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Leuzzi, F.L. (author)
Sanitation is a taken for granted theme in most of the Western Country, but it is a serious issue nowadays. We can count on modern water supply systems and efficient sewage systems but only few of us know what is happening in remote areas of the underdeveloped countries. Sanitation is a central matter for people living in rural areas, where the...
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Senden, D. (author)
This report describes the process and the results of an Industrial Design (DfI) graduation project which was carried out for Nspyre in Eindhoven. The project served as a demonstration on applying user centred design in a traditionally technology driven product domain: domotica (home automation). The assignment was to create a tablet-based...
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De Wit, P. (author)
This thesis describes the design of a project management tool for multidisciplinary design teams. Background: Complex projects require multidisciplinary design teams, which are harder to manage than teams with people from one discipline. To control the resources within projects, an adequate software package is chosen for each issue. This kind of...
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Bezuijen, A. (author)
This thesis describes the complete redesign of the serious game TeamUp. Introduction At the faculty of Technology, Policy and Management a first concept of a serious game had been developed to assist in teamwork training. The goal of this graduation project was to take this concept and develop it into a full featured prototype that can be used...
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Paauwe, R.A. (author)
Programming is a powerful tool for interaction designers, which provides significant opportunities in creating and testing new concepts. Designers and more specifically interaction designers go beyond the basic button & led interaction, but generally stay below production level coding and complex professional systems. However, programming for...
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Rosales, K. (author)
This report depicts in detail the thesis project “Meat substitutes for flexitarians: A design driven approach to inspire food developers.” This project was developed as my final evaluation in Design for Interaction at the Faculty of Industrial Design at the Delft University of Technology. The project was performed from September 2011 to June...
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Hollenberg, N. (author)
Research was done about eating with chilhood cancer. What are the main problems and what are possible solutions. In the end a design was made, called "Proefmonsters". A daily food sample that can be ordered by hospitalized children to increase their curiosity and fun at dinner time.
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Rebaudengo, S. (author)
A product’s addiction comes from the reward of being used, the primary concern of any product from a product’s perspective. How could products communicate to their owners that they want to be used? When do products consider a lack of use as negligence? And what can they do if this neglect is persistent? In the vision of IoT (Internet of Things),...
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Out, N.J. (author)
For Wacom, a tablet manufacturing company, an application for children between 8 and 12 years of age was designed to be used with their consumer line, the Bamboo Tablet, and their software platform, Bamboo Dock. Upon exploring the target group on the topic of drawing, it was found that children between 8 and 12 typically lose interest in drawing...
master thesis 2011
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Van Boerdonk, K.F.P. (author)
Currently there is no market for adaptable personal luminaires in the office environment. The investments would be too high and this while there are no evident benefits. However in the future, with the rise of LEDs and increased knowledge on the effects of lighting on humans, this all may change. LEDs will become more affordable and consume less...
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Benisty, T. (author)
SketchTone is an iPad application for sketching music. Wacom was interested in the potential of their pen and tablet technology for musicians. The focus of the project was on creatives who make music on the side to use such an application for early composing (doodling) of music. While the final platform for such an application is to be the...
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Van Wijk, X.L. (author)
Vogel’s is market leader in Europe for the business of placement and mounts for audio and video equipment. Always looking for opportunities to expand their market, they have started developing accessories for the gaming industry. In order to become a serious player in the market for gaming accessories Vogel’s wants to gain knowledge of gaming...
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Vliegen, A.M.B. (author)
Performing a qualitative study with Kitchen Probes revealed a list of design requirements for kitchen tool design. By observing cooking amateurs 91 (un)conscious kitchen inconveniences were revealed. The Solution Value Level method was developed to assess a selection of 44 suitable inconveniences. This method assesses what the level of...
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Otero Olazabal, I. (author)
This report describes the results and process followed by the student at PSP Peugeot, France, for the development of a new range of kitchenware products. The project started when the graduating student contacted the company in October 2010 with the aim to offer himself to develop a graduation project for PSP. The company had at that time a...
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Custers, S. (author)
Today’s readers want a personal, filtered text abstract that gives an objective insight in a book, instead of the current subjective blurb on a book backs. The abstract’s aim, is to analyze a book on a semantic level, showing more than just an analytic visualization of text. A semantic visual text abstract interprets text and returns a filtered...
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Cordeiro, S.L.G. (author)
Signet has two core components that aim at supporting the user in making safe and diverse password choices. By choosing image hints automatically, the user does not need to be burdened with unlimited possibilities for hinting. With gesture recognition and length (i.e. number of strokes) guidance, the effort for precision encoding/recall is also...
master thesis 2011
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Botermans, B.A.M. (author)
This report is about my final Design for Interaction master’s project I did at SPIRE research centre in Sønderborg about provotyping. This work is part of PhD candidate Laurens Boer’s promotion. Provotypes are provocative prototypes that are used at the fuzzy frontend of an innovation project to understand how people experience phenomena they...
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Louwman, J.M.E. (author)
Obesity, overweight, diabetes, and unhealthy eating habits among children cause global health concerns. It needs a solution at young age to prevent these problems. The current eating behaviour of families has to be changed, since this is one of the main causes of these problems. From birth, taste have to be developed by experience; therefore,...
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Teunisse, J. (author)
One of the most basic needs for a healthy lifestyle is a healthy diet. A healthy diet consists of a variety of different foods thus providing people with all the nutrients they need for their body. One group of essential nutrients are vitamins. Vitamins are micronutrients which are needed for various basic functions of the body.The body only...
master thesis 2010
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Ruitenberg, H.P. (author)
Happiness is often considered a universal goal of people. In the relatively new field of positive psychology, many studies have been conducted to understand the concept of happiness and its broader counterpart; subjective well-being, leading to a collection of theories that explain their determinants. It has been shown that although there are...
master thesis 2010
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