Design the Next-generation Atrial Fibrillation Diagnosis Device: An off-hospital, continuous, long-term heart monitoring product

This is a 5-month master graduation project in collaboration with Praxa Sense to design the next generation Atrial Fibrillation diagnosis device. A long-term (more than one month) continuous, off-hospital diagnosis device is designed with the focus on user experience and diagnosis accuracy. There are several phases in this project including...

Design of a multidimensional digital system to enhance self-management in cardiovascular risk prevention programs

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the leading cause of death worldwide. While metabolic factors such as age and gender affect greatly, most of the CV events can be prevented by addressing behavioural risk factors such as physical inactivity, smoking or bad diet.<br/><br/>CV prevention programs aim to reduce the burden of these conditions by...

Redesign of a rehabilitation tool for hip patients based on patient profiling

This graduation project has been carried out in the context of the research project ‘Tailored Healthcare through Customer Profiling’ at the TU Delft, in collaboration with hospital Reinier de Graaf Group in Delft, and medical device company Zimmer Biomet. Together we focus in this project on the rehabilitation journey after total hip replacement...

Dementia and Design: Working towards improving quality of life for nursing home patients with dementia

Over the world, the amount of patients with dementia is increasing every year. In the Netherlands this amount is already growing to 1 out of 5 people suffering from dementia. This is due to better diagnosis and the aging generation. <br/><br/>Nevertheless, there still has not been found a solution to cure this disease. This means that a closer...

User-centered Design of a Heart Rate Camera for Athlete Swimmers

Executive Summary This summary shows the “reason to believe in”, and the design process of the Vital Signs Camera (Visica) for athlete swimmers. This is a complete product development project for Philips Research and is my graduation project for the Msc program Integrated Product Design from the faculty Industrial Design at the Delft University...