Redesign fEATback - to sooner reach adolescents with eating problems

Featback is an online self-help program for people with eating problems. Someone has an eating disorder (ED) when their whole life revolves around food and body image (Saha et al., 2022). Featback is developed by GGZ Rivierduinen Eetstoornissen Ursula. It has proven to be effective in reducing ED symptoms (Aardoom et al., 2016a; Rohrbach et al.,...

Designers of the Future: Engaging children in speculation through museum experiences

Nowadays, children are growing up in a highly unstable world. In our popular, shared narrative, ‘the future’ seems to have become a synonym for socioeconomic crisis and environmental disaster. In the hugely globalized and intercommunicated reality we live in, this is a story that children can hardly stay oblivious to. A European Union-wide...

Digital Literacy in Secondary Education Design Projects: Promoting playful reflection, collaborative creation and self-regulated learning

Digital literacy has emerged as an indispensable skill in the 21st-century workforce, compelling educational institutions to adapt their curricula and incorporate digital literacy into their teaching methodologies. This research abstract specifically addresses the challenge of integrating digital literacy into the secondary educational course...

Peer Mentor Support in Virtual Reality: Enable young adults with mental health experiences to engage with peer mentors in virtual reality

Young adults with Concerns about their mental health issues (YAMHI) seeking support in the Dutch mental health system struggle with long waiting times. <br/>Enliven aims to develop a virtual peer mentor support platform for YAMHIE to bridge these waiting times. This thesis explores the design process and development of a concept with the...

Designing a lifestyle intervention for people with a physically demanding job

Cardiovascular diseases are a prevalent cause of death worldwide. People with physically demanding jobs tend to have poorer cardiovascular health than people with sedentary jobs. In contrast to leisure-time physical activity (PA), occupational PA (lifting, pushing, and pulling heavy loads over a long period without sufficient recovery) seems to...

Face it; a visual fore-glimpse in AR for facial skin cancer patients' surgery?

Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the Netherlands, often caused by having too much exposure to UV radiation from the sun. An effect of this is that the part of the body that is exposed the most to the sun is also the body part where skin cancer is seen more often; the head. When the skin cancer gets removed surgically, the defect...

Designing and Evaluating Avatar Biosignal Visualization Techniques in Social Virtual Reality

Social VR is the application of virtual reality that supports remote social interaction in virtual spaces. Users communicate and interact with others in the social VR environment through avatars, which are virtual anthropomorphic characters that aim to represent humans in virtual worlds. In addition, the development of the HMD and commercially...

Design for Youth's Flourishing: Intervention design strategies to enhance teenagers’ mental resilience and well-being

The urge to promote mental health and well-being is gaining increasing importance and attention in recent years. Adolescents, who are among the most vulnerable under this aspect, are experiencing an increase in mental health complaints and need of youth care in the Netherlands. In addition, they perceive current means of care as inappropriate to...

A cup deposit system: An implementation strategy for NS stations to engage customers to use reusable cups and lower their environmental impact

This graduation project focused on lowering the environmental impact in which warm beverages were drunk at NS stations by motivating user to use reusable cups. It was explored why customers currently do not use reusable cups at NS stations, which solution space can be used to motivate customers to use a reusable cup and how NS can implement this...

Smart technologies and human factors for detection during bridge operations

The combination of centralised automatic bridge and lock (object) control and the increase in traffic has led to a shift in object operations. In the past years, several incidents and accidents have made RWS see the value of innovation when it comes to the control of objects. This master thesis will, therefore, start with defining which problems...

Sound Cultures of Critical Care: How design could tune sound-related practices of intensive care nurses

The intensive care unit (ICU) is a special department of the hospital that admits critically ill patients who need intensive monitoring, supporting, and/or take-over of one or more of their vital functions. The patients are monitored and supported by medical equipment as well as a team of intensivists, nurses and other medical staff members 24/7...

Facilitating and supporting patients in decision-making about healthcare professionals’ access to their medical data

The transfer of a patient's medical data between healthcare professionals is sometimes needed to take relevant aspects of the patient's health into account to offer fitting care for the specific patient. A patient's medical data is stored in the systems of the different healthcare professionals that treat or have treated the patient, thus...

Track Me & Chase Me: an Engaging Environment for Paediatric Therapy

This report is an account of the design project about a new playscape for the Child Development and Exercise Center of the Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital (WKZ)<br/>in Utrecht. The appropriateness the centre's current exercise room for children’s play and ergonomic skills is highly age-dependent and its possibilities for interaction are limited....

Beagle; 'a stimulating quest throughout the hospital'

Beagle; ‘a stimulating quest throughout the hospital’ is a project that focuses on improving the quality of life and the development (physical, emotional and social) of hospitalised adolescents with CF within the Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital. This graduation project is positioned within the Meedoen=groeien! project of the Dutch Rehabilitation...

Designing for patient experience in hospital architecture

De Jong Gortemaker Algra, a Rotterdam based architectural firm, initiated this project. The company designs mostly for social projects, e.g. hospital buildings and schools. When designing a hospital building they have to consider multiple stakeholders. To them the patient experience was an area in which they had little expertise. They started...

Nature experience of children with physical dissabilities

This report describes a graduation report for Stichting Bio kinderrevalidatie on the nature experience of children with physical disabilities. It starts with a contextmapping research into the nature experience of children at the terrain of bio and concludes with a design to improve the nature experience of the children. Assignment The terrain...

Building on Experiences: The Hospital Stakeholder Participation Method

Royal Haskoning BM (healthcare department at Hoofddorp)* operates actively in the healthcare market, designing and consulting within care housing projects. Anticipating changes in the healthcare sector, Royal Haskoning foresees a strategic value that could profit the contractor by involving hospital stakeholders (employees, visitors and patients...