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2025

  • Yin, Y.*, Wang, B., Zuo, H., Liu, R., Vohra, S. I., Haydon-Rowe, S., & Childs, P. R. (2025). Abilities of design professors to distinguish design assignments generated by students and AI. Proceedings of the Design Society 25th International Conference on Engineering Design(ICED 2025),5, 319-328.
  • Kortenbach, T., Yin, Y., Gonçalves, M. G., Price, R. A., & Wang, P. (2025). The relation between humans and LLMs in the creative act. Journal of Creativity, 100114.
  • Wang, B., Han, J., Zhao, X., Yin, Y., Chen, L., & Childs, P. (2025). Creative Combinational Design through Generative AI in Different Dimensional Representations: An Exploration. Design and Artificial Intelligence, 100006.
  • Chen, L., Song, Y., Guo, J., Sun, L., Childs, P., & Yin, Y*. (2025). How generative AI supports human in conceptual design. Design Science, 11, e9.
  • Zuo, H., Yin, Y., Zhan, B., Liu, R., Wang, B., Cai, Z., ... & Childs, P. (2025, August). Digital Learning Platforms for Intangible Cultural Heritage in Design Education. In International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (Vol. 89244, p. V004T04A009). American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
  • Yin, Y., Zuo, H., Jennings, T., Jain, S., Cartwright, B., Buhagiar, J., ... & Childs, P. (2025). Use and Potential of AI in Assisting Surveyors in Building Retrofit and Demolition—A Scoping Review. Buildings, 15(19), 3448.
  • Zuo, H., Yin, Y., Hazeri, K., Wang, B., Jennings, T., Buhagiar, J., ... & Childs, P. (2025, July). Automating Operations and Maintenance Manual Data Extraction for Retrofit Applications: Assessing GPT-4o’s Performance and Challenges. In International Retrofit Conference 2025 (p. 98).

2024

  • Yin, Y.*, & Childs, P. (2024). A study of cognitive factor sequences and relations to creativity quality levels. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 11(1), 1-19.
  • Yin, Y.*, Han, J., & Childs, P. R. (2024). An EEG study on artistic and engineering mindsets in students in creative processes. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 13364.
  • Yin, Y.*, Wang, B., Zuo, H., Childs, P. (2024) Effects of different human-in-the-loop approaches on human-AI co-design: a comparison between Human-learning HITL approach and Machine-learning HITL approach. In ASME 2024 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC-CIE2024). 
  • Li, Y., Zhang, Y., Yang, Y., Zihan, T., Hu, Z., Xie, C., Pan, Z., Chen, C., Qi, T., Zhu, Z., He, Q., Li, S., Yin, Y., Han, J., Childs, P., Cascini, G., Li, M. (2024). The Effects of Short-term Meditation on the Creativity of Novice Designers: A Pilot Design Task Study using TTCT-Figural Assessment. In: Evangelos Markopoulos, Ravindra S. Goonetilleke and Yan Luximon (eds) Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. AHFE (2024) International Conference. AHFE Open Access, vol 125. AHFE International, USA.http://doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1004720
  • Li, M., Li, Y., He, C., Wang, H., Zhong, J., Jiang, S., He, M., Qiao, Z., Chen, J., Yin, Y. and Lc, R. (2024, June). Generative AI for Sustainable Design: A Case Study in Design Education Practices. In International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 59-78). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
  • Chen, L., Zuo, H., Cai, Z., Yin, Y., Zhang, Y., Sun, L., Childs, P. and Wang, B., 2024. (2024). Towards Controllable Generative Design: A Conceptual Design Generation Approach Leveraging the FBS Ontology and Large Language Models. Journal of Mechanical Design, 1-40.
  • Chen, L., Song, Y., Sun, L., Childs, P., & Yin, Y.* (2024). Development of an exploratory creativity assessment scale. International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation, 1-17.

