Involving older adults with an intellectual disability in the design process of the MakiMove: a modular intervention for stimulating physical activity

Regular physical activity helps to improve the health, fitness and quality of life of people, and prevent or decline aging related health issues. The amount of physical activity in older adults with an intellectual disability is extremely low. Contextual research indicates that this physical inactivity stems, among other things, from previous...

Food for Talk: A conversation game for young adults with eating disorders and their social network

Eating disorders are a growing problem in the Netherlands. Eating disorders are most prevalent among young adults between 18 and 30 years old and, on average, go undiagnosed for four years. There is no single cause for eating disorders, and are often accompanied by other mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety. Because of the complexity,...

A Serious Game for the well-being of CSN parents

Many parents of Children with Special Needs (CSN parents) struggle with finding the right balance in their life between doing all their responsibilities, taking care of their child with special needs and taking care of themselves. As a result, they take less care of themselves, by eliminate their needs. Therefore, the aim was to design a serious...

SLOWLY: A digital reflection tool to help Dutch nurses tell their story.

The extraordinary working conditions caused by the first wave of COVID-19 patients caused stress, anxiety and lack of sleep in frontline nurses. This negatively impacted their psychological well being which is important for providing optimal care and maintaining long-term employability (Schoonhoven & Trappenburg, 2020). There is a lack of...

#FASHIONISME: A design to break weight stigma internalisation circle in the age of social media

This graduation project starts from the big scope of weight stigmatisation on social media. At the beginning of research, primary research about weight stigma and social media was conducted to collect background knowledge and form an initial scope for further exploration. Explorative research was conducted to map out the situation and problems...

Designing an entertaining game for children that measures their social/emotional development

In order to support the development of children, they are continuously monitored at all types of care they go to. The goal of SWKGroep is to improve this support of the development. In order to do this, and enrich their portfolio, they want to know the possibilities of measuring the development with the use of a physical game. <br/><br/>This...

The School Party: Teaching networking through serious games

Deeply established into our culture is the conception that everybody succeeds or fails on the grounds of his individual efforts and capabilities. However, success is equally dependent on our relationships with others than it is on ourselves. In order to be successful, happy and healthy a person should not only focus on his personal capabilities,...

Co-design fiction to discover opportunities for internet-of-things applications in crisis management

This master thesis describes the design exploration of a co-creation workshop, namely ‘co-design fiction’, inspired by design fiction to engage the stakeholders, with an emphasis on strategic innovation of internet of things applications in crisis management. Introduction The project is initiated to brings insights for both the content of the...

Improving the Experience of Lumbar Puncture for Children

This report presents a six month project executed for the pediatric hospital Sant Joan de Déu in Barcelona, to improve the experience of lumbar puncture for children between eight and eleven years old. Initially, a literature study is carried out to understand the context, the opportunities, and the requirements of this medical method. Lumbar...

Design for User Engagement on Europeana Channels

As the EU’s most visible expression of European digital heritage, Europeana has established itself as a reference point for European culture on the Internet. With the ambition of moving forward to transform in to an open platform for discovery and re-use of heritage content, Europeana Europeana started up a new project- Europeana Channels....

Auditory feedback on pommel horse: SmartBeat tempo training

A system is developed to help pommel horse gymnasts train their circling tempo in several ways. Auditory feedforward, auditory feedback and textual feedback aftwards give information about their performance.

Discovering yourself in highschool

Koers Control is a game to help high school students discover their core qualities, in order to lower the drop-out rate of first-years students in follow-up education.

Petsekletser, a design that stimulates physical activity in the office

Over the past centuries our way of working has changed drastically. The computer and related technologies play an important role in that. Nowadays, many people work in an office on a computer, causing them to sit a large part of the day. Sitting is comfortable for many people. However, when done for too long or in the wrong position it can lead...

Nourishing engineers’ self-management skills by means of a Product Service System to (re)connect body and mind

Contemporary professional life gives stress for granted; it is not just necessary but an essential part of our lives. Stress is not a problem in itself, without it, we wouldn't feel any motivation to improve our daily life; but when it starts to reach the limits of our tolerance, it can begin to affect our every day, making us feel sick, anxious...

Handbike simulator

This report presents the design research, concept development, user test and final design for the handbike simulator. The handbike simulator is an addition for treadmills developed by ForceLink which allows handbikers to exercise on the treadmills with realistic opposing forces. Next to that it enhances the treadmill experience by offering...