Meaningful use of depth cues within the design of automotive Head-Up Display Interfaces

The project described in this thesis is named “Meaningful use of depth cues within the design of automotive Head-up Display Interfaces”. It strives to research whether spatial impression on the automotive Head-up Display (HUD) interfaces can be beneficial for usability and user acceptance.

On the design and synthesis of voting games: Exact solutions for the inverse problems

In many real-world decision making settings, situations arise in which the parties (or: players) involved must collectively make decisions while not every player is supposed to have an equal amount of influence in the outcome of such a decision. The "weighted voting game" is a model that is often used to make such decisions. The amount of...

Design for the Mobile OR, a mobile operation room which provides medical aid in Africa and Europe

Nowadays there are often problems appearing when applying medical care during emergency situations, specifically in remote areas. There can be extreme circumstances in which important and vital environmental factors have to be taken into consideration, like the accessibility of the area, extreme temperatures and the ability of having a sterile...

Development of an attachable handbike

Mobility makes people independent and is a necessity of life. This is also for people with a spinal chord lesion. They are fully depending on their wheelchair and this is not an efficient transport product for distances further then 2 km. A handbike is the solution and give the users more freedom to become mobile in the city and at the same time...

Interior Design for UTVS

Urban Transport Vehicle Service is a low-end manifestation of a more general idea of integrating public and personal transport as a more sustainable way of mobility. The aim of UTVS is to make this integral system more efficient in door to door journeys compared to the private car use as a typical less sustainable choice. This report describes...

Design of a Household Monitoring Solution for Urban Patients with Heart Failure in China

This assignment can be seen as an integration of IPD and SPD assignment. The original assignment received from Philips is to design a new monitoring solution for the Chinese market. This is too broad for designing a product and as a result, need to be concretized obviously. Researches must be done to the healthcare status of Chinese people in...

A Study of Synchronization Issues of Wavelet Packet based Multicarrier Modulation

Wavelet Packet based Multi-Carrier Modulation (WPMCM) offers an alternative to the well-established OFDM as an efficient multicarrier modulation technique. It has strong advantage of being generic transmission scheme whose actual characteristics can be widely customized to fulfill several requirements and constraints of advanced communication...

In search for balance in contrasts: graduation project for a designcentre in Rotterdam

There is no Rotterdam identity. Rotterdam has characterizations that everybody can sense namely the big contrasts in Rotterdam. Contrasts originated from top-down-planning of urban renewal projects due to the bombardment in WOI. In my opinion people need these contrasts, to adapt themselves to the changes that are occurring at the moment, to...

The Future of Delft Open Courseware - How to build a sustainable environment for Open Educational Resources

Delft University of Technology started publishing some of her course materials online from September 2007 in a project called Delft Open Courseware (OCW). This report discusses the future of this project, describes important issues that should be addressed in order to become sustainable, and ends with an advice on how this can be done.

Development of a multiobjective design optimization procedure for marine propellers

The design of a marine propeller is characterized by its complexity rather then its shortcoming of knowledge how to asses its performance. There are several constraints to satisfy and all are in a different field. The three major considerations are strength, performance (efficiency) and cavitation behavior. There is not a perfect design...

LINKX, a language toy for autistic toddlers developed in co-creation with parents and pedagogues

This master thesis shows the design process of LINKX, a language toy for children with a disorder in the spectrum of autism. Children with autism have an inborn brain disorder and therefore play and learn differently than children with 'typical' development. Language and speech of children with autism develops slowly or not at all. These...