Abdelmohsen, Ayman Assem, Sherif Tarabishy and Ahmed Ibrahim
3DDJ: An Analytical and Generative Design System for Synthesizing High-Performance Textures from 3D Scans
Sayjel Patel, Kam-Ming Tam and Caitlin Mueller
Automated Best Connected Rectangular Floor Plans
Krishnendra Shekhawat and José Duarte
Individual Coffee Maker Design Using Graph-Based Design Languages
Claudia Tonhaeuser and Stephan Rudolph

Session 9: Design Modeling
Chair: TBA
Translating Analytical Descriptions of Cities into Synthetic Urban Design Models
Kinda Al Sayed and Alan Penn
Exploring the Cognitive Dynamics of Product Adoption
Niccolò Becattini, Gaetano Cascini and Francesca Montagna
Characterising the Visual Information Interaction of Engineers
Duncan Boa and Ben Hicks
Personalised Specific Curiosity for Computational Design Systems
Kazjon Grace, Mary Lou Maher, David Wilson and Nadia Najjar

Session 10: Poster Session 2
Chair: TBA
Posters presentations - list of posters

Session 11: Design Processes
Chair: TBA
Experiences with Large Learner Data for Understanding How People Design: Insights and Lessons Learned
Robin Adams and Molly Goldstein
Generalizability of Document Features for Learning Rationale
Benjamin Rogers, Connor Justice, Tanmay Mathur and Janet Burge
The Topology of Social Influence and the Dynamics of Design Product Adoption
Somwrita Sarkar and John Gero
Using Graph Complexity Connectivity Method to Predict Information from Design Representations: A Comparative Study
Sri Ram Mohinder Cherkadu Vasala, Amaninder Gill and Joshua Summers
Identifying Latent, Time-Dependent Product Features From Online Reviews
Dedy Suryadi and Harrison Kim