Conceptual design of a carrier-pod aircraft configuration

Whether travelling by aircraft, train or roads or a combination thereof, the EU aims to reduce the door-to-door travel time within Europe to approximately four hours overall travel time. This goal is hard to reach, especially when flights already take three hours or more. Since aircraft realistically can’t fly faster without going supersonic or...

Smart indoor environment design for high performance buildings

The purpose of the project is to design an interactive smart indoor environment concept which can adapt to users’ behaviour and cognition. Feasibility, technology limitation and financial restrictions should be taken into account. The design proposal should be feasible within 5-10 years.

MySeat: Development of a user focused aircraft seat

This master thesis shows the research and development of a user focused aircraft seat. The project is done in collaboration with Zodiac Seats US, an aircraft seats manufacturer. Contrary to the traditional technological approach used in the aircraft industry, this project has its focus mainly on the experiences of passengers during long haul...

Aircraft Interior Design 2050

As the role of cross-continental air travel becomes increasingly crucial and common, the importance of in-flight comfort and experience also enhances. However, the current aircraft interior is commonly considered as providing an unpleasant and dreadful experience, especially in a long distance flight. Since the travel pattern and perceptions in...

Blinq: Increasing effective face-to-face communication between colleagues in flexible office environments

Modern offices’ employees are strug- gling to find their colleagues. Flexible work hours and activity related workplaces make it dif- ficult to find each other in the fast paced office environment. Organizations are battling the de- crease in face-to-face contact by encouraging their workers to use remote communication tools such as Short Text...

Design a Comfortable Laptop Bag for Fashion-conscious Professionals

The graduation project has three phases. The first phase is aimed to conduct market analysis and comfortableness criteria exploration in order to establish design objective and design criteria. The design objective is “Design a stylish, protective and two-year durable laptop bag for the target life style segment, which is also comfortable to use...

A Future Workstation environment concept

Lensvelt the company has always been progressive in its market. It aims to produce products that have great aesthetic value and work well. Its products are made by well-known and established designers. On the market Lensvelt is in, however, a lot of copying and stealing takes place, and successful, original products do not stay original for long...

An innovative backseat for comfortable working and relaxing in a car

BMW envisions a future where cars will drive on their own without humans needing to control it. This will change the way people are sitting in their cars, since they are able to use this time for working and relaxing. In preparation to this development, the company is now interested in the design of a back seat where the passengers can relax,...

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...

Using Dynamic Seat Allocation to Improve Aircraft Comfort

Inspired on an ergonomic study on the in- and egress of persons with reduced mobility in aircraft I developed an algorithm to improve the comfort of individual passengers by allocating them specific seats. The algorithm uses information which is already at the disposal of airlines to specify certain groups of passengers. Based on their group,...

Chameleon: A customized chair for the homeworker

The way we work is changing dramatically as a result, work trends are developing suchs as New Ways of Work (NWW), Flexible Work and the increase of teleworkers. These trends have in common that the workplace is shifting towards the home environment. According to the 'Nationale Enquête Arbeidsomstandigheden 2011' there are one million dutch...

Bicycle Ergonomics: Handlebars to stimulate the correct bicycle posture and minimize the risk of overuse injuries

Riding a bicycle is common for many people. Bicycle ergonomics on the other hand are less common for most of use, while it is very important for the overall experience of the bicycle. The knowledge of these ergonomics ends with frame size and saddle height. Santos, a Dutch bicycle manufacturer, strives for high quality bicycles and therefore...

Spelenderwijs leren reorganiseren

New Ways of Work is an organizational model in which the physical, virtual and behavioral environments are optimized to each other so that the organization can embrace time and location-independent working. Due to the holistic design approach of these environments, a situation is created in which the entire organization can function more...

The design of the Ideal Experience of a Commercial Suborbital Spaceflight

This graduation project provides an answer to the question: “What user experience should be offered to the participants at what moment in the entire suborbital spaceflight experience?” by defining ‘a moment’ and designing the experience that should be offered at that moment. Abstract Despite the rapid development in the suborbital spaceflight...

Designing the comfort of the future car

This graduation project focuses on a combination of the following; cars, comfort and the future. Two of these elements seem hard to grasp, and one moves the world. Together they form the ingredients for an interesting challenge; how can we provide comfort to the occupants of future cars? The power consumption of comfort features in a fuel...