A matter of touch - Designing clothing to address touch deprivation among young adults

Touch deprivation, a largely unrecognized phenomenon that affects approximately 54% of people globally, has a significant negative impact on the well-being of these individuals. Having physical connections is a fundamental part of the human experience whether it is a warm hug from a loved one or a comforting pat on the shoulder. However,...

A Conversational Agent for Stress First Aid: Mental Well-being Awareness for Police Officers

Police officers are exposed to many potentially traumatising and stressful situations, but they do not always find the right mental health help they need. In this thesis, conversational agent Robyn is developed to help officers keep an eye on their mental well-being and find help when needed. An evaluation approach is also presented. The...

Improving the wayfinding to the commercial services at Schiphol: Supporting passengers to explore the surroundings of the airport autonomously

This thesis has the goal to improve the commercial wayfinding at Schiphol. Commercial wayfinding entails tertiary wayfinding activities, which are not related to the travel process (shopping, eating/drinking, relaxing), whereas functional wayfinding gives information about passenger activities related to the airport process. Individuals can find...

Sounds of Surgeries: Design for health behavior change in the soundscape of orthopedic operating theaters

<b>Noise in orthopedic operating theaters The medical staff working in orthopedic operating theaters are often exposed to significant noise generated by many simultaneous sound events (e.g. powered tools, alarms) that pose a risk to their health and well-being. This thesis focuses on their health behaviors associated with...

Towards a Digitised Era

We have entered a new époque, transforming our societies from the mechanical to the digital. This unlocks a lot of new opportunities and abilities, but also results into big societal and behavioural changes, which need to be addressed in our built environment. Architecture seems to have disappeared on the background, while technological...

Perspectives on Cyber Security: Managerial perspectives on cyber security and the role of end user awareness

Empowering seniors: Design of a tool to support elderly patients and their care network

Research showed how important it is for seniors to feel independent. During the ageing process, seniors go through several events that have great impact on both their physical wellbeing but also on their mental and subjective wellbeing. Leading the senior to feel insecure and sometimes even feel down. One of those events are falls. Falls can...

Bebé: Design of an incentive for pregnant couples to live healthy

This Master thesis describes the creation of Bebé: a design of an incentive for pregnant couples to live and eat healthy. This project was commissioned by the department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the Erasmus Medical Centre (MC) in Rotterdam, and executed as the final project of the Master Integrated Product Design at the Delft University...

Decision-making based on measurements of behavioural safety - An explorative study into using Situation Awareness measurements for a specific problem as input to system-level decisions.

ProRail is trying to increase the capacity of the rail infrastructure since the need for capacity is still growing. One of the ways to do this is by implementing DDDR (Dynamic double non-interrupted braking), which is part of the DSSU project. By implementing DDDR the expectations of the status of the signs of the train drivers might change....

Creating drinking water awareness at Into the Great Wide Open

This master thesis is focused on delivering a new drinking water experience, with the aim of creating pro-environmental awareness at Into the Great Wide Open (ITGWO), a music festival based in Vlieland. Water is essential for life, and there are many problems related to it that have to be solved in order to ensure drinking water to the future...

In the Loop: Design of a Serious Game to Create Awareness about Critical Raw Materials

This masters’ thesis is the result of research conducted on companies and critical raw materials in 2012 by TU Delft and the FME-CWM Association. The FME is the largest representative body for the Dutch technological industry and aims to support their member companies. As the result of the 2012 study showed a lack of awareness in their member...

Energy awareness in public space design

The hereby thesis research has been developed within the Graduation Studio “Energy Landscapes”. The Graduation Studio aimed to be a research-by-design investigation into the spatial implications of the energy issue. The objective was to guide thesis projects that could offer new sustainable energy landscapes, visualized in a combination of...

Increasing adherence of medication by supporting self-management

Yearly 5.6% of all hospitalization in the Netherlands are caused by improper use of medication. 46% of these hospitalizations (19,000) could be avoided, which could save 85 million euro each year. One of the forms of improper use is medication non-adherence, which means taking the medication not as prescribed (prescribed dosage and moment of the...

Recycling Plastics in Costa Rica: Creating Environmental Awareness through Strategic Brand and Product Design

This Master thesis shows how to create environmental awareness through the use of strategic brand and product design in the country of Costa Rica. An adaptation of the Delft Innovation Model has been constructed to determine the strategy for a new company. Using this model, the external factors (environment) can be analysed and the internal...

A Human Powered Fitness Bicycle: Generating electricity in fitness clubs

On the initiative of Michael Weber, a cooperation has started between the Delft University of Technology (Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, department Design of Sustainability), the Rotterdam Climate Initiative and Creditz (Michael Weber). Together they have set the goal to reduce the energy needs of fitness clubs by utilizing human...