Design guidelines towards humanization and Artificial Intelligence in the Intensive Care Unit

This report describes a graduation project for the MSc program Strategic Product Design. The client in this project is the Erasmus MC in the Netherlands and commissions this project incorporation with the Critical Alarms Lab (CAL) of the TU Delft. The Erasmus MC and CAL want to improve the experience of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) both for...

Design for refurbishment of child car seats – Towards circular safety critical products

This graduation project investigates the challenges of designing a safety critical consumer product suitable for the refurbishment loop of the circular economy through a case study on child car seats. Currently when child car seats are reused or resold on the second-hand market, their safety cannot be guaranteed as it is unknown whether the...

A perfect fit: creating supportive housing for the autistic

In contemporary society, a large part of the housing stock for people with autism focuses on living with house mates and in-house support (Berger et al., 2005). It seems, through several extensive questionnaires, that 65% of those individuals seek another housing situation, namely independent housing of some sort (Begeer et al., 2013). Design of...

Parameter study of velocity damped vibration energy harvesters

Existing research on vibration energy harvesting is often limited to two-parameter optimizations and single-frequency operation. In this paper a parameter study is performed on the four major design parameters of velocity-damped vibration energy harvesters in low frequency and wide bandwidth operation. The study is based on electromagnetic...

Product Design for a Circular Economy: A case study towards a circular luminaire

In general the majority of the current economy is a linear economy based on a ‘take-make-dispose” model that relies on easily accessible resources and energy. This creates huge amounts of waste at end of life impacting nature and society. Furthermore resource scarcity is increasingly becoming an issue impacting price and availability of products...

Developing a mobile device for a Circular Economy

E-waste, price volatility of resources and the constant increase of the middle class world population expecting the same ‘high quality’ life standards have (amongst other) made some companies consider their options. In the reports of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, one aspect of the circular economy model aims at decoupling sales revenues from...

Building applications for mobile devices that will support business processes involving SAP

To support employees in carrying out their business processes, companies often use Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems to support these processes, and simultaneously control these processes. Meanwhile mobile devices are more and more embedded in people’s life and way of working. Building applications for these mobile devices that will...

Reconnecting the public transport city: Towards a synergetic regeneration of the urban public transport system in the socio-spatial fabric of Vinex neighbourhoods

Project background This graduation project is performed to gain a grasp on the relationship between public transport system investments and urban development and regeneration. In what way do they influence each other, how can they benefit from each other and what conditions are necessary to create this sort synergetic relationship? A framework...