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Prof. Dr. Hua Dong
Professor, Brunel Design School; Visiting Professor, Loughborough University

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Journal article
Published: 28 May 2021 in Sustainability
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Design heuristics (DHS) as a tool can help boost designers’ creativity in early conceptual design phases. We have developed a set of DHS for digital innovation (DHS10). There are numerous studies on DHS impacts/outcomes in the recent years. However, little research has been conducted to identify whether DHS has lasting benefits on designers’ ideation performance. This paper explores whether DHS10 can help designers achieve more creative ideas based on different design briefs, and if DHS has lasting impacts on or benefits for students. An empirical study was conducted with two groups (i.e., 32 students who learned DHS10 five weeks ago, and 24 students who studied DHS10 instantly). They were asked to address an open-ended design brief on COVID-19 and generate as many innovative ideas as possible. The results suggest DHS has impacts on students who learned DHS just now and five weeks ago. The effect is stronger on those who just learned DHS10. We suggest that DHS10 be provided for ideation as it provides texts and visual stimuli for designers. DHS10 also has the potential to help students understand digital innovation and generate ideas accordingly.

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Xiaoneng Jin; Hua Dong; Mark Evans. The Impacts of Design Heuristics on Concept Generation for a COVID-19 Brief. Sustainability 2021, 13, 6103 .

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Xiaoneng Jin, Hua Dong, Mark Evans. The Impacts of Design Heuristics on Concept Generation for a COVID-19 Brief. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (11):6103.

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Xiaoneng Jin; Hua Dong; Mark Evans. 2021. "The Impacts of Design Heuristics on Concept Generation for a COVID-19 Brief." Sustainability 13, no. 11: 6103.

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Published: 17 December 2020 in Sustainability
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This paper addresses sustainability and gaming from an interior design education perspective, emphasizing the importance of understanding the meaning of ‘complete care’ and raising the awareness of care among design students. The four-step inquiry was adopted as a methodological framework. The theoretical model of ‘complete care’ was proposed and the interactive game ‘Ideal Home’ was developed to raise the awareness of care in design. The game imitated a conversation activity between the interior designer and the client at the early stage of the design process and assisted ‘designers’ to ask meaningful questions from ‘clients’ so as to develop a better understanding of their care needs. Six postgraduate students with interior design backgrounds played the game, and they were observed and interviewed. The results suggested that the participants’ understanding of care improved after they played the game and they were able to identify more issues and detailed needs through the conversations. The significance of the research is that it proposes a theoretical framework to explain the meaning of ‘complete care’ in the design process, and also develops a practical tool (i.e., the game) to educate designers about care.

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Ying Jiang; Timothy Jachna; Hua Dong. Game for Complete Care: A Means of Connecting ‘User-Centered Design’ with Sustainability. Sustainability 2020, 12, 10555 .

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Ying Jiang, Timothy Jachna, Hua Dong. Game for Complete Care: A Means of Connecting ‘User-Centered Design’ with Sustainability. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (24):10555.

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Ying Jiang; Timothy Jachna; Hua Dong. 2020. "Game for Complete Care: A Means of Connecting ‘User-Centered Design’ with Sustainability." Sustainability 12, no. 24: 10555.

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Published: 24 July 2020 in Contemporary Ergonomics 2006
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Two case studies of inclusive product design are presented in this paper: the Selectronic Shower of a UK-based manufacturer and the Bahco Rx Cutter by Ergonomidesign, Sweden. The initiatives of the two projects and their design process were investigated, and the business case discussed. Based on evidence, we concluded that inclusive design is cost-effective.

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Hua Dong; Olle Bobjer; Peter McBride; P. John Clarkson. Inclusive Product Design: Industrial Case Studies from the UK and Sweden. Contemporary Ergonomics 2006 2020, 338 -342.

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Hua Dong, Olle Bobjer, Peter McBride, P. John Clarkson. Inclusive Product Design: Industrial Case Studies from the UK and Sweden. Contemporary Ergonomics 2006. 2020; ():338-342.

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Hua Dong; Olle Bobjer; Peter McBride; P. John Clarkson. 2020. "Inclusive Product Design: Industrial Case Studies from the UK and Sweden." Contemporary Ergonomics 2006 , no. : 338-342.

