The College of Digital Design, STUST held the 8th International Conference on Innovation Digital Design online on May 27. This international conference was hosted by the College of Digital Design, STUST. Undertaken by the Department of Visual Communication Design and co-organized by Taiwan Society of Technology and Arts, it was kicked off by President Deng-maw Lu of STUST with a speech. During the conference, Prof. Zhi-shuan Li of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology and Prof. Da-hua Liang of Sydney University of Science and Technology, Australia, were invited as keynote speakers.

[The poster of the 2022 International Symposium on Innovative Digital Design, held by The College of Digital Design, STUST]

The theme of this symposium was "The Internet of Things and the New Model of the Future of Digital Media. There were six sub-topics, namely, "Theory and Development of Digital Design," "Development and Application of Innovative Technology," "Digital Creation of Art and Culture," "Innovative Product Design and Practice," "Technology Art and Video Aesthetics," and "Media and Design Related Issues." The event included two international keynote speeches, together with a total of 12 presentations of 51 academic oral papers and 73 poster papers. The content was rich and diverse, especially in the fields of Internet of Things technology and moving image aesthetics, which aroused heated discussions. It fully demonstrated the researchers' forward-looking views on interactive design and digital media trends in contemporary times, as well as related aesthetic thinking in technology, video, and art; at the same time. It also pays attention to design innovations in the post-pandemic era, as well as new ideas for the concept of the metaverse.

[The Online situation of the 2022 International Symposium on Innovative Digital Design, held by The College of Digital Design, STUST]

Prof. Ji-hyun Lee, who is currently the director of the Arts and Culture Department of the National Research Foundation of Korea, specializes in computational design and urban informatics and has great academic influence. In his speech “Placemaking in Urban Informatics,” The future of smart living and city planning was speculated and imagined. Prof. Da-hua Liang specializes in interactive design and user experience design. For many years, his research has been focused on exploring how digital technology can improve user experience. In his speech "Human-Oriented Internet of Things and Beyond," he not only brought forth contemporary humanistic thinking about the development of interactive design, but also advocated a wider range of cross-disciplinary design cooperation in response to the environmental reflection issues and current challenges on how humans should improve the environment in order to jointly create the Internet of Things. Their speeches created a vision of future for the benefit of all attendees.

[The online situation of the 2022 International Symposium on Innovative Digital Design, held by The College of Digital Design, STUST]

Deng-maw Lu, President of STUST, said that this conference invited experts and scholars from various fields of digital design to gather together to communicate from the perspective of academic and industrial practice. Concerning contemporary issues, they jointly published the most cutting-edge research applications. He hoped that the relevant results would be helpful to the research and application of technology media and digital design. This year the symposium not only solicited general academic papers but also included practical creative reports. This indicated that forward-looking design trends not only need to incorporate digital and innovative concepts, but also require equal emphasis on basic theory and applied practice. This conference collected 124 relevant papers and reports. A total of 31 teachers, students, and professionals from 31 universities and institutions submitted their manuscripts to discuss the latest innovations. It is hoped that through different perspectives, the participating design and production can made specific contributions to the development of digital design and technology industries.