Design a sustainable and future proof service-portfolio roadmap for I-Plus to adopt future technological and innovative developments in the next 5 years

In the world of communication a lot of developments are emerging and consumers have the need for faster communication. There are increasingly more ways of communicating with each other and the developments for these new ways of communicating are not stopping. What will be the way of communicating in the upcoming five years? That is a question...

Design of a social context aware communication application

What could be the potential of integrating social networking & intelligent services that analyse user activity in communication products? Alcatel- Lucent would like to have a concept of the user experience on different products that demonstrates the possible benefits of this marriage. The personal information and interpersonal relationships...

Communication in Goal Oriented Agents

In this thesis the agent programming language GOAL is extended with communication. For GOAL we pur- sue an implementation that has a well-founded theory as well as providing pragmatic programming constructs for the programmer. Existing technologies are reviewed to explore their approaches. Many of these technolo- gies have Speech-act theory as...

Creating the perfect outdoor game experience

What if you mix (indoor) gaming with outdoor play? Nowadays children spend much more time indoor instead of outside, playing with friends. Outdoor play is good for both physical as mental development of children, and this problem was the foundation of this design project. Two years ago the idea was risen by Auke Ferwerda to develop an outdoor...

Involvement & Mutual Understanding in the design process of the patient rooms

This thesis describes a process to accomplish the following goal; to enhance the communication between stakeholders during the design process of the patient’s room en thereby improving the patient’s room interior design to the advantage of all stakeholders. An explorative research was done, in the form of literature studies, observations and...

Radio Wave Propagation in Metal Train Compartments

Wireless sensor networks are being deployed extensively to collect sensory data in various environments under different conditions. A wireless sensor network consists of multiple nodes, each with the ability to communicate using radio waves. The characteristics of the radio link between nodes are largely influenced by their environment. For...

Future mobile communication concept

The project was conducted during 2001 at the Sony-Ericsson Design Centre in Lund, Sweden. The goal was to explore a possible future of mobile communication, based on the fact that every human being is special and unique. It is the diversity of mankind that makes communication worthwhile and rewarding. The goal is achieved by building a vision...

Communicatie: Om problemen te voorkomen en op te lossen in de projectorganisatie

Dit afstudeerwerk is een verkennend onderzoek naar de rol van communicatie op projecten bij een grote aannemer. Is het mogelijk de prestatie van een projectorganisatie te verbeteren door de communicatie te verbeteren? In het begin van het onderzoek is de filosofie geweest een directe koppeling te vinden tussen het optreden van een fout of...