Making connections: Exploring value co-creation in service design projects

Ford is facing new competitors and changes in their market. To stay relevant, they have to deal with collaboration to solve complex problems, new technologies that enable new value propositions and a shift from products to services. Service design seemed like a promising approach to deal with those challenges and to come up with new services in...

Using clickstream data and representation learning to understand user interests in order to recommend vacations: Master Thesis at Vakanties.nl

Because of the transfer from brick-and-mortar stores to the web, tourism companies have had an increasing need for good recommendation systems to help the users of their websites find what they want. When developing a recommendation system for tourism, we run into a couple of problems that we would not run into when developing it for e-commerce....

Concept design and feasibility study of an entirely battery powered naval submarine

This thesis describes a feasibility study of an entirely battery powered submarine. An entirely battery powered submarine will be air independent, which will provide the submarine tactical advantages. The feasibility is investigated by the creation of a concept design and by performing an operational capability study. <br/><br/>Implementing an...

Connected in the neighbourhood: Enhancing social interaction in the built environment by spatial design The case of Overvecht in Utrecht

Attenuating vibrations with negative stiffness

Many high-tech equipment demands a vibration free environment and can only operate at vibration levels much lower than typical ground vibrations. This high level of vibration isolation is difficult to achieve with conventional suspension solutions, especially in the range of low frequencies in the order of 1 Hz. The goal of the Kolibri project...

Plastische deformatie in hard gewalst koper