Thermoregulating Cycling Clothing

The Brisk concept is a cycling suit with unique cooling abilities integrated into fabric. The cooling elements are strategically placed on the side and back of the body, where the cooling sensation is the most enjoyable. With the refreshing cool sensation of the suit the cyclists receive psychological support during their challenges in warm...

Waves: a future vision for console gaming

Just in the last decade alone, over 300 Million Game Consoles have been sold globally. When all stacked up, the height is three times the distance to the moon. With even shorter lifecycles forecasted due to technological advancements (i.e. Virtual Reality), the pace in which consoles become obsolete will increase dramatically in the near future....

Poetry of the everyday: An exploration into the design for poetic experiences

Poetic experiences seem ineffable and rare, but they occur more often than one would assume. Think of gazing at the stars and feeling incredibly small. The joy that stepping in fresh snow brings and makes you appreciating being part of nature. Or standing on top of a mountain and admiring the view, being in awe. See? It is not necessary to be a...

Rotterdam 24/7

CO3 Rotterdam’s ultimate goal is to increase the bustle of the city. They believe that flexworkers have a greater influence on the activity in the city during the day (and night), than people with a fixed ‘9 to 5’ workday, since flexworkers move throughout the city in order to find a place to work at. Therefor the focus of this graduation...

FUTURE.ME: Exploring design opportunities to enrich social intimacy through everyday practices

This project focuses on 2 issues: 1. Explore the meaning to make social media tangible and 2. Sustain and enrich social intimacy on social media services. The 1st issue was the initial project goal, while later on we choose to address it through creating a design to fulfil the 2nd issue, since through a preliminary investigation we did see the...

A Brand & Product Development for High Performance Bodyboarding, on the harsh Atlantic Coast of Ireland

The project is centered around the creation of a brand whose identity represents the unique character of the Irish Atlantic explorers. This group is not bound by a style or a fashion, but by a deep and honest connection to the raw and wind battered beauty of nature on the Irish Atlantic Coast. They are the tussock lead pioneers of empty,...

How to contribute to body awareness through physical interaction by design

This project starts with an analysis. Here, the design field will be explored by means of a literature study, user studies and a self-reflection study. The analysis aims to obtain a better insight in the subject. This is necessary in order to find out where the potential leads lie for design. Apart from that a good understanding of the subject...

The Communication of a natural symbiosis

The assignment stated raising awareness and interest around the increasing risk of flooding in Noordereiland and Kop van Feijenoord. An extended contextmapping study was done on how the inhabitants react to learning on their flooding risks as well as how their environment and the water. From this, 6 different ways of looking at the Maas were...

Space for inspiration in a flexible working environment

In a business world where innovation is the main competitive advantage for a company, facilitating and improving the creativity of employees is of paramount importance. This graduation thesis, executed at Logica, comprises the report of a product design which can contribute to a more inspiring working environment. For this project the...

Snoezelen, a way to physical relaxation

Physical pain in user-product interaction

The main focus of the multidisciplinary nature of design is to provide users a better life in terms of enabling the products to be safe, usable and pleasurable to use. Therefore, physical pain is always avoided. However, physical pain is involved in our daily lives, not only as an avoided concept, but also as a constructive concept. It is used...

Motivating elderly in elderly homes to change their activity behavior

This thesis describes the design process of a service, Pearls in North, for elderly who live in Humanitas. The goal of the project was to design a product or a service that makes elderly physically more active so they feel good, stay healthy and independent. When people become older they tend to become more passive. Especially when people move...

The Totem Pole - A therapy intervention for the youngsters of Mistral

In this Master thesis the design process of the Totem Pole is presented. The assignment of this graduation project is to design a product as a therapy intervention that could be used in one of the addiction care programs at Mistral treatment clinic of Brijder. The product has to be based on a tangible interaction driven by a game element....

Making the Tent Cool Again: Making the recreational tent a more integral part of the camping experience

This project seeks to determine how the recreational tent could become a more integral part of the camping experience. Instead of looking at “what is wrong” with current tents, this project focuses on defining how the recreational tent can better fit into the user’s outdoor experience. By focusing on the factors that make outdoor recreation...

Improving the welfare of pigs: The design of environmental enrichment for pigs in the intensive farming industry

The design of environmental enrichment for pigs in the intensive farming industry. The barren circumstances of their environment causes boredom, which results in undesired behavior among the pigs, such as tail biting. Providing them with materials which they can direct their exploratory behavior towards can solve this problem. In this project...

Emotion driven design of an autoerotic stimulator: An engaging masturbation expercience through the usage of sexual self stimulation massager

Masturbation is now proven to be beneficial to both physical and psychological well being. Within the focus of this project, in order to emphasize the aspect of well being the term autoerotic activity replaces masturbation. Autoerotic activity focuses on the whole body and any self induced erotic activity rather than only the stimulation of the...

Tactual relaxation device to enhance the falling asleep experience

In general all adults sleep seven to eight hours per night. In other words: human kind sleeps one third of their lifetime. Until now, there has not found scientific evidence for the function of sleep, but the theory most accepted is that sleep has a restorative function. Sleeplessness can cause serious health problems on the long run. In modern...

The Power of Touch: Developing a touch screen user interface, on Alcatel-Lucent’s new My IC phone

This master thesis evaluates the touch screen and tactile feedback on Alcatel-Lucent’s My IC phone. It consists of a usability research focussed on user product interaction, an interaction vision and propositions for improvement and future development. Propositions are evaluated in another usability research.