2023

  • Yin, Y.*, Zuo, H., & Childs, P. (2023). Impacts of Cognitive Factors on Creativity Quality in Design: Identification from Performances in Recall, Association and Combination. Journal of Intelligence, 11(2), 39.
  • Yin, Y., Zuo, H., & Childs, P. R.* (2023). An EEG-based method to decode cognitive factors in creative processes. AI EDAM, 37, e12.
  • Yin, Y.*, & Childs, P. (2023). RELATIONS BETWEEN COGNITIVE ABILITY AND CREATIVE DESIGN QUALITY. Proceedings of the Design Society. The 24th International Conference on Engineering Design, 3, 3055-3064.
  • Wang, B., Zuo, H., Cai, Z., Yin, Y., Childs, P., Sun, L., & Chen, L*. (2023, August). A Task-Decomposed AI-Aided Approach for Generative Conceptual Design. In International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (Vol. 87349, p. V006T06A009). American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

2022

  • Yin, Y., Qin, K., Liu, H., Childs, P., Sun, L., & Chen, L.* (2022, August). A Study of the Exploratory Creativity Performance Between Machine and Human Designers. In International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (Vol. 86267, p. V006T06A001). American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
  • Yin, Y., Wang, P., & Childs, P.* (2022). Understanding creativity process through electroencephalography measurement on creativity-related cognitive factors. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 16, 951272.
  • Yin, Y.*, Wang, P., Han, J., Zuo, H., & Childs, P. (2022, July). Comparing designers’ EEG activity characteristics for common association and remote association. In International Conference on-Design Computing and Cognition (pp. 255-267). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
  • Yin, Y.*, Vohra, S., Pan, W., & Childs, P. (2022) EEG activity during semantic and episodic memory retrieval in creative processes. THE 8TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON COGNITIVE NEURODYNAMICS (ICCN 2021).
  • Yin, Y.*, Hazeri, K., Vohra, S., Zuo, H., Huang, S., Zhan, B., & Childs, P. (2022). Using Creativity Levels as a Criterion for Rater Selection in Creativity Assessment. DS 118: Proceedings of NordDesign 2022, Copenhagen, Denmark, 16th-18th August 2022, 1-10.
  • Childs, P.*, Han, J., Chen, L., Jiang, P., Wang, P., Park, D., Yin, Y., Dieckmann, E., Vilanova, I. (2022) The Creativity Diamond - A Framework to Aid Idea-Generation. Journal of intelligence, 10(4), 73.
  • Yin, Y.* & Yu, Y. (2022) How self-report affects digital health-related behavior change and its potential broader application. Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. 12th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2021) and the Affiliated Conferences.
  • Yin, Y.* (2022) Perspective chapter: Future perspectives of intelligent autonomous vehicles. In H. T. Arat Eds, The Dynamics of Vehicles - Basics, Simulation and Autonomous Systems. IntechOpen.

2021

  • Yin, Y., Han, J., Huang, S., Zuo, H., & Childs, P*. (2021). A study on student: assessing four creativity assessment methods in product design. Proceedings of the Design Society, 1, 263-272.
  • Zuo, H., Yin, Y., & Childs, P*. (2021). Patent-KG: Patent Knowledge Graph Use for Engineering Design. arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.11899.
  • Yin, Y.*, & Yu, Y. (2021). Suggestions for behavior-intervention design practitioners: from behavior change motivations for Chinese aged 18 to 25. Proceedings of the Design Society, 1, 2781-2790.
  • Yuan, Y.*, & Yurong, Y. (2021, July).“IKnow”: Helping Those with Hearing Impairment Communicate Fluently. In International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (pp. 407-414). Springer, Cham.
  • Yuan, Y.*, Shu, H., Bowen, Z., & Haoyu, Z. (2021, July). ‘Easyi’-A New Toilet Seat Designed for Senior Adults to Prevent Them from Falling When Using the Toilet. In International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (pp. 493-498). Springer, Cham.

before 2020

  • Yuan, Y.*, Haoyu, Z., Shu, H., & Bowen, Z. (2020).The Gap between What The Designers Expected and What Target Users Could Provide in Co-creation. Design, Computer, Cognition 2020. Springer, Cham.
  • Yin, Y.* (2020). “Light On”: A Voice Controlled Vehicle-Light System Based on Translating Drives’ Voice into Computer Commands to Reduce Operation Workload of Drivers. In International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 408-416). Springer, Cham.
  • Yin, Y.* (2019). Analysis of factors influencing the fall of the elderly and the application research of medical aids. Heilongjiang Medical Journal in September to October edition