Envisioning athletics design: The new take-off board

Athletics is the sport that arguably requires the highest number of sundry, dedicated products in the world - a complete competition requires at least 55 different pieces of equipment. These products have to uphold the highest standards, sometimes literally; however, every single product has its shortcomings that reflect back on the quality,...

Wearable feedback on sports performance

This report describes the process of designing the Globus, a smart shirt that measures that back posture will working out by measuring the stretch in the shirt and uses vibration to give feedback to the user when they have an incorrect posture. A questionnaire has been carried out for this project which showed that fitness is the most practiced...

KiteSim: Designing a new interactive kite simulator

This report is written as a graduation thesis for the Master’s degree in Design for Interaction, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at the Delft University of Technology. It describes the process of researching, prototyping and evaluating a new interactive kite simulator, developed within a consortium of design firm Frank & Frens; the TU...