Conceptualization of a Personal Adaptive Informing Platform

Right now, everyone is using many different personal computing devices to clench their desire to be informed, where manufactures have tried their hardest to integrate as many features as possible into one device. For most of the tasks executed they are overkill, and for others insufficient. Furthermore, they are quickly outdated and require a...

Supporting agents for working with the airport security lane

In June 2015, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AAS) changed its security check at the gate to centralized security for the entire airport. New security lanes were developed by Scarabee Aviation Group for those centralized areas to increase security, efficiency, passenger flow and experience. Lots of customer research about passenger experience is...

Designing a collaboration platform for effective technical communication

At Shell Innovation, Research and Development Organization (Shell IR&D), technical communication plays a central role of people’s day-to-day business. To do technical communication, most of time, people need to prepare the technical communication materials. However, Shell’s technical communication materials range from film and video to TV, print...

Digital publishing for the masses: Developing an immersive digital storytelling platform

Developing an immersive digital platform focused on travel storytelling. It covers the entire process of user-testing, brand and product design and development, defining the value proposition and business strategy.

An analysis of visual and verbal facilitation in interdisciplinary design sketching

This study researches the effect of visual and verbal facilitation in interdisciplinary design sketching on shared understanding and design creativity. Based on literature research and a field study, a sketch-focused facilitation protocol is developed which guides a facilitator in using sketching as a facilitation tool during creative sessions....

How to enable innovation consultancy firms influence on their clients strategic decision-making process

This master thesis provides a comprehensive study of the factors of actor's resistance to engage in the strategic decision-making process. These factors were studied through a qualitative analysis of six semi.structure interviews with consultants and consultancy clients. From these interviews a series of strategies for dealing with actors...

The Perception of Proportions: Comparison between Golden Ratio and Root Ration in Japan

Over the past few hundred years a considerable number of studies have been made on the Golden ratio. This paper is based on empirical studies, which reveal doubts on the universal preference of the golden ratio (?) proportion. The empirical study, preceding Gustav Fechner’s publication “Vorschule der Aesthetik” in 1876, was conducted in South...

Teamplay: The further development of TeamUp, a teamwork focused serious game

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...