Connected Resources: A Research through Design Approach to Designing for Older People’s Resourcefulness

The project aims to encourage "young-older people" to age resourcefully. Although they are better at appropriating artefacts, technologies, and other people available around them to solve challenges as they age, the current "smart products" for those people do not allow them to do so because of their use scenarios rigidly prescribed. To...

Simulation of Product Performance Based on Real Product-Usage Information: First Results of Practical Application to Domestic Refrigerators

Today’s connected products increasingly allow us to collect and analyze information on how they are actually used. An engineering activity where usage data can prove particularly useful, and be converted to actionable engineering knowledge, is simulation: user behavior is often hard to model, and collected data representing real user...

Connecting Swapfiets: Integrating a user facing tracking service into a bicycle light

This graduation project aims to design a data driven service system for Swapfiets. The designed system allows users to locate their bicycle if they have trouble finding it. Other data driven services using the information are explored. The device is designed to be integrated into a bicycle light and capable of sustaining itself for its energy...

Diem: An animated house that cares with Intent

CONTEXT With the rise of smart connected products the user will have more and more products to monitor and control directly (and remotely). Although these products bring us new benefits, these products also have downsides. Connected products are significantly more complex. Not only installing a connected product requires more steps, but also the...

Taking Advantage of Data Generated by Products: Trends, Opportunities and Challenges

Now that all kinds of products are increasingly getting connected to the Internet, it is expected that it will become easier to collect data on how they are actually used during the middle-of-life stage of their product lifecycles. At the same time, a growing number of data analytics technologies offers opportunities to transform this data into...