Sustainability, Behavior, & Design: Design of a Home Energy Management System for Samsung

Abstract This graduation project is one of two from Delft University of Technology that were initiated with the User Experience (UX) Research division at Samsung Electronics. They address electricity consuming behav- ior of young professionals and the role that consumer electronics (CE) play in it. This project focuses on the design of eco-...

Interactivity for the TV Experience

This Master Thesis explores new ways of interacting with the TV and especially via tablet devices. It focuses on the enhancement of group experiences, for which tablets are integrated taking advantage of their technological benefits such as sensors and touchscreen properties. Result from this study is a system of collaborative content creation...

Hybrid zones the ideal place for contact: Design for communication in streets with no a hybrid zone

Contact between neighbours is a logical starting point for making a neighbourhood a pleasant place to live. A scientific research has shown that the area in streets where most contact between neighbours takes place is the hybrid zone. Hybrid zones are the zones between one’s private space (ones house) and the public space (the street); things...

'City Marketing through Gamification

Games are able to fulfil our innate motivational needs as well as our learned social needs. Therefore, games are motivating. While motivation is a key aspect within the process of behavioural change, games can effectively be deployed as a persuasive technology. Gamification, the use of game design elements in any non-game context, is seen as the...

Changing the behavior of the inhabitants of the Dutch island Goeree-Overflakkee towards a more sustainable lifestyle

That less unsustainability is not equal to more sustainability is something that is not being recognized in many current strategies said to be dealing with the twin crisis of climate change and/ or resource scarcity. If sustainability is defined as a community taking care of it’s own needs and flourishing in ways important to it, that means that...

An application as a platform for a Street of the Future

Creating a platform to inspire collaboration and communicate sustainable solutions in a sustainable street called the Street of the Future.

How to sustain a social on-line campaign through means of user interface?

Running and operating an on-line social campaign in the context of authoritarian regimes is not a usual task to do. Besides motivation and courage, it requires creativity and flexibility. I have tried to explore all possible aspects of such context (from sociology and marketing to political science and design) and implement those findings into...

Serendipity at the workplace for future tacit workers

The workplace environment is changing; office buildings no longer have a desk for everyone, people work from different places at different times, people become tacit workers, people work more individualistic and work life and home life start blending together. The challenge is to understand more about the nature and value of informal and...

ADA for Balanced Lifestyle Applications

This master project is about finding applications for ADA. ADA stands for a brand new technology named Active Digital Aura, which was invented by Philips. It is a kind of technology enable the data transfer via body skin, and accordingly make it possible that the human intuitive touch in everyday life can be the trigger of itself. The whole...

Sasér: An educative game about Smart Grids and electricity consumption with renewable resources

Sasér is an educative board game to explain what Smart Grids are and how the exploitation of renewable resources for electricity production they allow will impact consumers' behavior in private households.