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Published: 24 July 2020 in Contemporary Ergonomics 2006
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Although there are great potential benefits to companies of widening their target market to include older and disabled users, many companies still target a narrow range of users. The first half of the questionnaire sought to understand the respondent’s context, examining the company’s demographics and its current understanding of and response to inclusive design. This chapter presents intermediate results from the ongoing survey, describing the responses from the first 87 companies. Survey respondents were asked if they had heard of the terms “inclusive design”, “universal design” and “design for all”. The current situation is not as positive as might be expected from a sample with a degree of self-selection. The drivers identified by respondents indicate areas that it may be useful to focus on in efforts to encourage companies to take up inclusive design. The most commonly acknowledged barrier to inclusive design was the lack of time and budget to support it.

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Joy Goodman; Hua Dong; Pat M. Langdon; P. John Clarkson. Industry’s Response to Inclusive Design: A Survey of Current Awareness and Perceptions. Contemporary Ergonomics 2006 2020, 368 -372.

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Joy Goodman, Hua Dong, Pat M. Langdon, P. John Clarkson. Industry’s Response to Inclusive Design: A Survey of Current Awareness and Perceptions. Contemporary Ergonomics 2006. 2020; ():368-372.

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Joy Goodman; Hua Dong; Pat M. Langdon; P. John Clarkson. 2020. "Industry’s Response to Inclusive Design: A Survey of Current Awareness and Perceptions." Contemporary Ergonomics 2006 , no. : 368-372.

Conference paper
Published: 10 July 2020 in Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV
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In the social background of population ageing, this paper addressed the issue of social isolation and loneliness. Reflecting on the current design for social connectedness. We advocate a positive perspective to older people and consider design as mediation for social connection. Practice cases and research show the potential of design mediation connection, however, there is a lack of summarized knowledge of how to design for mediation. This paper aims to answer the research question-How does design as mediation facilitate social connection? This question was answered from two aspects. One focused on the form or features as regards to the design as a result, the other is reflecting design as an ideating process. This research follows a Research through Design (RtD) approach. A design project was launched in a design course for design students. Research materials, including the design process and design outcome, were documented and reflected. As a result, the design elements for enhancing social connection was clarified and conceptualized. It includes five categories from abstract to concrete level, namely role, partnership, encounter, facility and trigger. Design strategies were also concluded according to the five elements. The paper also proposed an ideation process of designing for social connection by linking the design elements with the ideation activities. This research criticized viewing socializing as a functional activity and advocated a new perspective of design as mediation for social connection among older people. The results provided practice guidance and reference for designers in designing intervention for social connection.

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Yumei Dong; Haoxin Weng; Hua Dong; Long Liu. Design as Mediation for Social Connection Against Loneliness of Older People. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2020, 41 -52.

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Yumei Dong, Haoxin Weng, Hua Dong, Long Liu. Design as Mediation for Social Connection Against Loneliness of Older People. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2020; ():41-52.

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Yumei Dong; Haoxin Weng; Hua Dong; Long Liu. 2020. "Design as Mediation for Social Connection Against Loneliness of Older People." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV , no. : 41-52.

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Published: 17 April 2020 in Designing for Inclusion
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Ageing is a prominent challenge facing the world. Increasing physical activity among older adults not only helps maintain and improve their health, but also has positive economic and social implications. Since 2007, research on physical activity among older adults has increased significantly, suggesting an increased research interest in the field. This paper reviewed relevant publication (from Web of Science Core Collection and Medline) over the period 1999–2019. The visualisation software CiteSpace was used to mine data, map information, and reveal trends. Important areas for further research were identified.

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L. Liu; H. Dong. Ageing and Physical Activity: A Preliminary Literature Review. Designing for Inclusion 2020, 125 -131.

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L. Liu, H. Dong. Ageing and Physical Activity: A Preliminary Literature Review. Designing for Inclusion. 2020; ():125-131.

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L. Liu; H. Dong. 2020. "Ageing and Physical Activity: A Preliminary Literature Review." Designing for Inclusion , no. : 125-131.

