Examining the effect of culture and behavior on the implementation of Enterprise Risk Management at a Dutch construction company

Since the financial crisis of 2007, construction companies in the Netherlands have seen shrinking profit margins, due to for instance project and process success criteria that have been extended beyond economic objectives to include environmental and social requirements, increasing stakeholder requirements, disrupted supply chains due to global...

Planting a circular foodscape: Solving spatial conflicts in South-Holland by changing to circular behavior in the food chain

Elsewhere, deserts emerge as we flood, yet we continue to consume at our leisure. Our food is shipped all over the world for our convenience. Our behavior causes serious problems in the world but also on our own ground. Right now the province of South Holland copes with a conflict of space, as there is a need for more housing, renewable energy...

Designing socially adaptive behavior for mobile robots

An autonomous guided vehicle can be used for the delivery of goods. To deliver these goods to your home, the mobile robot will be driving in pedestrian rich environments. In these environments the robot will need to socially navigate itself in a way which is both pleasant for the pedestrians and progressive for the robot. During its drive, the...

The Role of Creativity and Ethics in Responsible Innovation Behavior

As innovations became the source of competitive advantage for many companies, creativity became an incredibly valued trait, sought in individuals during recruitment processes for example. Creativity can be defined as the ability to generate novel and useful idea. However, as the world saw many creative inventions resulting in harmful innovations...

Telltail: understanding feline behavior and personality to increase the human-animal bond in order to prevent owner-surrender

One of the most enriching relationships of human beings is the relationship between owner and companion-animal, including more specifically the relationship between owner and cat. Cats are the third-most important source for social support and security for human-beings. Cats are relatively easy to take care of and make people feel needed. Owners...

ECO coin implementation at DGTL: Designing the ECO-coin implementation at DGTL to stimulate sustainable behaviour in the festival audience

The ECO coin is a new currency that values sustainable behaviour. This projects aim was to integrate the ECO coin into the festival environment, emphasizing on the users needs. Finally a system was created which allows users to trace their impact, teaches them about sustainability and fits their festival needs.

Predicting dairy cow parturition using real-time behavior data from accelerometers: A study in commercial setting

A change of perspective on Dutch asylum policies: redesigning citizenship for a cultural inclusive society

The European ‘refugee crisis’, which started during the summer of 2015, has challenged European countries and their societies on many levels. This graduation project focuses on the impact on the Dutch society and zooms in on the concerns of its policymakers, citizens and asylum seekers; refugees that have applied for asylum in the Netherlands....

On the influences of personality traits on employees engagement with gamified enterprise tools

Gamification techniques are used in enterprises to support employees' engagement with computer-mediated business processes. The potential effectiveness of the incentives brought by gamification techniques are, however, not equally appealing to individuals. To better understand when gamification can be an effective engagement aid, it is important...

Making people aware of energy consumption at IDE: The design of an interactive installation

Energy waste is an issue of considerable size. Not only at home, but more increasingly so in public spaces. The TU Delft has set itself a number of sizeable energy saving goals for the near future, but with current initiatives focusing mostly on efficiency and responsible sourcing, not much is being done about altering the demand for energy. In...

Triggering elderly's behavior to an energy neutral and healthy use of the facade

The goal to achieve energy neutral buildings in 2020 is getting closer. To achieve energy neutral buildings, not only new buildings have to be innovative, also the existing building stock has to be improved in terms of energy efficiency. Besides that, the occupants have to be involved in this process too, in the end they have to use the façade...

Loop, a vision on consumption: Stimulating sustainable consumption behavior through design

The stimulation of sustainable consumption behavior through design. “How can we develop a service-design that frames sustainable consumption as a personally valued asset, rather than a collective one?” Central to this research through design project was the exploration of new ways of sustainable consumption.This reasearch through design project...

Sustainable printing for the Chinese consumer market

Worldwide, consumers demand companies to take more responsibility for what environmental problems their products might cause. Companies are following this demand from consumers by producing more sustainable products. HP forms no exception and has implemented so called “Eco solutions” to reduce the environmental impact of their consumer inkjet...

Changing the behavior of the inhabitants of the Dutch island Goeree-Overflakkee towards a more sustainable lifestyle

That less unsustainability is not equal to more sustainability is something that is not being recognized in many current strategies said to be dealing with the twin crisis of climate change and/ or resource scarcity. If sustainability is defined as a community taking care of it’s own needs and flourishing in ways important to it, that means that...

Design for subjective well-being

Happiness is often considered a universal goal of people. In the relatively new field of positive psychology, many studies have been conducted to understand the concept of happiness and its broader counterpart; subjective well-being, leading to a collection of theories that explain their determinants. It has been shown that although there are...

Microscopic interaction behavior between individual pedestrians

Due to growing mobility in densely populated urban areas, public pedestrian walkways are becoming more and more crowded. Since space in these densely occupied areas is highly valued, the use of every square meter must be evaluated carefully. Microscopic pedestrian simulation models can provide such evaluation. However, fundamental knowledge on...