Co Art AI Interactive Place by Wan Xi, Shen Zuyu, Zhao Xu, Yang Zhi and Tan Cong Wins the Silver A' Design Award in Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design

Wan Xi, Shen Zuyu, Zhao Xu, Yang Zhi and Tan Cong honored for interface, interaction and user experience design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition

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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Co Art AI Interactive Place by Wan Xi, Shen Zuyu, Zhao Xu, Yang Zhi and Tan Cong, designed for Lenovo Research, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design category. The result belongs to the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.

What the Silver A' Design Award Means

The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.

More About Co Art AI Interactive Place

Co Art is an interactive installation that lets visitors create art together with artificial intelligence. The system is driven by neural network algorithms and connects people to the digital world. A ring of light guides the visitor to place a hand inside the blue interactive area and to speak. The spoken words are then converted into an imaginative artwork. The device measures 1501 by 697 by 420 millimetres and is used in a standing position. Co Art gives visitors the role of the artist and offers an unusual exhibition experience.

About Wan Xi, Shen Zuyu, Zhao Xu, Yang Zhi and Tan Cong

I am a designer with over 12 years of work experience in China. I had experienced different areas of design, including industrial design, brand design, UX design and AI design. These cross-experiences inspired me a lot when I started incubating new ones. I like to share and communicate the AI ability with people, hope to give them new imagination, which will inspire me more in the future.

Award Record

This recognition makes Wan Xi, Shen Zuyu, Zhao Xu, Yang Zhi and Tan Cong a winner of 1 A' Design Award.

About the A' Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design Award

The A' Interface Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good user interface designs by the best UI/UX designers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interface designers, interaction designers, user experience designers and digital product designers from all countries. Entries typically include websites, mobile applications, software interfaces, game interfaces, wearable interfaces and virtual reality interfaces. Awarded interface designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/interface

About A' Design Award & Competition

A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com

Press Resources

Winner Page: https://designers.org/139800
A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/139800
Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!139800
Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/228861
Further Information from the Laureate: http://xiaohui.ai/device

Media Contact

Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
Designers.Org
Via Leone Leoni 32, 22100 Como, Italy
press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project: Co Art AI Interactive Place
Function: AI Interactive Place
Category: Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design
Discipline: Communication Design
Industry: Software
Colors: Dark Slate Gray, Midnight Blue, Dark Slate Blue, Dim Gray and Black
Images: 5
Client: Lenovo Research

The Recognition

Laureate: Wan Xi, Shen Zuyu, Zhao Xu, Yang Zhi and Tan Cong
Country: China
Recognition: Silver A' Design Award
Edition: 2021 - 2022
Design ID: #139800

Credits

Team: Wan Xi, Shen Zuyu, Zhao Xu, Yang Zhi and Tan Cong

Design Details

Unique Properties: Co Art is an all-new physical space for humans to co-create art with artificial intelligence. The magic Light is an interactive device enabled by neural network algorithms, and capable of connecting humans to the digital world. When a ring of light appears around the device, put a hand through it, and speak. The device will listen to, and understand you, and turn what you have just said into a piece of imaginative artwork. This is a brand-new, interactive way to create art, providing visitors with an opportunity to swap roles with artists, and deliver unusual experiences at exhibitions.
Inspiration: With the pressure of a fast pace, people engaged in creative design work face the problem of imagination depletion. Co Art will convert words into imaginative artwork, and inspire humans to further explore the boundary of artistic imagination.
Research: AI design is one of the most popular technology in today's design trends. We hope to find new interaction way to encouraged user to have a dialogue with the A.I. imagination engine to create artwork together.
Challenge: The most challenge for the project is to realize the new way of interaction. We need to learn lots of knowledge about how to build the input and output modules for the device. We tested many times for the interaction to make sure the steady running. Finally it woks well in the exhibition.
Realization and Technology: For the implementation of algorithms ,there are two passes in this process. We push a latent through the generative model to produce an image. Then pass the image to CLIP’s image embedder to measure the images’ similarity with the text prompt. Then we backpropagate through CLIP and the generative model, all the way back to the latent vector, and then use gradient ascent to update the latent, bringing the image slightly closer to matching with the text prompt. Repeat forward and backward passes until convergence. For the hardware part,Take use of Arduino mega 32 to connect the sensor and control pannel.
Operation and Interaction: Through its halo, people will be guided to place their hands into the interactive blue area, and it also encouraged them to have a dialogue with the A.I. imagination engine to create artwork together.
Project Duration and Location: Co Art participated in Beijing International Design Week in September 2021 and got good interactive feedback from the audience. I
Specifications: The dimension of the magic light: 1501*697* 420 mm It is suitable for people stand-using, with graceful and streamlined design language, which will convey a sense of technology and affinity.
Keywords: AI, New interaction, Imagination , Art-work, Magic, Intelligence ，Co Art