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Published: 03 July 2019 in Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV
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Users and contexts in human-computer interaction systems often have great diversity, which limits the inclusion provided by a single design. Existing user-sensitive design and contextual design methodologies have made useful attempts to pay attention to diversities, but they still cannot provide sufficient design basis for adapting to dynamically changing user capabilities, needs and usage contexts. Based on the analysis of the interaction between the behavior model and various elements in the human-computer system, this paper constructs a contextualized user-sensitive design framework, and studies the diversity and changing factors in the human-computer system from the two basic dimensions of the user and the context. In order to reflect the multi-dimensional dynamic characteristics of users, the authors propose a new user research and analysis tool, the generalized user balance sheet, for user-sensitive design, and takes a questionnaire case to reveal the huge differences of users’ needs in different contexts. Based on the contextualized user-sensitive design framework, this paper shows the basic methods and essential system elements of user-sensitive design and contextualized design, as well as the possibility of combining the two for inclusive design.

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Fang Li; Hua Dong. Achieving Inclusion with Contextualized User-Sensitive Design. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2019, 113 -132.

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Fang Li, Hua Dong. Achieving Inclusion with Contextualized User-Sensitive Design. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2019; ():113-132.

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Fang Li; Hua Dong. 2019. "Achieving Inclusion with Contextualized User-Sensitive Design." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV , no. : 113-132.

Conference paper
Published: 18 June 2019 in Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV
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The automobile industry is in the transformation period: from traditional combustion vehicles to new energy vehicles. It is of great significance for automobile companies and researchers to understand users’ concerns during this period, as well as the changes in automobile sound brought by the transformation. This paper reports on a mixed-method study of a survey of typical users and interviews with ten experts from a large automobile company. The aim was to identify current concerns of automobile and identify methods to improve the auditory experience. The key findings are: (1) automobile’s power was the most concerned factor; the second group of user concerns relates to appearance, price, and driving experience, followed by configuration, accelerating performance, and fuel consumption. Environmental friendliness were the least concerned factors. (2) Human evolution, human needs, driving contexts, the human five senses, and natural sounds consistent with the particular frequency band were current industrial understanding of the design of automobile auditory experience; and consistency, anti-interference mechanism, and redundancy design were considered as the design principles of auditory experience by automobile developers; and they use comparison and users’ subjective evaluation for auditory experience evaluation; a holistic framework of auditory experience was expected by developers to enhance their understanding of it. This paper contributes to a deeper understanding of automobile auditory experience by bringing together the viewpoints of automobile users and developers.

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Yang Zhao; Hua Dong. Automobile Auditory Experience: A Pilot Study. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2019, 255 -269.

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Yang Zhao, Hua Dong. Automobile Auditory Experience: A Pilot Study. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2019; ():255-269.

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Yang Zhao; Hua Dong. 2019. "Automobile Auditory Experience: A Pilot Study." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV , no. : 255-269.

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Published: 28 August 2018 in Ageing and Society
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With declining vision ability, character spacing and size on smartphones designed for the general population are not accessible for older adults. This study aimed to explore how larger Chinese character spacing and size affect older adults’ user experience (UX). An orthogonal experiment was conducted. The optimal range of font size (FS), word spacing (WS) and line spacing (LS) were proposed utilising subjective evaluations to investigate the correlation of eye movement data with participants perceived UX. The results showed that improvement in different aspects of UX varied when FS, WS and LS increased. Overall, participants preferred larger FS, WS and LS, however, the larger FS, WS and LS values are more likely to cause errors and slower reading speed. These results suggest that the distinct combination of size and spacing depends on the motivation, needs and situation of older people when reading on a smartphone. These findings will help designers to provide better design for the older people.

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Guanhua Hou; Hua Dong; Weining Ning; Lianghao Han. Larger Chinese text spacing and size: effects on older users’ experience. Ageing and Society 2018, 40, 389 -411.

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Guanhua Hou, Hua Dong, Weining Ning, Lianghao Han. Larger Chinese text spacing and size: effects on older users’ experience. Ageing and Society. 2018; 40 (2):389-411.

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Guanhua Hou; Hua Dong; Weining Ning; Lianghao Han. 2018. "Larger Chinese text spacing and size: effects on older users’ experience." Ageing and Society 40, no. 2: 389-411.

