Opening Keynote, Venue: Auditorium
Hod Lipson, Columbia University
Automating Discovery: From Cognitive Robotics to Particle Physics

Session 1: Design Cognition - 1, Venue: Auditorium
Chair: Mary Lou Maher
Empirically Understanding the Impact of Item Constraints on Designer Ideation
Leah Chong, Kosa Goucher-Lambert, Kenneth Kotovsky and Jonathan Cagan
Exploring the Use of Digital Tools to Support Design Studio Pedagogy Through Studying Collaboration and Cognition
Julie Milovanovic and John Gero
Modelling the Dynamics of Influence on Individual Thinking during Idea Generation in Co-design Teams
Harshika Singh, Christopher McComb and Gaetano Cascini
The Psychological Links between Systems Thinking and Sequential Decision Making in Engineering Design
John Clay, Molla Hafizur Rahman, Darya Zabelina, Charles Xie and Zhenghui Sha
SHORT: Patterns of Silence and Communication Between Paired Designers in Collaborative Computer-Aided Design
Meaghan Vella, Vrushank Phadnis and Alison Olechowski
SHORT: This is How I Design: Discussing Design Principles in Small Multidisciplinary Teams of Design Professionals
Christine Toh and Nicole Damen

Session 2: Design Grammars & Networks, Venue: Auditorium
Chair: Thanos Economou
Design Without Rigid Rules
Sotirios D Kotsopoulos
Deriving the Production Rules of Shape-Shifting Grammars for Adaptive Façades: The Case of Hygromorphic Thermo-bimetal Composites (HMTM)
Rana El-Dabaa and Sherif Abdelmohsen
Spatial and Nonspatial in Calculations with Shapes
Djordje Krstic
Tracing Hybridity in Local Adaptations of Modern Architecture: The Case of A. William Hajjar’s Single-Family Architecture
Mahyar Hadighi and Jose Duarte
Five Criteria for Shape Grammar Interpreters
Tzu-Chieh Kurt Hong and Athanassios Economou

Session 3: Design Generation, Venue: Auditorium
Chair: Dave Brown
SAPPhIRE: A Multistep Representation for Abductive Reasoning in Design Synthesis
Apoorv Naresh Bhatt and Amaresh Chakrabarti
A Mathematical Approach for Generating a Floor Plan for given Adjacency Requirements
Krishnendra Shekhawat
Interior Layout Generation Based on Scene Graph and Graph Generation Model
Xia Su, Chenglin Wu, Wen Gao and Weixin Huang
Less is More? In Patents, Design Transformations That Add Occur More Often Than Those That Subtract
Katelyn Stenger, Clara Na and Leidy Klotz
Voxel Synthesis for Architectural Design
Immanuel Koh
SHORT: Reverse Algorithmic Design
António Leitão and Sara Garcia

Session 4: Posters - 1, Venue: Auditorium + Poster Space
Chair Oscar Nespoli
Each poster will have a 3 minute presentation in the Auditorium. After the presentations the posters will be on display in the Poster Space for attendees to view and ask questions of the poster author. 

List of posters in this session .

Session 5: Design Creativity, Venue: Auditorium
Chair: Christine Toh
Metaphorical Concepts and Framework for Designing Novel Approaches to Interactive Buildings
Jingoog Kim and Mary Lou Maher
Design for Cybersecurity (DfC) Cards: A Creativity-Based Approach to Support Designers’ Consideration of Cybersecurity
Vivek Rao, Euiyoung Kim, Hyun Jie Jung, Kosa Goucher-Lambert and Alice Agogino
Towards a Virtual Librarian for Literature-Based Design
Ashok Goel, Shimin Zhang, Kaylin Hagopian and Spencer Rugaber
SHORT: An Investigation into the Cognitive and Spatial Markers of Creativity and Efficiency in Architectural design
Kinda Al Sayed and Alan Penn
SHORT: Assessing the Novelty of Design Outcomes: Using a Perceptual Kernel in a Crowd-Sourced Setting
Dongwook Hwang and Kristin Wood
SHORT: Serendipitous Explorations in Distributed Work in Parametric Design
Livanur Erbil Altintas, Altug Kasali and Fehmi Dogan

