Meng Li, Y Li, Chenyang He, Houxiang Wang, Jiaqian Zhong, Shengxin Jiang, Mingtao He, Zhining Qiao, Jiawang Chen, Yuan Yin, Ray Lc, Ji Han, Zengyao Yang, Mohammad Shidujaman
Sustainable Development Goals are currently universal objectives in all domains of engineering. Nevertheless, design for this global mission is exceedingly intricate and nearly surpasses the limits of human capability. Industrial and academic communities have devoted considerable of effort to developing new technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), as new design tools. Generative AI is the latest advancement among these tools, which can empower human designers with its capability to process massive amount of data from diverse sources and recast it in a comprehensible form. Despite the heated discussion on the relationship between creative innovation and frontier technologies, little attention has been paid to empowering young designers with the new skills of the AI era. Therefore, this study conducted a two-week design workshop to explore the interaction between generative AI tools and novice designers, especially in shaping their AI self-efficacy and design thinking process of novice designers.