Conference paper
Published: 02 June 2018 in Privacy Enhancing Technologies
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Healthcare is a specialized sector in which products and service provision are embedded with professional requirements that are unfamiliar to most of the designers, and different stakeholders have quite different knowledge backgrounds, viewpoint of concerns, working styles, etc.. which make the communication and innovation among them complex and difficult. The Design Council in UK launched a free-to-access online EBCD (Experience Based Co-Design) toolkit to facilitate designers working closely with healthcare providers and patients in design process. In the College of Design and Innovation (D&I) of Tongji University in China, we are planning to establish an online platform based on the EBCD methodology to promote effective and efficient communication among different parties in healthcare design and innovation (healthcare providers, engineers, designers, patients, etc.) to encourage idea generating and sharing. In this paper, the functionality of the platform as well as some experience we obtained from the EBCD practice will be presented.

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Long Liu; Weiyu Zhang; Jinhua Li; Hua Dong. HEDI: An Online Platform for Healthcare Engineering Design and Innovation. Privacy Enhancing Technologies 2018, 308 -319.

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Long Liu, Weiyu Zhang, Jinhua Li, Hua Dong. HEDI: An Online Platform for Healthcare Engineering Design and Innovation. Privacy Enhancing Technologies. 2018; ():308-319.

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Long Liu; Weiyu Zhang; Jinhua Li; Hua Dong. 2018. "HEDI: An Online Platform for Healthcare Engineering Design and Innovation." Privacy Enhancing Technologies , no. : 308-319.

Conference paper
Published: 01 June 2018 in Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV
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Ageing is commonly considered as a serious social problem. Older adults are often regarded as the consumers of social welfare rather than creators and they are thought to be “incapable” and “worthless”. This article advocated a strength-oriented or empowerment-oriented perspective. Based on different empowerment models, this paper proposed an influence and process model of empowerment. It provided a framework to map the strengths of “incapable” people (as traditionally believed) and barriers to empowering them, and a practical reference to take action for empowerment during which participation was emphasized. Cases of empowerment for older people was introduced and analyzed following the framework of the model by which we provided a reference of empowerment-oriented practice for researchers and practitioners.

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Yumei Dong; Hua Dong. Design Empowerment for Older Adults. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2018, 465 -477.

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Yumei Dong, Hua Dong. Design Empowerment for Older Adults. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2018; ():465-477.

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Yumei Dong; Hua Dong. 2018. "Design Empowerment for Older Adults." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV , no. : 465-477.

Conference paper
Published: 01 September 2017 in 2017 5th International Conference on Enterprise Systems (ES)
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User Experience (UX) of virtual reality games is usually measured by subjective and objective methods: subjective methods are most convenient way to rating usability, comfort, satisfactory, etc., however, subjective methods are more easily to be misguided. Eye tracking is one of the most popular objective methods to measure usability. However, when wearing a VR helmet, eye tracker is hard to use to record eye movement data. In our study, we developed a new method and indicator to test virtual reality game UX: Electroencephalography(EEG) signals and the brain functional connectivity (FC). We tested two kinds of VR games by using EEG signals, the results showed the FC has a significant difference for two VR games of different usability, and a significant difference were observed in Gamma band, which indicated EEG can be a good tool to analyze UX of virtual reality game.

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Guanhua Hou; Hua Dong; Yang Yang. Developing a Virtual Reality Game User Experience Test Method Based on EEG Signals. 2017 5th International Conference on Enterprise Systems (ES) 2017, 227 -231.

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Guanhua Hou, Hua Dong, Yang Yang. Developing a Virtual Reality Game User Experience Test Method Based on EEG Signals. 2017 5th International Conference on Enterprise Systems (ES). 2017; ():227-231.

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Guanhua Hou; Hua Dong; Yang Yang. 2017. "Developing a Virtual Reality Game User Experience Test Method Based on EEG Signals." 2017 5th International Conference on Enterprise Systems (ES) , no. : 227-231.

Conference paper
Published: 24 June 2017 in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
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Methods of user experience evaluation play an important role in guiding designers in designing for a desired user experience, but methodological research on how to evaluate experience effectively is inadequate. The main aim of our study was to evaluate user experience with the ticket gate of subway station. This paper discussed Repertory Grid Technique (RGT), a method adopted from psychology that has been used in product development to help unveil users’ subjective feelings about the product, and empirically illustrated a way in which the RGT may be conducted as an approach in field study for dealing with user experience evaluation. In conclusion, the application of this technique elicited valuable insight from respondents and provided promising direction for further research on user experience evaluation.

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Linna Hu; Yimu Yang; Long Liu; Hua Dong. User Experience Evaluation on Ticket Gage of Subway Station: A Repertory Grid Approach. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 2017, 597, 985 -997.

