Stimulating elderly in care homes to move using Tovertafel games

As the pressure on elderly care is strong, preventive policy for health care is therefore essential. The goal of prevention for elderly is to keep older adults healthy, autonomous and independent as long as possible, even when they already need daily care. A preventive measure which is increasingly gaining popularity over the past few years is...

Maintaining consumer motivation in digital loyalty programs

Loyalty programs are mainly implemented to build up the relationship between the company and the customer, i.e. to increase the customer loyalty. This has both social and financial benefits for the customer (e.g. feeling of community, discounts, etc.) as well as for the company (e.g. better relationship with customers, increase share-of-wallet,...

Maintaining consumer motivation in digital loyalty programs

Loyalty programs are mainly implemented to build up the relationship between the company and the customer, i.e. to increase the customer loyalty. This has both social and financial benefits for the customer (e.g. feeling of community, discounts, etc.) as well as for the company (e.g. better relationship with customers, increase share-of-wallet,...

Design for positive engagement on future personal financial management

This project proposed a design solution of positive engagement on personal financial management (PFM) with the help of mobile technology. The end goal of creating engaging PFM is to improve (young) people’s financial well-being. The project identified young bank users as the target user group, who was found to have low financial capability. In...

‘Extending the contextmapp: Enhancing user involvement in the design process'

Involving users in the design process of products and services in order to increase the added value for these users is becoming more common. The company Contextmapp was aware of this trend. It wanted to extend its mobile application ‘Contextmapp’, which was used for gathering insights on users’ needs. A suitable graduation assignment was...

Fysio Compass: Increasing active patient engagement in telephysiotherapy

This thesis investigates the challenge of increasing patient exercise adherence in a self-managed telephysiotherapy setting concerning opportunities of persuasive design interventions. It shows how active patient engagement can be increased by combining offline and online solutions that mutually support each other in guiding the patient and...

Tic Tac Tiles: An interactive activity unit for children in the Playscape

This master thesis shows the process and results of the design project ‘Tic Tac Tiles - An interactive activity unit for children in the Playscape’ Introduction At this moment the therapists of the Child Development and Exercise Centre of the Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital have problems to motivate the older children (9-15 years) to exercise,...

Improving the effectiveness of online dialogue

This graduation report describes the process towards the development of a framework for designers of online platforms. The framework provides the designers with structure and insights for applying alternative tools within online platforms to enhance the effectiveness. Delft University of Technology and the company Favela Fabric in Amsterdam...

Walking and Talking: Using persuasive game elements to increase physical activity

Physical activity (PA) benefits a healthy condition. On the broader canvas public health benefits from promoting a healthy lifestyle, which includes sufficient PA. Apart from the lives that are improved, The financial merit of improved public health is substantial. Walking is deemed one of the most effective forms of PA. It is for this reason...