Visualization to Enhance Communication in Online Psychological Counselling

How to enhance communication between people is always an interesting topic in the design area. After going through the research, the author set the specific context for online counselling due to the increasing demand for online counselling during the COVID-19 pandemic. The online format limits a lot of non-verbal information like body language,...

Visualization for Better Stakeholder Communication: Design of a visualization strategy tool and an empowering visual tool for multi-stakeholder projects

A Co-Design Tool for Medical Product Development

The client of this graduation project, Dune Innovation, aims to facilitate and execute a structured design process for medical device development. This is a complex task most notably during the early ‘discover’ phase, or fuzzy front end. In medical device development, the first stages of the design process are crucial in ensuring the adoption...

Increasing awareness about gender stereotypes: by sharing multiple perspectives and initiating conversation

Gender stereotypical beliefs play a role in everyone’s life, whether people impose personal and subjective norms on themselves, or judge others based on these existing beliefs. Gender stereotypes present a limited and inaccurate representation of reality’s complexity and have the ability to evoke pain and backlash. The goal of this master’s...

Circular Communities: The circular value flower as a design method for collectively closing resource flows

In Circular Communities, pioneering, collectively supported initiatives that are aimed at closing resource cycles at neighbourhood level take a central position. They are all examples of initiatives that contribute to the transition to a circular economy. For the analysis of these different circular initiatives, the researchers – urban designer...

Enhancing Desirable Food Behaviors by Increasing or Decreasing Disgust: Designing and Testing Infographics

For health and environmental reasons, humanity should reduce the consumption of animal-based products, whereas vegetable consumption should be increased. We created stimuli (drawings with texts) that may be able to increase or decrease the purchasing of mushrooms, cheese, and meat. During the design process, we identified four aspect...

Modelling communication-enabled traffic interactions

A major challenge for autonomous vehicles is handling interactions with human-driven vehicles—for example, in highway merging. A better understanding and computational modelling of human interactive behaviour could help address this challenge. However, existing modelling approaches predominantly neglect communication between drivers and assume...

De Volkskrant as a Digital Service: Accelerating the Digital Transformation of de Volkskrant through Human-Centred Design

This thesis has been written to conclude the master’s programs Design for Interaction and Communication Design for Innovation. The focus of this thesis is on the digital transformation within the de Volkskrant organisation and was commissioned by DPG Media, de Volkskrant’s parent company. <br/>Since the digital transformation started, de...

Design of an external communication system for expressive automated vehicles: Enabling automation transparency in future urban traffic

Future introduction on automated vehicles (levels 3, 4, and 5) in urban traffic comes with several societal benefits, but also challenges. One of the biggest challenges that the research community expects from this introduction is the possible problems or critical situations caused by the lack of interpersonal communication between drivers and...

A haptic language design to enhance the transfer of tacit knowledge: An exploratory case study on the development of a learning community for the 'Centre of Expertise Societal Innovation'

Collaborations are often transdisciplinary whereby people with different backgrounds need to be able to work together and therefore share knowledge. This means people have to cross knowledge boundaries. Crossing these boundaries can be done with boundary objects that help to transfer knowledge across these boundaries (Carlile, 2002, 2004). Touch...

Enhancing the representation of female sexual pleasure: In product design and advertisement media

Female sexuality remains a taboo in our modern society. Women feel shame and social pressure when vocalising their sexual needs and are judged when they express themselves too freely sexually. As our societal view is influenced by the visual design of products and the underlying message they uphold, appropriate visual design can positively...

The design and modelling of spelling paradigms for assistive devices using binary control signals

Patients suffering from diseases affecting verbal communication can make use of assistive devices to improve communication. Some severely disabled patients can only produce yes-or-no responses to communicate. These responses can be created through a physical switch, eye blink, or a 'mental' click created by brain activity. The yes-or-no...

What's mine is ours: Empowering cohousing communities towards self-organization through sharing economy

Our housing market is challenged. Housing prices are rising, and the number of single-person households is increasing, which impacts the affordability of housing. Cohousing offers a possible solution to this problem. However, the level of empowerment of cohousing communities to self-organize is troubled by financial or legal barriers, among...

The Dialogue of the City: Implementing a productive Citizen Participation Method for Urban Node Development, in Delft the Netherlands

Participatory processes have become unexceptional in Dutch planning. Due to the communicative turn in urban planning, collaborative planning moved up on the local and national government agenda: in 2021 the new environmental act will come into place, which firmly encourages participation in an early stage of the process. Within those...

Conversations around design sketches: Use of communication channels for sharing mental models during concept generation

In this paper, we present an exploratory protocol study on the use of different communication channels during design sketching. We focus on how individual designers share their mental models with other designers in a group, and analyze their use of graphical, textual, and verbal communications during concept generation. Our findings suggest that...

Trialogues: A framework for bridging the gap between people research and design

In design research literature, several tools and techniques have been developed that support design teams in establishing creative understandings of people and their contexts of product use, e.g. [1] [2] [3]. Many of these approaches suggest that designers simply adopt the role of people researcher. However, in industrial design practice, the...