AI-powered smartglasses for visually impaired people to achieve greater independence and social integration: Design of a concept for visually impaired people that uses human assistance substitution when artificial intelligence is not reliable

Artificial Intelligence can extend human frontiers and complement our capabilities. This project presents AI-powered smart glasses that empower visually impaired people to achieve greater independence and social integration. Since AI is a developing discipline, we enhance reliability by providing the opportunity for reciprocal learning between...

Designing for children's agency in sustainability

Inspiration for this project are the climate strikes world-wide, in which students strike for climate justice. The children participating in these strikes indicate that they do not feel heard. While striking is relevant to communicate their opinions, change can also be initiated by changing the perspective of for example parents/guardians. This...

Supporting residents to transition practices in zero energy homes

Residential housing has to become more sustainable to meet global energy goals (Silvester et al., 2017), yet the challenge is to integrate the refurbishments that reduce energy with the way people live. The context of this project is the 2ndSKIN project, which refurbishes houses to become zero energy. Zero energy houses are more airtight as a...

Design for Product care: The development of a design tool for product lifetime extension

To realize the shift towards a Circular Economy, products should stay usable as long as possible. Maintaining products is the most efficient way of retaining their desired level of performance. This is called Product care. Product care can be understood as any action that helps to prolong the lifetime of a product. The aim of this thesis is to...

Living comfortably and energy neutrally in an energy neutral home

Context <br/>We live in a world in which many share the goal to live sustainable and every year new regulations are made to lower our national environmental footprint. For example, after 2020 all new buildings need to be nearly energy neutral. Therefore, the building sector is rapidly innovating and new solutions are launched to the market every...

Designing a data enabled product to support daily cooking practices: Graduation project focused on designing a data enabled product using internet of things to support cooking enthusiasts in their daily cooking practices

Graduation project focused on designing a data enabled product using internet of things to support cooking enthusiasts in their daily cooking practices for ATAG. By using practice theory bij Kuijer the graduate student researched the kitchen context and did user interviews to uncover design opportunities for data enabled products in the kitchen...

MATCH! A diabetes patient platform to facilitate new peer friendships

This Master Thesis focuses on exploring the possibilities of facilitating peer support possibilities between diabetes type 1 patients, as a valuable addition to a patient’s normal support network. This report presents the results of the analysis phase, the developed concepts and the final outcomes of this master thesis. <br/><br/>Diabetes is a...