Design Guidelines for Human-Agent Collaboration in a Painting Context: Authority, Autonomy, and Delegation

This project focuses on developing design guidelines for Human-Agent Collaboration around Authority, Autonomy, and Control in the outdoor painting context. While painting as an activity is something most of us have done and understand, working professionals have a sense of pride and skill in their motions that would be difficult to replace with...

Bots for Pull Requests: The Good, the Bad, and the Promising

Software bots automate tasks within Open Source Software (OSS) projects’ pull requests and save reviewing time and effort (“the good”). However, their interactions can be disruptive and noisy and lead to information overload (“the bad”). To identify strategies to overcome such problems, we applied Design Fiction as a participatory method with 32...

Designing Unique Emotions for Autonomous Delivery Robots

Robotic delivery services can provide contactless delivery, a highly sought-after service under mandates of social distancing since the coronavirus pandemic has arisen. With the rise of autonomous delivery robots, humans' and robots' collaborative existence has become a crucial topic to be discussed. This graduation project aimed to explore the...

Boundless Collaboration: A post-pandemic vision for distributed teams

This thesis describes the design journey that resulted in a post-pandemic vision for distributed teams and the development of a concept to fulfil the lack of spontaneous encounters in hybrid working environments. The research follows two different approaches, the double-diamond and the Dive method and includes extensive literature review, remote...

Dynamic Port-City Scapes: From Liminal "Non-Places" to Imaginative and Synergistic Adaptive Ecosystems

This research investigates the case of Kirkenes, Norway. The region with its 10.000 inhabitants is located around 400 km above the Arctic Circle within the municipality of Sør-Varanger, Finmark, and is known as the capital of the Barents Region and the gateway to the east. Located around 15km away from the Norwegian-Russian border, Kirkenes has...

Naturally, a port city often shrinks: Nature-based adaptation for Wadden Sea Den Helder coast

The North Sea has played an important role in European urbanization. Coastal cities thrive on the basis of port economy; but also shrink significantly once the dominated industry recessed. Today, under the threat of climate change, port-dominated homogenous development becomes rather vulnerable to disturbances. Den Helder is the Wadden port-city...

The wardrobe as a system: Exploring clothing consumption through design fiction

This study offers a new perspective on clothing consumption by uncovering the systemic nature of the wardrobe. The research builds on systems theory and aims at drawing a map of the wardrobe as a system with particular structure and behaviour. By co-designing fictional 'smart wardrobe' services with experts and discussing these services with...

Filming Future: Designing the Interactivity of Products

Products become increasingly interactive. These intelligent objects respond to user activity, particularly in a visual way. This report presents a research trough design project, on how to use video to design the interactive behavior of highly innovative products. It focuses particularly on designing products with a ‘skin’ made from the Light...

Vision Concepts within the landscape of design research

In the landscape of design research, several techniques of speculative design -or design about ideas- have been positioned, each with a different time<br/>frame. Design Fiction and Critical Design, for instance, emerged as making activities that explore the near and the speculative future, respectively. We previously defined<br/>Vision Concepts...

Co-design fiction to discover opportunities for internet-of-things applications in crisis management

This master thesis describes the design exploration of a co-creation workshop, namely ‘co-design fiction’, inspired by design fiction to engage the stakeholders, with an emphasis on strategic innovation of internet of things applications in crisis management. Introduction The project is initiated to brings insights for both the content of the...