Envision: enabling vision for visually impaired

Envision began as an attempt to increase independence for people with visual impairment. During the course of the project, through a very participatory design approach, a deep understanding of the challenges faced by visually impaired people was obtained. A technology exploration in search for potential solutions led to the discovery of the...

Design with Data

In the emerging field of data science many exciting things are happening. Through the Internet of Things, health trackers and more we are collecting all kinds of data, that allow us to learn more about the world around us than we could have ever imagined. But how do we deal with this as designers? Why would we design with data, and how can we?...

Connecting Swapfiets: Integrating a user facing tracking service into a bicycle light

This graduation project aims to design a data driven service system for Swapfiets. The designed system allows users to locate their bicycle if they have trouble finding it. Other data driven services using the information are explored. The device is designed to be integrated into a bicycle light and capable of sustaining itself for its energy...

From things to systems, and back: A thing-centric approach to protein transition in the Netherlands

This master thesis shows that how to make a transition in everyday life and how to amplify the transition to the system level. Specifically, this research takes a practical case about 'protein transition' in the Netherlands. Based on Transition Design, practical theory, and thing-centric approaches, it designs a new framework for the change of...

Things as Citizens: A study on the mingling of IoT with agency in everyday urban culture

This graduation project contributes to the PACT research project. The PACT (Pure Air for Cities of Things) project aims to develop novel methods and tools for understanding and demonstrating how intelligent things can act in concert with people and connect to existing data and cloud services. In this context, things are connected artefacts that...

Connected Resources: A Research through Design Approach to Designing for Older People’s Resourcefulness

The project aims to encourage "young-older people" to age resourcefully. Although they are better at appropriating artefacts, technologies, and other people available around them to solve challenges as they age, the current "smart products" for those people do not allow them to do so because of their use scenarios rigidly prescribed. To...

Hinting Civic Futures: A call for cityness in the future smart age

By 2030, 70% of the world’s population will live in cities. With technological development, the focus of building a city has been changing over time. Currently, the urban construction is dominated by the dream of the built environment with embedded intelligence. Urban data streams are processed by algorithms which feed to the physical urban...

Design for fairness in AI: Cooking a fair AI Dish

Artificial intelligence (AI) is an emerging field which unleashes massive new (business) opportunities. The potential growth and broad application of the AI technology has great economic benefits however also severe societal implications. Simultaneously, ethical challenges arise with its development. Questions of values and ethics are becoming...

ObjectResponder: Researching & Prototyping for Design collaboration with Artificial Intelligence

In this report, I have explained my iterative design process using research through design approach. This project focuses on the context of Artificial intelligence and design collaboration. It also represents a design method of integrating human and non – human biases while...

Prosumerism in Oosterwold: Designing a Transitional Practice of Food Growing

Imagine a neighborhood where almost all of the decisions are left to its inhabitants; a neighborhood where all of the inhabitants cultivate soil to grow their food for their own consumption, in other words prosumerism*. This newly established neighborhood is Oosterwold which is located in the intersection of Dutch cities Almere and Zeewolde....

Empowering Academic Graduate Job Search: The Design and Validation of a Task-Based Vacancy Platform

A significant portion of academic graduates have difficulty finding a first job after graduation. Research shows that the expectations of academic graduate job seekers and employers do not align and this graduation project confirms that job seekers and employers do not speak the same language. On the one hand, job seekers do not seem very able...

Designing for transparent intentions in AI powered energy systems

The development of intelligent systems has created enormous opportunities to improve and change human lives. These systems are heavily reliant and driven by data and algorithms to achieve optimal user experiences for myriad users. However, these data-driven products/services are multi-dimensional and multifaceted and do not necessarily have the...

MyRubric: A co-creative journey to activate learning communities

Nowadays, designers deal with increasingly complex and meaningful challenges. Because of that, design schools are required to deliver professional designers capable of handling what future decades might bring. Therefore, resilience, generally described as the process of adapting well in the presence of adversity, makes it a valuable quality...

Consent practices and disclosure interactions in the context of digital platforms: A design proposal to improve current practices by leveraging value similarities and resolving value tensions

Digital platforms harvest end-users’ data for providing personalised recommended content. However, this data is also used to predict individual end-users’ behaviours and hook them to the content, eventually influencing their worldviews. This raises ethical debates related to the development of serious societal issues, such as fake-news diffusion...

Eco-Urban Futures: A More-than-human Approach to Multi-Agent Simulation for the Digital Twin of Urban Forests

Urban forests are now digitalized as smart green infrastructures to mitigate environmental change. Cities are proactively planting and replacing trees considering their future ecosystem benefits, such as carbon sequestration, urban heat reduction, and water retention. Digital twin simulation is a key technology enabling this particular mode of...