The 2024 International Symposium on Design Studies and Intelligence Engineering (DSIE-2024) was held in Hangzhou, China on 21 and 22 December 2024. The conference provided a platform for professionals and researchers from industry and academia to present and discuss recent advances in the field of design studies and intelligence engineering.

The technologies applied in design studies vary from basic theories to more application-based systems. Intelligent engineering also plays a significant role in design science in areas such as computer-aided industrial design, human-factor design, and greenhouse design. Intelligent engineering technologies also include topics from both theoretical and application perspectives, such as computational technologies, sensing technologies, and video detection. This conference aims to promote cooperation between the industries and universities involved in these fields. Renowned professors from around the world were invited to speak on these topics in greater depth, and to discuss in-depth research directions with other participants.

We received 498 submissions online for the conference, all of which were reviewed by three or four independent experts. Based on the reviewers’ comments, we accepted 157 papers for publication in this book. We believe that this conference will foster cooperation among organizations and researchers involved in these converging fields.

DSIE 2024 was sponsored by Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, and co-sponsored by Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society-Industrial Design, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Techno India College of Technology, Chinese Academy of Art, and Xiamen University of Technology.

We would like to thank all contributors for their efforts in submitting their manuscripts on time. We would also like to express our gratitude to the reviewers for their contribution and to Mr. Maarten Fröhlich of IOS Press for accepting this volume for publication, as well as his colleagues for their efforts during the publishing process of the volume.

Lakhmi C. Jain

Valentina Emilia Balas

Qun Wu

Fuqian Shi