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Linna Hu, Yimu Yang, Long Liu, Hua Dong. User Experience Evaluation on Ticket Gage of Subway Station: A Repertory Grid Approach. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. 2017; 597 ():985-997.

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Linna Hu; Yimu Yang; Long Liu; Hua Dong. 2017. "User Experience Evaluation on Ticket Gage of Subway Station: A Repertory Grid Approach." Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 597, no. : 985-997.

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Published: 13 June 2017 in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
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From a historical and cross-disciplined perspective, this paper reviewed the evolvement of empathy in philosophical aesthetics, sociology and psychotherapy. Three aspects of ambiguities about empathy were summarized, namely, affection and cognition, subject-oriented and object-oriented perspective, and attitude and ability, based on which a system of coordinates was created to indicate three pairs corresponding problems of empathy in design research and practice. Through this system of coordinates, the authors wanted to build a reference for designers and researchers to deeper understand the subtle nature of empathy in design.

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Yumei Dong; Hua Dong; Shu Yuan. Empathy in Design: A Historical and Cross-Disciplinary Perspective. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 2017, 295 -304.

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Yumei Dong, Hua Dong, Shu Yuan. Empathy in Design: A Historical and Cross-Disciplinary Perspective. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. 2017; ():295-304.

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Yumei Dong; Hua Dong; Shu Yuan. 2017. "Empathy in Design: A Historical and Cross-Disciplinary Perspective." Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing , no. : 295-304.

Conference paper
Published: 11 June 2017 in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
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This paper explores the relationship between designers and users from the perspective of care. Methods included a critical investigation of literature about the ideal care relationship, interviews with Hong Kong residential designers about their opinion on “designers as care professions” and analyses of these designers’ strategies for interacting with users. The research reveals that designers tend to view themselves as collaborative partners in satisfying users’ needs from the user-centered design perspective. This design approach leads designers to focus on each individual’s desire. But largely ignored their role as active influencers in changing user’s behavior and improving people’s relationships. This study suggests that designers consider residential design from a care-orientated perspective to build a more harmonious relationship with users.

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Ying Jiang; Timothy Joseph Jachna; Hua Dong; Giuseppe Di Bucchianico; Pete F Kercher. An Exploration of Designer-to-User Relationship from a Care-Orientated Perspective. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 2017, 587, 22 -33.

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Ying Jiang, Timothy Joseph Jachna, Hua Dong, Giuseppe Di Bucchianico, Pete F Kercher. An Exploration of Designer-to-User Relationship from a Care-Orientated Perspective. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. 2017; 587 ():22-33.

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Ying Jiang; Timothy Joseph Jachna; Hua Dong; Giuseppe Di Bucchianico; Pete F Kercher. 2017. "An Exploration of Designer-to-User Relationship from a Care-Orientated Perspective." Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 587, no. : 22-33.

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Published: 11 June 2017 in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
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The collaborative economy involves many different fields and it is difficult to define what activities are comprised. General impact evidence is inconclusive. However, some of them address problems about indirect discriminations, labour security and inequalities, the lack of regulation. Considerations about ‘inclusion’ and ‘exclusion’ states are needed for services involved in shared consumption. The authors propose the ‘Sharing-Based Services’ (SBS) conceptual framework to study and analyse a set of services. In particular, this paper describes an analytical tool (I-SBS) comprising an approach and the activities to consider the aspects of the ‘inclusion’ and ‘exclusion’ in SBS. The series of design workshops to evaluate the tool has been described in detail. The analytical tool, the design results, and the process of design workshops are presented as the main results.

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Daniele Busciantella Ricci; Hua Dong; Alessandra Rinaldi; Francesca Tosi. Inclusion in Sharing-Based Services (I-SBS): An Analytical Tool. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 2017, 587, 207 -219.

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Daniele Busciantella Ricci, Hua Dong, Alessandra Rinaldi, Francesca Tosi. Inclusion in Sharing-Based Services (I-SBS): An Analytical Tool. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. 2017; 587 ():207-219.

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Daniele Busciantella Ricci; Hua Dong; Alessandra Rinaldi; Francesca Tosi. 2017. "Inclusion in Sharing-Based Services (I-SBS): An Analytical Tool." Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 587, no. : 207-219.

