Designing for Responsible Innovation in the AI Era

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  • Yun Wang Beihang University
  • Yingqing XU Tsinghua University

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10.31182/cubic.2024.7.74

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design thinking, design ethics, responsible design, cross-disciplinary research

Abstract

From a cross-disciplinary research perspective, the design discipline has launched a new round of expansion. Design scholars are encountering new challenges in research projects that deeply integrate science, technology and design. With Artificial Intelligence (AI), rapid technological development will change how we think and live in the future, reshaping social protocols and moral ethics and resulting in an immense but immeasurable impact. AI’s implemental nature also provides a means for the possibility of self-correction. Designers’ depth and diversity of understanding and speculation about such a new tool are still far from enough. As important stakeholders of innovation, designers need to actively engage at the forefront of promoting innovation value and design ethics. Responsible design in the context of responsible innovation should formulate more forward-looking goals and tasks as a facilitator, stressing the ignored points in the world.

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Wang, Y., & XU, Y. (2024). Designing for Responsible Innovation in the AI Era. Cubic Journal, 7(7), 98–103. https://doi.org/10.31182/cubic.2024.7.74

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2024-12-31

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No. 7 (2024): PhD Design and the Design PhD — In · Through · About

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Articles

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Author Biographies

Yun Wang, Beihang University

Wang Yun received a Ph.D. in design from the Academy of Arts & Design and the Future Laboratory of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in December 2024. She is an associate professor at the School of New Media Art and Design of Beihang University, Beijing, China. Her research focuses on user experience design in natural human computer interaction and responsible design research methodology.

Yingqing XU, Tsinghua University

Prof. Yingqing Xu is a professor at the Academy of Arts & Design of Tsinghua University and director of the Future Laboratory of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. His teaching and research fields include natural user experience design, immersive and tangible interaction and E-heritage. Prof. Xu has published 100 peer-reviewed papers and granted patents. He is a China Computer Federation fellow, a senior member of the IEEE, and a member of the China Artists Association and the Association for Computing Machinery.

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