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van den Berg, Lisa (author)Hyperthermia is a clinical cancer treatment method that relies on the principle of selectively heating tumour tissue with temperatures between 40 - 44 °C. For most head- and neck tumours deep hyperthermia treatment (DHT) is applied, in which electromagnetic energy is emitted to tumour tissue located ≥ 4cm below the skin surface. At the Erasmus...master thesis 2017
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Korteweg, Noortje (author)Tripick is an online platform which makes it possible to save holiday destinations from different tour operators and share them with travelpartners so jointly the best location can be chosen. Users of the platform will search for a holiday destination just as they normally do, but when they have found a potential location they can easily save it...master thesis 2017
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Bovens, Bella (author)When you are ill, a visit to the hospital is often a stressful and worrisome experience. Especially when you are a child and you cannot fully understand or imagine what is going to happen to you. A clinical environment that contains ‘scary’ looking medical equipment does not make you feel at ease. On the contrary, this can be experienced as...master thesis 2017
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Beerkens, Thijs (author)Repair was once a common act. With increased product diversity and complexity, a scarcity and obsolescence of spare parts is making repair increasingly difficult and economically unviable. The result is an accelerated turnover of manufactured goods, which are more often replaced than repaired. As products are discarded, embedded materials and...master thesis 2017
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Bhajantri, Vinay (author)Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs) face major issues throughout the continuum of primary healthcare for child care (0-5 years). Altogether more than 10 million children die each year in developing countries before they reach their fifth birthday. WHO and UNICEF created an Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) strategy to tackle...master thesis 2017
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Pranav Balasubramanian, Pranav (author)Chronic (persistent) pain is a global health concern that affects one in ten adults ( Europe Pain Report, 2004). It is associated with pain on certain tender points of the body when staying still for long periods. Performing physical activity is key in combating this illness, but is also a challenge as patients suffer from fear of movement in...master thesis 2017
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Russano, Chiara (author)The objective of this MSc thesis was to design a miniaturised Raman spectrometer that can be used in terrestrial deep ice applications of the IceMole probe. This probe is a manoeuvrable subsurface system for clean in situ analysis and sampling, developed at FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences since 2008, that is now part of a bigger DLR...master thesis 2017
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Poolmans, Killian (author)In this thesis, research is conducted regarding the design of various platforms and systems dealing with trust. Four Principles of Trust are extracted from this research. A way of increasing trust within diverse societies was designed based on these four principles. This design is the Familiar Stranger system. This system provides civilians the...master thesis 2017
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Cheng, Shen Kao (author)Mobile ticketing solutions are proposed as an alternative to the OV-chipkaart in a vision created by the Nationaal Openbaar Vervoer Beraad (NOVB), a council consisting of public transport companies, local governments and consumer organisations. By taking a user-centred approach, a design vision was developed for mobile ticketing in Dutch public...master thesis 2017
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Deurvorst, Taco (author)<br/>This thesis studies the strategic motivations for large firms to engage in partnerships with young ventures, and aims to design a service model for an intermediary that puts the needs of the large firm at the core. This project was commissioned by, and executed in collaboration with Venture IQ, an innovation scouting company founded in...master thesis 2017
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van der Meer, Timme (author)This project explores the potential of virtual reality (VR) as a training tool at the crew safety & security training (CSST) department of the Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM). With a research and prototype driven approach, a VR simulation and its integration into the training programme are designed. This simulation aims to improve stress...master thesis 2017
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Meraza Farfan, Paulina (author)This project represents the graduation project of the MSc Strategic Product of the Industrial Design Faculty at the Delft University of Technology, carried out in collaboration with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines from February to September 2017.<br/><br/>With the steadily increasing challenges of fuel prices, new technologies and competitive...master thesis 2017
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Chin-On, Ziran (author)In 2014, the National Archaeological Anthropological Memory Management Foundation (NAAM) was commissioned by the Bonairean government (OLB) to realize a permanent museum exhibition on the ground floor of the Passanggrahan building. The exhibition is to be based on the (historic) city center of Kralendijk. Being that the realization of this...master thesis 2017
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Feng, Jiamin (author)This project focus on forming a future flying experience for passengers in 2022. The design concept came from the usage of the approach ViP (Vision in Design), by deconstruction of current aircraft environment ,collecting context factors, forming future context. After the future context structure, four types of passengers’ behaviour in aircraft...master thesis 2017
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Van, G-Young (author)In Central America, the migrant crisis has grown more complicated over past years. It is estimated that about 500,000 migrants cross Mexican border every year. Most of the population is escaping from the extreme violence in the countries known as the Northern Triangle of Central America - Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. The highest homicide...master thesis 2017
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van Heuveln, Sanne (author)KLM has the ambition to be become most customer-centric airline company. Focusing on customer intimacy, KLM defines their purpose: Moving your world, by creating memorable experiences. In order to be successful towards customers, KLM has to start on employee level first, with the cabin crew to be more specific. For cabin crew, their journey...master thesis 2017
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Mao, Heidi (author)This report is the graduation thesis for the Master of Design for Interaction, Faculty of Design Engineering at Delft University of Technology. The report presents a set of guidelines showing the relationships between food textures and conscious and satiating snacking experiences. As a designer, food textures can be considered as tools to shape...master thesis 2017
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de Jong, Puk (author)Driving a significant part of the global economy, fashion represents one of the world’s leading industries. Currently, the fashion industry is radically reshaping by the forces of technology, globalisation and shifting consumer values. The top 3 words executives used to describe the fashion industry in 2016 were: uncertain, changing and...master thesis 2017
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Salomon, Daniel (author)This report will describe the analysis of two topics: the pheromone based communication method used by ants in their foraging behaviour, and the phenomenon of trade fairs. This natural communication model has been analyzed and its defining characteristics have been abstracted, after which they have been used to design a product that solves the...master thesis 2017
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Koenders, Jan (author)In 2016 Livework Studio—a service design consultancy, on whosebehalf this report has been written—witnessed that the customersof Vorwerk—one of Livework’s clients—started performing all kindsof roles for Vorwerk. The customers performed sales, customerservice, marketing and other roles and did so purely based on theirown enthusiasm, not because...master thesis 2017