From Concept to Framework: Construction of Evaluation Index Framework for Intelligent Home Appliance Design under the Context of AIGC

With the development of artificial intelligence, the production method of automatically generating content using AI technology has been continuously evolving. AI-generated content (AIGC) has rapidly emerged and plays a significant role in the design and development of smart home appliances. However, there hasn't been a systematic discussion on the evaluation index framework for smart home appliance design under the influence of AIGC. In this study, based on the popularity and essentiality of home appliance categories, we selected washing machines as the research object. With a research time span from 1980 to 2023, we conducted a systematic review of 427 publications and analyzed 52 core articles. Through the extraction of high-frequency vocabulary related to design evaluation in the literature, we obtained multiple key evaluation index keywords. By combining user interviews, expert interviews, and focus group experiments, we summarized the key evaluation index keywords and found that the design evaluation can be conducted from three dimensions: form, function, and experience. Based on this framework, we further categorized and classified the involved indicator items into hierarchies and categories, forming a design evaluation index framework to guide designers in their work.