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Van Roosmalen, S.B.W. (author)Philips Consumer Lifestyle in Drachten makes numerous meaningful innovations a year. In the field of wet floor cleaners (combination of mop and vacuum cleaner), Philips has developed a high-end product. To complete the range, the graduation student is asked to develop a low-end wet floor cleaner. Before a product is developed, it is essential to...master thesis 2012
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Gouwetor, F.J. (author)This graduation project is a design for an Islamic community centre and prayerspace in New York City, called Park51. The design is an 80 meter high complex surrounded by buildings on three sides. The front facade is situated at a small street in downtown Manhattan (Park Place 51), two blocks remote from Ground Zero. It houses various rooms for...master thesis 2012
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Van Meir, S.L.O. (author)In recent years, innovations like Smartphones, 3G (wireless Internet), and social media have entered the Dutch market. These innovations lead to brand transparency because they give customers access to brand related information and and allow them share that information amongst each other. Loyal customers therefore might be tempted to consider...master thesis 2012
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Van der Male, J.A. (author)This project is about finding the "ideal" studio conditions for design education. The research describes the basic needs for accommodating design education through studio spaces. The final design of the project is a new building for the faculty of Architecture. It can be seen as a late submission for the contest "building for Bouwkunde" which...master thesis 2012
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Wijnen, T.J. (author)A strategy does not last forever. For companies it is recommended to analyze and renew their policy continuously. A company which is renewing its strategies and themselves is BR-ND. This company executes strategy transformations at an emotive (based on emotion) level. BR-ND has learned in their work that the support of the stakeholders of a...master thesis 2012
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Wang, X. (author)Compared with people with normal vision, blind and visually impaired people (B&VI) suffer from not only limited accessibility to public buildings but also poor experience of these buildings. However, the keen senses of sound and touch of B&VI, which are honed through daily practice and compensated by the loss of vision in brain, could be...master thesis 2012
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Tsang, W.M.C. (author)This graduation project is a collaboration between Music Library Rotterdam (in Dutch: Centrale Discotheek Rotterdam (CDR)) and Delft University of Technology, faculty of Industrial Design Engineering to improve the quality of music education at primary schools in The Netherlands. The aim is to make the music collection of CDR accessible and...master thesis 2011
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Klinkert, R.J. (author)Chard Safety is a Dutch company founded in 2005 and focusing on automotive crash safety systems. The most important ongoing project is the Deceleration Responsive Seat (DRS) concept, also called “The Albatross”. The concept is an unique automotive seat which provides safety and comfort aspects. Due to the innovative construction, there is...master thesis 2011
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Soekhoe, R.N. (author)The master thesis show the design process and presentation of the design for a construction that allows for pv-panels to be integrated in dam or dike walls.master thesis 2011
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Bohlander, L.A. (author)Nowadays, when someone is diagnosed with a traumatic unstable spinal fracture, the spine is fixated by surgery and the patient is prescribed to wear a corset brace for 8 to 12 weeks. The two most used corset braces are the lumbar and the thoracic corset brace. These corset braces are highly uncomfortable and prevents the patient from almost...master thesis 2011
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Jacobse, B.A. (author)This report describes the results of a graduation project to design an ice skate featuring a dynamic bend in the blade in the lateral direction. To start an analysis was carried out in order to gain an understanding of the problems experienced with currently used ice skates in long track speed skating. It turned out that while conventional ice...master thesis 2011
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Jo, Y. (author)A design study was carried out for the development of data/power transmission interface of Robert Bosch Healthcare’s telehealth products for elderly care. The scope of the project included the redesign of data/power transmission interface of an existing activity monitoring system (MoMo) and a complete new design of a wireless telehealth platform...master thesis 2011
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Siegers, J.C. (author)In the Netherlands, every year 200.000 pupils make the transition from primary to secondary education. Selecting a secondary school is no longer as ‘simple’ as finding a school with the same religious views. Pupils and parents want to know more information about schools, like quality and atmosphere. Some of them have easy access to information,...master thesis 2011
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Chi, H. (author)This report describes the graduation project of Hengfeng Chi, a master student of Inte- grated Product Design at the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering TU Delft. The project is to design an urban wind turbine with appreciated appearance in the context of coastal area in Scheveningen, in collaboration with Actiflow BV. The project consists...master thesis 2011
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Ingenegeren, R.A.C. (author)Even though the Econova television of Philips has proved to be the best holistic environmentally friendly television, with an extremely low energy usage, it could still be improved by using lower impact materials. The eco-impact of printed circuit boards remains a main area worthy of further study. A first step is made in the direction of a...master thesis 2011
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Kieskamp, E. (author)In the future of 2025 several themes will define the city context. As more and more people move towards the city they feed the process of segregation. Separated groups of people are living together in one area, but without any feeling of a city community. The growing dominance of wireless communication and information has made it possible for...master thesis 2011
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Golde, T.A. (author)In the last thirty years, many new surgical methods and techniques such as laparoscopic surgery and natural orifice surgery have been introduced into hospitals worldwide. As these technologies have progressed, surgical instruments have become increasingly more complex and also much more difficult to clean and sterilize. In this paper, one such...master thesis 2011
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Ho Si, K. (author)The way we work is changing dramatically as a result, work trends are developing suchs as New Ways of Work (NWW), Flexible Work and the increase of teleworkers. These trends have in common that the workplace is shifting towards the home environment. According to the 'Nationale Enquête Arbeidsomstandigheden 2011' there are one million dutch...master thesis 2011
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Chan, M.K. (author)This report describes the process of designing a soap dispenser for children to improve hand hygiene at child day care centers. This project is part of project ‘‘Heel gewoon, Handen schoon’’, a cooperation project of Erasmus MC and GGD Rotterdam-Rijnmond. The aim of that project is to reduce the number of infections among children by improving...master thesis 2011
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Massink, T.J. (author)Introduction An often-recurring subject in branding assignments in the Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) packaging industry is ‘what is “premium.”’ Marketing and Brand Managers of FMCG brands brief packaging designers (such as Cartils, see paragraph 1.2) that their new packaging must have a premium character. Although one might have an idea of...master thesis 2011