Social Navigation: Assisting people that are blind or have low vision in finding and navigating towards familiar individuals in close proximity

Imagine going to a bar to meet your friends. When you arrive you try to spot them in a room filled with people, but your view is blurred which disables you from recognizing your friends. How would this make you feel? People that are blind or have low vision (PBLV) are all around us and can be found in any context of life. Just like sighted...

Development of a product that uses 3D Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) to bridge the gap between the digital and physical world

Nowadays, the digital space is gaining more and more relevance in our daily lives. Transactions, documents, education, meetings, and social activities are being digitalised. Companies from around the globe are making steps and taking initiatives to lead the change with concepts like the “metaverse”. Parallelly, blockchain technology is helping...

Seamless Mobility: A strategic intervention integrating public & shared mobility using a complementary travel product

Just a couple of years ago the delineation between the public and the private sector was clear. However, with the introduction and proliferation of shared mobility providers, the boundary is becoming fuzzy, especially since these newcomers all use their own specific way of checking in and out. Because they are not incorporated into a single...

Improving Shared Understanding with Hart: designing a telemonitoring smart care agent to support transcatheter aortic valve implantation patient care in perioperative journey

This master thesis explores how Philips wearable the biosensor can bring value in the cardiovascular disease care pathway. This project proposes a concept of product-service system to improve patient care in transcatheter aortic valve stenosis implantation (TAVI) perioperative journey. Aortic valve stenosis (AS) is one of the most common and...

Development of an attention test using the VitalSky

Delirium occurs in upto 80% of the ICU patients and is one of the most common source of morbidity and mortality in the ICU. Inattention is one of the core features of delirium and affects 97% - 100% of the delirium patients. This indicates that attention can be a good parameter for detecting delirium. In literature, it has been found that the...