Session 6: Design Cognition - 2, Venue: Auditorium
Chair: Laura Hay
Does Empathy Beget Creativity? Investigating the role of Trait Empathy on Idea Generation and Selection
Mohammad Alsager Alzayed, Scarlett Miller and Christopher McComb
How Do Designers Think in Systems? – Empirical Insights from Protocol Studies of Experienced Practitioners Designing Product/Service Systems
Abhijna Neramballi, Tomohiko Sakao and John Gero
Towards Modelling Interpretation of Structure as a Situated Activity: A Case Study of Japanese Rock Garden Designs
Yuval Kahlon and Haruyuki Fujii
Interactive Visualization for Design Dialog
Arefin Mohiuddin and Robert Woodbury
SHORT: Composing Empathic Design Teams: A Simulation-based Investigation on the Role of Personality Traits and Risk Taking Attitudes on Team Empathy
Mohammad Alsager Alzayed, Scarlett Miller and Christopher McComb
SHORT: Emergence of Engineering Design Self-efficacy in Engineering Identity Development
John Jongho Park, Elizabeth Starkey, Nathan Hyungsok Choe and Christopher McComb

Session 7: Poster - 2, Venue: Auditorium + Poster Space
Chair: Julie Milovanovic
Each poster will have a 3 minute presentation in the Auditorium. After the presentations the posters will be on display in the Poster Space for attendees to view and ask questions of the poster author.

List of posters in this session.

Session 8: Design Neurocognition and Physiology , Venue: Auditorium
Chair: Jon Cagan
Designing-Related Neural Processes: Higher Alpha Band and Beta Band Key Roles in Distinguishing Designing from Problem-Solving
Sonia Vieira, John S. Gero, Valentin Gattol, Jessica Delmoral, Shumin Li, Gaetano Cascini and António A. Fernandes
Verifying Design through Generative Visualisation of Neural Activity
Pan Wang, Danlin Peng, Simiao Yu, Chao Wu, Peter Childs, Yike Guo and Ling Li
NeuroDesignScience: Systematic Literature Review of Current Research on Design using Neuroscience Techniques
Takumi Ohashi, Jan Auernhammer, Wei Liu, Wenjie Pan and Larry Leifer
SHORT: Psychological Response to Virtual Reality Spaces Using Biometrics
Na Yeon Kim and Hyunsoo Lee

Session 9: Human and Machine Learning in Design, Venue: Auditorium
Chair: Alison Olechowski
A Machine Learning Approach for Mining the Multidimensional Impact of Urban Form on Community Scale Energy Consumption in Cities
Mina Rahimian, Guido Cervone, Jose Pinto Duarte and Lisa Domenica Iulo
Data Mining a Design Repository to Generate Linear Functional Chains: A Step Toward Automating Functional Modeling
Katherine Edmonds, Alex Mikes, Bryony Dupont and Robert B. Stone
Contributions and Challenges of Pearl’s Causal Networks to Causal Analysis in Design
Raymond Mccall and Janet Burge
SHORT: Variational Deep Embedding Mines Concepts from Comprehensive Optimal Designs
Kazuki Minowa, Kikuo Fujita, Yutaka Nomaguchi, Shintaro Yamasaki and Kentaro Yaji
SHORT: Learning comes from Experience: The Effects on Human Learning and Performance of a Virtual Assistant for Design Space Exploration
Antoni Viros i Martin and Daniel Selva
SHORT: Designing Self-Assembly Systems with Deep Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
Yan Jin and Hao Ji
SHORT: The Order Effect of Associative and Rule-Based Reasoning Strategies in Design Learning
Batuhan Taneri and Fehmi Doğan
SHORT: Conversational Co-Creativity with Deep Reinforcement Learning Agent in Kitchen Layout
Poyen Hsieh, Deborah Benros and Timur Dogan
SHORT: Spatial and Nonspatial in Calculations with Shapes
Djordje Krstic

Closing, Venue: Auditorium