Beyond the numbers: A user-centered design approach for personal reflective healthcare technologies

The current healthcare paradigm shifts towards considering the patients’ home as the primary self-care environment. Health care is changing from being solely delivered by professionals in hospitals, to considering daily-life experiences and patients’ personal contexts. In order to meet this paradigm, the interaction between healthcare...

DIY design: Developing a toolkit for the layman designer

This report describes the analysis of design as a profession as opposed to the do-it-yourself practice, and builds upon the results to develop a DIY toolkit that incorporates many design activities and methods found in the professional product design world. this was done by way of a pre-design, in which a small product was first designed. the...

Creating Personal Space and Intimacy in Shared Cars

This graduation thesis has the goal of understanding shared car environments with the purpose of creating personal space and privacy for the occupants. First carsharing and carpooling have been examined, followed by an in depth literature research in the field of personals space. To validate some of the findings from the literature research and...

Meta-levels in design research: Resolving some confusions

Doing design and doing research are related activities. When doing design in a (PhD) research project, a number of confusions pop up. These confusions stem from the fact that most of the basic terms, such as ‘designer’, ‘research’, and ‘product’, have many connotations but not a shared definition. Because design research often happens in a multi...

Redesigning social mechanisms in digital calendars to better support a flexible lifestyle

Though lifestyles have become increasingly more flexible in the past few decades with concepts like last-minute bookings and flex working, we still try to plan our lives with a rigid tool: the digital calendar. Calendar42 is a Dutch start-up that strives to re-invent the digital calendar and with that the way people plan their life. Having grown...

Shareworks: A web platform to support project courses

The continuous rise of internet solutions in everyday life and business is resulting in a growing awareness that higher education should embed more Web2.0 technologies in the learning process. 65% of higher education institutions now say that online learning is a critical part of their long-term strategy (Allen & Seaman, 2011). Blended learning...

Research & Development of Mobile Research Tool

This master thesis describes an exploratory research and design process towards concepts that support consumer research to achieve the deeper information in an enterprise’s view. To understand the background of Winkle as well as the mobile platform, and get insight in the mobile behavior, three studies were carried out: Winkle internal research,...