Using data collected by wearables to improve the efficiency of the routine use of family cars

The experience of using a car can be defined as a lot of things. How comfortable it is to drive in? Or just sit in? What entertainment features does the car have that can keep all passengers entertained for a car journey? Or even for the more extreme motor heads, how does the engine sound when going through a tunnel? All of these factors shape...

Improving the daily ICU experience from a critically ill patient's perspective

The intensive care unit (ICU) is a dehumanizing technical environment causing complications that are all captured in the term post-intensive-care syndrome (PICS). The patient’s well-being could be improved by moving away from this hostile environment toward more patient-centred care. Therefore this report explores how to improve the daily ICU...

Daily family routines after Corona times

The COVID-19 pandemic had a major impact on the daily routines of families in the Netherlands. From March 2020, strict measures were taken by the government to prevent the spread of the virus; The Dutch population was under quarantine. This caused many changes in the everyday life of families. Using an exploratory process with six families,...

A routine design strategy to change organisational processes in the front end of radical innovation

For technology firms like Barco, radical innovation a way to escape intense competition, but also crucial for long-term survival as they provide the foundations on which future generations of products are created (McDermott & O’Connor, 2002; Sandberg & Aarikk-Stenroos, 2014). However, a required mature radical innovation capability in...

Redesigning Routines: A visual thinking service for Ink Strategy to activate organisational change

Organisations need to go through continuous change in order to maintain a sustainable competitive advantage. This change is often expressed in a vision which should engage and involve all stakeholders. However, implementing change successfully turns out to be a challenge since two in three change processes stall. Ink Strategy is a visual...

The Visual Storytelling Toolkit: A Way to Engage Employees with their Organization’s Vision

The need for companies to innovate continuously has never been greater, due to the complex and dynamic conditions in which they compete today (Gumusluoglu & Ilsev, 2009; Tellis et. al., 2009). The ones who need to innovate, are the employees of an organization. However, to properly innovate, the employees need to understand and be engaged...

Maya: Smoothen the transition of ‘being awake’ into ‘falling asleep’ aided by an environment, for people who suffer from sleep deprivation

According to the literature, sleep deprivation is becoming more common among women between the age of 35-54. These women are easily affected by stress due to their peculiar hormonal, familial and social conditions. Their lifestyle rhythm is shifting towards a 24/7 time-schedule where there is a massive presence of technologies and stressful...

A Human-like steering model: Based on sensorimotor control theories

The purpose of this study is to develop and validate a Human-like steering model which can capture steering behaviour, including intra-driver variability, in both routine and emergency scenarios. The model is based on the assumption that steering behaviour, in both scenarios, is governed by the same principles as performing point-to-point...

Stimulating interpersonal connectedness: By designing for specified social profiles

An explorative study into elegant designs for connectedness. Three different social profiles are selected based on characteristic social behaviours, norms and values. For these three profiles three conceptual designs are developed and prototyped.

A Culture-Inspired Approach to Designing Sustainable Practice: A study of sustainable bathing practice for the Living Lab project

Introduction: This study explores a method to designing less resource-intensive forms of everyday life. The method is geared toward the early phase of product development, which is the generation of insights and design ideas. Looking at daily behavior, one can observe clear differences between different cultures. From this observation, the study...