Cooking with Dementia: Iteratively designing a guide to help people with dementia through a cooking activity.

People with dementia often quit cooking early on in their illness because it is too complex, tiring, or frustrating. With mild dementia, people struggle with planning and figuring out the order of the cooking steps. Also, they find it challenging to stay focussed on the tasks at hand. Furthermore, their short-term memory causes them to struggle...

Development and evaluation of an intuitive seat adjustment system for trucks and off-road vehicles

Grammer is a manufacturer of, amongst others, seating systems for trucks and off-road vehicles (agricultural, construction, and material moving). Their most advanced products may offer up to 15 adjustable features to accommodate every user optimally. At the present, these features are controlled by a mixture of mechanical, pneumatic and...

Port Design - Nador

Along the northern coast of Morocco order has been given for the construction of a large transshipment port in the Mediterranean Sea, at a designated project location around the city of Nador. On this green-field coastal stretch a new transhipment port will have to be developed for various types of cargo. Throughputs of the terminals will have...

WAYS to study and research urban, architectural and technical design

This methodological book describes eight forms of study and research as they relate to design: 1) naming and describing; 2) design research and typology; 3) evaluating; 4) modelling; 5) programming and optimising; 6) technical study; 7) design study; 8) study by design. It includes the views, design related research projects and research methods...