Eating and drinking in Dutch hospice care: Coping difficulties and conflicts

People with a life-limiting illness, and everyone closely involved, face many struggles throughout the illness. One of those struggles is related to the diminishing appetite for food and drinks. In Dutch hospice care institutions this struggle has also become apparent with their residents. When they see those near and dear urge their loved one...

Sound Cultures of Critical Care: How design could tune sound-related practices of intensive care nurses

The intensive care unit (ICU) is a special department of the hospital that admits critically ill patients who need intensive monitoring, supporting, and/or take-over of one or more of their vital functions. The patients are monitored and supported by medical equipment as well as a team of intensivists, nurses and other medical staff members 24/7...

Culture driven co-creation: Guidelines for Super Moderators in U_CODE project

The U_CODE (Urban Collective Design Environment) project started to create an environment for urban co-creation with citizen. To achieve this, U_CODE has designed and developed a new kind of participatory platform for different European countries. To have an effective co-creation session, U_CODE facilitators need to have a good knowledge and...

Anima: Development of a product that supports healthy eating and wellbeing of Millennials suffering from Bulimia Nervosa

Anima is a new product service that aims to help people suffering from B.N during the maintenance stage. This means that once the patient is out from therapy, there are still some chances of having a relapse episode, that is why a solution to keep a balanced and healthy lifestyle is needed. It is an in-home product that the user should use on a...

HelloPreggo!: A tool that encourages pregnant teenagers to eat healthy during their pregnancies

This thesis walks the reader through the research and design process of ‘HelloPreggo!’, a tool developed for pregnant teenagers to guide them towards a healthier nutritional lifestyle during pregnancy. To start off, both literature and empirical research have been conducted on teenagers who are pregnant in the Netherlands in order to understand ...

In the Pocket: Motivation despite Automation

The focus of this project is a two-fold: First and foremost to design a product that stimulates interaction between humans and machines. This interaction should be motivating and encouraging. Therefore, contributing to the values and needs of users. This project demonstrates the value of gamification and intuitive design. These have a positive...

Experiential travel in Curaçao: A design for historical museums to support visitors’ immersion into the island’s culture

Experiential travel is a form of tourism in which people focus on experiencing a country, city or particular place by connecting to its history, people and culture. The Curaçao Tourist Board (CTB) is the official government entity that promotes foreign visits, tourism, for the island of Curaçao and is responsible for “the brand” Curaçao. This...

WeFarm: Development of an in-home cultivator targeting the European market

Sherpa Space Inc., a South Korean startup located in Daejeon, aimed to develop an innovative home appliance capable of growing high-quality medicinal and edible plants by combining aeroponic agriculture with their own patented lighting technology.<br/>To do so, they envisioned a whole service behind the device, which included supplying consumers...

Prototyping Policy for Participation: An experience-based game that stimulates an intercultural dialogue about the dutch core values

As of October 2017 the Civic Integration Act (WI 2013) (Rijksoverheid, 2017) states that all non-EU newcomers that want to integrate in The Netherlands have to participate in the Participation statement procedure (PSP). As part of this procedure newcomers have to sign that they understand and respect the Dutch core values: freedom, equality and...

Satiating and Conscious Snacks: Facilitating Healthy eating experiences by manipulating food textures

This report is the graduation thesis for the Master of Design for Interaction, Faculty of Design Engineering at Delft University of Technology. The report presents a set of guidelines showing the relationships between food textures and conscious and satiating snacking experiences. As a designer, food textures can be considered as tools to shape...

Good MoUrning: Design for pet loss

How important is the loss of a companion animal? The nub of the question is, how we understand the meaning of a companion animal in our life. Therefore, we could step in the situation of how the owners cope with the grief over losing their companion animals. This thesis concerned the most cruel but inevitable life event people would experience...

Connecting kids with nature through play: A development strategy for UNGA

This graduation project presents a strategy roadmap for the development of an innovative and educational gardening toy for UNGA. The roadmap intends to act as an organizational tool for the company, to have a holistic overview of the new product development process from the start to the end. This is done by showing the links between solid...

Designing the Middellandstraat Food Journey: An initiative to revitalize a multicultural shopping street

The project is an initiative to revitalize a multicultural shopping street in Rotterdam, called Middellandstraat. The design question was how to support the shops to attract more visitors to the shopping street through the food diversity. Investigations into the visitors' experience in the street, the context, and market research were done to...

Cambodian Delights: A multi-cultural exploration into the acceptation of insects as ingredients

This master thesis project describes the process of the designing of a model that offers a way to improve the acceptation of insects as ingredients.<br/>The final designs show an answer to the assignment: a product or product service combination, which contributes to increasing (multi contextual) insect consumption by improving the acceptation ...

Design for disclosure: Supporting victims of sexual violence in sharing their experiences

This thesis describes the process of the development of the toolkit: Durf te delen (Dare to share). A toolkit to support both a victim of sexual abuse and her confidant (person of trust) during the process of disclosing the experience with sexual abuse. This thesis focuses on female victims, due to the fact only women participated in the...