Designing meaningful interaction with mental workload data

Our understanding of mental workload (MWL) is still limited compared to well-known physiological data like blood pressure and heart rate. MWL measures the cognitive resources required for tasks against what's available. Innovative technologies offer more comprehensive and objective cognitive data, but their impact on individuals and their...

Designing Motivational Data for Males with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a serious hereditary muscle disease that almost only occurs in boys and men and causes the muscles to become weaker over time. Given scientific research thus far, they are encouraged to obtain and maintain an active lifestyle. This may help delay the symptoms of the disease and help preserve their upper and...

Mobile tracking application that supports people making sustainable mobility decisions

This project is in collaboration with a start-up company: Thrivey. The product produced by Thrivey is an automatic tracking application (mobility tracker), also named Thrivey, that can track the movement of the user when they carry their smartphone with them. Furthermore, the future vision of Thrivey is to expand its user group and promote more...

Empowering seniors: Design of a tool to support elderly patients and their care network

Research showed how important it is for seniors to feel independent. During the ageing process, seniors go through several events that have great impact on both their physical wellbeing but also on their mental and subjective wellbeing. Leading the senior to feel insecure and sometimes even feel down. One of those events are falls. Falls can...

RiCo: An assistive companion for serious cycling enthusiasts to improve their performance in routine rides

Personal informatics systems are popular: tools to help people improve on their behaviour by collecting and providing personally relevant information about an activity. Companies explore the possibilities to develop products that apply these sorts of systems, as does TomTom. After ten years of developing personal navigation devices successfully,...

Bluebook: An interactive journal for the emotional well-being of prostate cancer patients

Cancer. Probably one of the most feared words when discussing your or a loved one’s health. It is needless to say that the diagnosis of cancer has a big impact on people. The diagnosis and treatment can cause a disruption in their emotional well-being, which can also distress their family and friends. This graduation project eventually focused...

Design of a wearable device that supports self-awareness in children with ADHD by presenting information on attention and time

Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the most commonly diagnosed developmental disorder, affecting between 3 to 5 percent of children worldwide. Characteristics of ADHD are hyperactivity, inattention, impulsiveness and lack of self-control. Current research shows an increased interest in the perception of time in children with ADHD...

Design a weight management product for Chinese young career women

This master thesis shows the studies and design and the process of the project. The first part is an literature study on current weight management products by using personal informatics, an user research to get insight of users' concerns and need of weight management, and the design vision as the result of the first phase of this project. The...