Towards a more nature-inclusive and climate resilient built environment: A framework and tool for the economic valuation of the costs and benefits associated with the implementation of vertical greening systems on buildings

The application of vertical greening systems (VGS) onto building envelopes constitutes an innovative way to implement more green in the living environment. Especially in dense urban areas, where only limited space is available to integrate more horizontal greening at ground level, VGS have the potential to contribute towards creating a greener,...

Exploiting the full potential of Guiding Ideas to inspire and coordinate all brandbuilders in Brand Experience design: A Guiding Idea tool

Consumers no longer buy products. They buy brands. The power of a brand lies in what consumers have “learned, felt, seen, and heard about the brand as a result of their experiences through interaction with brand’s touchpoints “(Keller, 2013, p. 69)). The designing of these experiences is called Brand Experience Design.<br/>Brands have become one...

Design for collective family experiences during online grocery shopping

Doing groceries is an inherent part of family life (Pettersson, Olsson, &amp; Fjellström, 2004). Families are recognized as a unit for food choice and consumption. The influence of family members on food choices happens throughout family life and takes place in the private home or in the public sphere, mainly grocery stores. Picnic is an online...

TelaSol: A Coach Cockpit Application

Team Sunweb, a professional cycling team and our client, is constantly looking for innovations to help them win races. They tasked us with creating an application which could assist coaches with determining the strategy during a race. This application, which we dubbed TelaSol, is supposed to run on a tablet that is mounted on the dashboard...

Compliant Remote-Center-of-Motion Mechanism Optimized for Energy-Dispersive Spectroscopy

In-situ sample holders with double-tilting capabilities are used to insert and position samples inside a transmission electron microscope for dynamic imaging. However, the performance of these sample holders, regarding energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) analysis, is not on par with their single-tilt counterparts. By analyzing the EDS...

DESIGNHUIS: Powerhouse for Transformation

This Master thesis report covers the process of developing a service platform for the facilitation of the creative industry in collaboration with the DesignHu- is, based in Eindhoven. Using input from the community in Eindhoven a po- sitioning statement is made for the DesignHuis and the needs of the Creative community in Eindhoven. Based on the...

The Wharf Bath

Development of a cold pack for treating sports injuries.

The project includes literature- and field studies to identify the needs of the athlete and the sports club concerning cooling of sports injury. Based on the findings a product line is designed that better addresses the needs of the users. The product line proposal consists of two cold packs intended for single use at the sports club. One cold...