Needs Matter: A Detailed Typology of Fundamental Needs for Human-Centered Design

The relevance of human needs is generally recognized in human-centered design research and practice. However, a challenge of working with needs is that the word “need” can be interpreted in various ways, which can hinder effective communication and collaboration. Need typologies, in such cases, can serve as a shared language by providing an...

Identifying meaningful user experiences with autonomous products: a case study in fundamental user needs in fully autonomous vehicles

Autonomous products (e.g., home cleaning robots, smart fridges, or autonomous vehicles) take over tasks that require time and effort from their users, redefining both the user roles and context around a product. Consequently, meaningful user experiences should be designed to overcome the risk of relegating humans to undesirable tasks and to take...

Guided Malware Sample Analysis Based on Graph Neural Networks

Malicious binaries have caused data and monetary loss to people, and these binaries keep evolving rapidly nowadays. With tons of new unknown attack binaries, one essential daily task for security analysts and researchers is to analyze and effectively identify malicious parts and report the critical behaviors within the binaries. While manual...

Designing product metaphor to promote sustainable behaviour: A proposed method

Within the scope of Design for Sustainable Behaviour, the connection between behavioural change strategies and design idea generation has received limited attention. This paper highlights metaphorical thinking in product design to stimulate sustainable behaviour. In particular, the current study proposes a metaphor-based design method to guide...

Recycling Houston: Bringing synergy between improving water safety, reducing energy consumption and reinforcing living quality in suburban

The project discusses how the water system can be transformed with integrated (intensification) strategies, in order to improve the three challenges (flooding, urban sprawl and energy consumption) in Houston suburban.

Hydrologic and cryospheric processes observed from space

Ten Dragon 3 projects deal with hydrologic and cryosphere processes, with a focus on the Himalayas and Qinghai – Tibet Plateau, but not limited to that. At the 1st Dragon 3 Progress Symposium in 2013 a significant potential for a better and deeper integration appeared very clearly and we worked out an overview of the ten projects identifying...

Thermoluminescence investigation of donor (Ce3+, Pr3+, Tb3+) acceptor (Eu3+, Yb3+) pairs in Y3Al5O12

The thermoluminescence properties of Y3Al5O12 (YAG) doped with an electron donor lanthanide (Ce3+, Pr3+, or Tb3+) together with an electron acceptor lanthanide (Yb3+ or Eu3+) were studied with the aim to locate the energy levels of each divalent and each trivalent lanthanide within the band gap. The activation energies needed to liberate...