A Bathhouse and a library in Sultangazi, Istanbul: Hidden spaces - beyond dimensions: A research on the correlation between the composition of “space”, sensation, and the “Power of Architecture”.

According to the Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries, the notion of “space” can be read in several ways, of what is the five general understandings of it would be: outside earth’s atmosphere, empty area, period, freedom, and lastly, where things exist/move. With the speed, amount of information, and technology we are currently facing in the 21st...

Gender bias in word embeddings of different languages

Word embeddings are useful for various applications, such as sentiment classification (Tang et al., 2014), word translation (Xing, Wang, Liu, & Lin, 2015) and résumé parsing (Nasser, Sreejith, & Irshad, 2018). Previous research has determined that word embeddings contain gender bias, which can be problematic in certain applications such...

Cracks in the language of architecture: an anti-architectural manifesto

ASSUMPTIONS<br/><br/>Still quite far away from visiting the city of interest, Bucharest, a model was the means to subsume personal stories I heard from friends, media reports and interviews as well as resulting subjective expectations on the trip. At the same time it led to the assumption, that all of these stories, but also historical events,...

Extending Alan-DB: Designing a DBMS for storing and retrieving typed, rooted graph-based data on disk

TOM: A wearable robot that supports learning language

TOM is a small wearable robot - that helps foreign students to learn Dutch . In the Netherlands, it's common to speak English to foreigners, this causes them not to speak and practice Dutch. TOM - the Dutch abbreviation of Language Practice Buddy - a robot that can be worn around the neck tries to change this. It has an face recognition program,...

An interactive library tool for enhancing language engagement of adolescents

This thesis is the final documentation of a graduation assignment titled ‘Designing an interactive library tool for enhancing language engagement of adolescents’ - completion of the Design for Interaction master programme at Delft University of Technology. This project is executed in collaboration with DOKLAB and DOK Library Delft.

LINKX, a language toy for autistic toddlers developed in co-creation with parents and pedagogues

This master thesis shows the design process of LINKX, a language toy for children with a disorder in the spectrum of autism. Children with autism have an inborn brain disorder and therefore play and learn differently than children with 'typical' development. Language and speech of children with autism develops slowly or not at all. These...