Emotion driven design of an autoerotic stimulator: An engaging masturbation expercience through the usage of sexual self stimulation massager

Masturbation is now proven to be beneficial to both physical and psychological well being. Within the focus of this project, in order to emphasize the aspect of well being the term autoerotic activity replaces masturbation. Autoerotic activity focuses on the whole body and any self induced erotic activity rather than only the stimulation of the...

Food for thought: Designing emotional goal engagement using paradoxical concerns

The project consisted of recurrent research and design cycles during which a tool has been developed to communicate the inspiring nature of conflicting emotional concerns and suggest ways on how to adopt them in specific design projects. Within this process, a design assignment given by Studio Katja Gruijters has been used as a case study to...

Improving the user experience of nasoenteral tube feeding

This graduation project originates from a discomfort of a patient who couldn’t obtain common food in a natural way due to an obstruction in the digestive tract. Therefore, the patient needed tube feeding, which had to be administered into the digestive tract using a nasoenteral feeding tube. Despite the importance of the tube, the user...