This study examines group differences in AI dependence, self-efficacy, and design fixation based on learners’ AI utilization experience, and further explores the relationships between AI dependence and perception-related variables within an AI-based design education context. To this end, I surveyed 42 learners who participated in an AI-based design class. I then performed data analysis in IBM SPSS Statistics 26, using one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Pearson correlation. The ANOVA revealed statistically significant group differences in AI dependence by AI usage level, but no significant differences in self-efficacy or design fixation. Furthermore, age and professional experience showed no significant influence on most variables. Meanwhile, the correlation analysis revealed that AI dependence was significantly positively associated with design fixation, but not with self-efficacy. These results suggest that, in AI-based design education, learners’ perceptions and attitudes are not strongly differentiated by personal background factors such as age or professional experience, but are instead associated with their experience with AI use and perceived dependence on AI. By distinguishing and analyzing AI utilization and AI dependence, this study provides empirical evidence that contributes to a more nuanced understanding of learners’ cognitive perceptions in AI-based design education in practice.

This research is intended to extrapolate the environmental problem caused by the flower fixation design materials and to find a solution by enabling ecological flower designing through discovering environment friendly materials that fix the flowers and analyzing their utilizations. Such use of pro-environmental materials shall lead changes in awareness among the professional florists as well as the consumers. The result of analyzing 67 flower works produced by the environment friendly flower fixation materials is as follows: 1) The design makes the most use of natural characteristics of the original plants used. 2) The pro-environmental materials were minimized to it functional usage, yet visual beautification was emphasized to make the design harmonized. 3) The design showed excellent coordination with vases. The vase was selected to match the color and shape of the flowers contained in it. This allows the vase to be included as part of the overall design of the work. The 67 flower design works reviewed in this research reveal a common design tendency: the environment friendly fixation materials not only were functionally solid, environmentally safe and recyclable but also played outstanding role as visually beautiful design element. This indeed is a revolutionary finding that could impact on the future of the flower design as a whole.