Conference paper
Published: 14 May 2017 in DNA Computing
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Jing Pan; Nick Bryan-Kinns; Hua Dong. Mobile Technology Adoption Among Older People - An Exploratory Study in the UK. DNA Computing 2017, 14 -24.

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Jing Pan, Nick Bryan-Kinns, Hua Dong. Mobile Technology Adoption Among Older People - An Exploratory Study in the UK. DNA Computing. 2017; ():14-24.

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Jing Pan; Nick Bryan-Kinns; Hua Dong. 2017. "Mobile Technology Adoption Among Older People - An Exploratory Study in the UK." DNA Computing , no. : 14-24.

Journal article
Published: 19 April 2017 in Medical Image Analysis
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This paper presents a new hybrid biomechanial model-based non-rigid image registration method for lung motion estimation. In the proposed method, a patient-specific biomechanical modelling process captures major physically realistic deformations with explicit physical modelling of sliding motion, whilst a subsequent non-rigid image registration process compensates for small residuals. The proposed algorithm was evaluated with 10 4D CT datasets of lung cancer patients. The target registration error (TRE), defined as the Euclidean distance of landmark pairs, was significantly lower with the proposed method (TRE =1.37mm) than with biomechanical model (TRE =3.81mm) and intensity-based image registration without specific considerations for sliding motion (TRE=4.57mm). The proposed method achieved a comparable accuracy as several recently developed intensity-based registration algorithms with sliding handling on the same datasets. A detailed comparison on the distributions of TREs with three non-rigid intensity-based algorithms showed that the proposed method performed especially well on estimating the displacement field of lung surface regions (mean TRE=1.33mm, maximum TRE=5.3mm). The effects of biomechanical model parameters (such as Poisson's ratio, friction and tissue heterogeneity) on displacement estimation were investigated. The potential of the algorithm in optimising biomechanical models of lungs through analysing the pattern of displacement compensation from the image registration process has also been demonstrated.

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Lianghao Han; Hua Dong; Jamie McClelland; Liangxiu Han; David J. Hawkes; Dean C. Barratt. A hybrid patient-specific biomechanical model based image registration method for the motion estimation of lungs. Medical Image Analysis 2017, 39, 87 -100.

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Lianghao Han, Hua Dong, Jamie McClelland, Liangxiu Han, David J. Hawkes, Dean C. Barratt. A hybrid patient-specific biomechanical model based image registration method for the motion estimation of lungs. Medical Image Analysis. 2017; 39 ():87-100.

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Lianghao Han; Hua Dong; Jamie McClelland; Liangxiu Han; David J. Hawkes; Dean C. Barratt. 2017. "A hybrid patient-specific biomechanical model based image registration method for the motion estimation of lungs." Medical Image Analysis 39, no. : 87-100.

Conference paper
Published: 21 June 2016 in Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV
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Linna Hu; Hua Dong. Designing Poker Time: Older People as Fixpartners in a Co-design Process. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2016, 13 -22.

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Linna Hu, Hua Dong. Designing Poker Time: Older People as Fixpartners in a Co-design Process. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2016; ():13-22.

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Linna Hu; Hua Dong. 2016. "Designing Poker Time: Older People as Fixpartners in a Co-design Process." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV , no. : 13-22.

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Published: 21 June 2016 in Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV
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Much of the existing research on older people’s needs is based upon a popular understanding that older people are defined by age strata. However, from the perspective of the multidimensional meaning of aging, people’s age is a state that represents a process of change. It cannot be simply defined in years. This concept motivates us to explore the needs of older people from the perspective of aging. This study aims first, to provide a literature review on different aspects of aging in order to better understand the aging process. Second, having considered aging, a critical needs model was proposed. As a result, a design suggestion was made in order for designers to focus their attention on helping people find the meaning of life as a first principle.

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Ying Jiang; Timothy Joseph Jachna; Hua Dong. Understanding the Critical Needs of Older People: An Aging Perspective. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2016, 32 -41.

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Ying Jiang, Timothy Joseph Jachna, Hua Dong. Understanding the Critical Needs of Older People: An Aging Perspective. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2016; ():32-41.

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Ying Jiang; Timothy Joseph Jachna; Hua Dong. 2016. "Understanding the Critical Needs of Older People: An Aging Perspective." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV , no. : 32-41.