Designing a method for assessing the societal risks posed by quantum computing on public key infrastructures

Quantum computing presents a threat to the current cryptographic standards in place, supporting our digital scoiety. As our lives are increasingly dependent on electronic transactions, our society becomes increasingly vulnerable to distortions of digital trust. By taking a design science research approach, this thesis designs a risk assessment...

Validation of design for value in social design projects: Presentation of a Value Validation Framework to assess the realisation of values in social design projects, supporting a more profound design for value process

Anno 2021, designers engage with questions of increasing complexity and impact. Designers are involved in creating services and systems that reach beyond an individual user, ultimately reshaping society. This realisation motivates the question of how designers should deal with the accompanying responsibility. The domain of Design for Values (van...

Comparative case study into the barriers that prevent QKD and Tokamak nuclear fusion power plants from large scale diffusion

This research has the aim to investigate the large pre-diffusion period for two<br/>technologies: quantum cryptography and nuclear fusion power plants. Both technologies originate from basic physics research, have a high societal value and are a business to business product. First, a status overview of the technologies is given together with its...

Data-Driven Project Management (DDPM) in the Construction Industry: An Exploratory Study

With the increasing amounts of data generated from various sources, companies are now aware of the data-driven applications more than ever. In the built environment, building or infrastructural projects are handed over as end-product and these projects are complex. Thus, this data disturbance requires multiple ways of project management...