Personalization in Game Design for Healthcare: A Literature Review on its Definitions and Effects

Personalization, the involvement of stakeholders in the design process, is often applied in serious game design for health. It is expected to enhance the alignment of a game to the preferences and capacities of the end-user, thereby increasing the end-user’s motivation to interact with the game, which finally might enhance the aimed-for health...

Making hospitals more hospitable: designing new coffee systems for the hospital context

Health Care is gaining attention in the public debate, because our greying society leads to ever increasing costs and includes a labour force that is not capable of dealing with the increasing amount of people that require health support. This development is putting pressure on society in economic, but also social terms. Privatization processes...

Strategy for sustainable OLED textile development, demonstrated through applicable concepts

This graduation project has been executed in cooperation with Philips Research and Holst Centre, within the Platform for Large Area Conformable Electronics by InTegration (PLACE-it) project. The scope of the project is to identify required developments for OLED textile, to fulfill the needs of future users and minimise the environmental impact....

Slimmer Zwanger: An interactive tool for stimulating a healthy diet pattern

This master thesis shows the result of the development of an e-health tool that is targeted to future pregnant couples. The objective was to stimulate a healthy dietary pattern and lifestyle in order to create the optimal circumstances before, during and after conception. The tool is a web application that continues on the current measures for...

Stimulating Energy Balance: Preventing weight gain among healthy young adults

Obesity is a problem. A problem that is easy to see on the streets and well covered in the media, yet it continues to grow. Why is that people are not able to maintain a healthy balance between diet and exercise and keep a consistent weight? Are it the fast food restaurants or the increasingly passive lifestyles of the Western world, or a...