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5 papers

cs.HC2026

Designing Rewards for Rewarding Designs: Demonstrating the Impact of Rewards on the Creative Design Process

Surabhi S Nath, Vindula Jayawardana, Monica Van +2

The creative design process involves transforming abstract goals into concrete outcomes through a series of decisions made under constraints. While such processes are commonly shap…

cs.HC2026

Personagram: Bridging Personas and Product Design for Creative Ideation with Multimodal LLMs

Taewook Kim, Matthew K. Hong, Yan-Ying Chen +5

Product designers often begin their design process with handcrafted personas. While personas are intended to ground design decisions in consumer preferences, they often fall short…

cs.HC2026

Deconstructing Taste: Toward a Human-Centered AI Framework for Modeling Consumer Aesthetic Perceptions

Matthew K. Hong, Joey Li, Alexandre Filipowicz +6

Understanding and modeling consumers' stylistic taste such as "sporty" is crucial for creating designs that truly connect with target audiences. However, capturing taste during the…

cs.LG2025

Learning to Represent Individual Differences for Choice Decision Making

Yan-Ying Chen, Yue Weng, Alexandre Filipowicz +7

Human decision making can be challenging to predict because decisions are affected by a number of complex factors. Adding to this complexity, decision-making processes can differ c…

cs.LG2025

ConjointNet: Enhancing Conjoint Analysis for Preference Prediction with Representation Learning

Yanxia Zhang, Francine Chen, Shabnam Hakimi +9

Understanding consumer preferences is essential to product design and predicting market response to these new products. Choice-based conjoint analysis is widely used to model user…