Participatory Research and Design for Repair of customers’ IKEA furniture: Prolonging the life of IKEA furniture through Creative Repair

Valuable resources are discarded on a daily basis, in the form of home furniture. Tonnes of prematurely disposed, functional and repairable furniture is often destined for landfill or incineration, with small proportions recycled. The emergent sustainability needs of the planet, and changing policies for repair of consumer products, drives the...

Ethics, Gender, and Agents: The Role of Designers in Conversational Agent Design

Research has shown how people anthropomorphize conversational agents (CA) and unconsciously bring their gender stereotypes into human-agent interaction. For this reason, there has been a long lasted dilemma on whether designers should design CAs that conform to or violate stereotypical expectations. Despite the urgency and importance of...

Adapting care robot Tessa for early-stage dementia with implementation through general practitioners

Tessa is a social, assistive robot from the company Tinybots, designed to support people with early- to moderate stage dementia and other mild cognitive impairments.<br/>By giving verbal reminders and instructions, programmed by their formal and informal caregivers, Tessa gives people back their self-management and autonomy, enabling them to...

Enabling Human-In-The-Loop Interpretability Methods of Machine Learning Models: The Case of Bird Species Identification

To study how to involve the end-users in the development of machine learning explainability, this project has chosen the context of bird species identification. It intends to develop a platform where the end-users can learn bird knowledge while contributing to building the explainability of machine learning models. Among all the methods that...