Designing Expressive Movements for Non-Anthropomorphic Hotel Restaurant Service Robots

The hospitality industry, struggling with significant staff shortages, has increasingly turned to service robots as a solution. However, the prevalent service robot’s design with anthropomorphic appearance is considered inharmonious with the fine-dining restaurant ambiance and may harm the guests’ perception of the service. An alternative...

Exploring MINI's contribution to urban ecosystems: Igniting strategies on heat wave mitigation

This executive summary provides an overview of the key findings and insights presented in the master's thesis named "Exploring MINIs contribution to urban ecosystems. Igniting Strategies on heat wave mitigation.". The study investigates the role of the brand MINI, in addressing the pressing issue of urban heat waves and its transformation to an...

Re-designing the interaction of rowers with their menstrual cycle

There are more and more women who participate in sports on a professional level. The Olympic games in 1964, in Japan, have been the first ones where almost half of the athletes participating were female. But still, a lot of female athletes train based on what has worked for men. As in many other fields, there is a research data gap because...

Design Guidelines for Human-Agent Collaboration in a Painting Context: Authority, Autonomy, and Delegation

This project focuses on developing design guidelines for Human-Agent Collaboration around Authority, Autonomy, and Control in the outdoor painting context. While painting as an activity is something most of us have done and understand, working professionals have a sense of pride and skill in their motions that would be difficult to replace with...

Challenging the concept of smart doorbells by designing new interactions based on privacy

In less than a decade, smart doorbells have become a household stable, introducing a new form of surveillance cameras. But while the cameras have given a new purpose to the doorbell, they also come with an array of privacy concerns. Much critique has been given to the management of data and the effect private<br/>surveillance has on society....

Reframing digital citizenship: creating a common understanding of what it means to live on- and offline at the same time

In the future, the digital environment is increasingly determining how we are living together. Both young and old are being challenged in preparing themselves for a world they do not know yet. Children are growing up in a faster changing world than their parents, increasing the tension between parents and children in how they perceive the world...

Robot Code of Conduct for Automated Dairy Farming: Steering the Design of Pleasurable, Cohesive and Appropriate Behaviours for Lely Automated Portfolio

Robot systems are essentially a new species spreading around us, one that we willingly designed and introduced. Neither a natural species nor a mere human artefact. We have limited information about these smart agents. What do they want, what do you need from us, and how can we find a common ground of understanding to enhance each other through...

Design for information flow between data scientists and researchers in Ford

A-eye: Implementation of AI in eye disease detection

To prevent vision loss from eye diseases like glaucoma and retinopathy it is important to diagnose them on time. When you discover the diseases too late the vision will be irreversibly damaged. For this reason, diabetic people are screened preventively. In the past, this happened every year but now only every three years, all to save costs....

Design for Youth's Flourishing: Intervention design strategies to enhance teenagers’ mental resilience and well-being

The urge to promote mental health and well-being is gaining increasing importance and attention in recent years. Adolescents, who are among the most vulnerable under this aspect, are experiencing an increase in mental health complaints and need of youth care in the Netherlands. In addition, they perceive current means of care as inappropriate to...

Towards an active predictive relation by reconceptualizing a vacuum robot: A study on the transparency and acceptance of the predictive behaviors of vacuum robot

With the development of Artificial intelligence and Machine learning capabilities, the connected objects are extended with predictive capabilities, and the character of things is changed to “things that predict” (Smit, 2021). If a connected device is able to embrace a predictive system that not only profiles for scripted behavior but could also...

Aesthetic appreciation of product metaphors

Product metaphors are products that refer to something else in order to convey a meaning. In a product metaphor the product itself is the target, and the reference is called the source. The association between the target and source is what makes it possible to convey the meaning to the product metaphor. The representation of the source is called...

Communicating Replenishment in Packaging through a Multisensory Design Approach

Sponsored by the Consumer Science department in Groupe Danone France, this design project is aiming to use a Multisensory Design (MSD) approach in developing a new packaging for the ‘Replenishment’ platform in Danone water division. The main design goal is to create a particular drinking experience that could better communicate the most relevant...