Working from home: Should we stimulate it for transport reasons?: Analysis of travel behaviour during COVID-19 in the Netherlands

The Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management is committed to enhancing the accessibility and sustainability of the Dutch mobility system. Working from home (WFH) has been discussed as a policy lever to decrease commute travel and, thereby, congestion for decades. During the COVID-19 pandemic, this discussion regained momentum. WFH...

Changing attitudes to daily commute due to the pandemic: Working from home, Public transport, Cycling, Car use and ownership. Changing attitudes towards travelling and the environment: a dynamic Q-methodology approach

The COVID-19 pandemic had a strong impact on travel behaviour and Dutch societal perspectives on that travel behaviour. During 2020 and even the first half of 2021, the number of airplane passengers and train passengers saw a massive drop during the pandemic. The car, while definitely affected early in the pandemic, saw less of a drop and car...

The impact of the physical environment on work-related wellbeing: Helping TU Delft student working in a single-room-home

During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, students are having difficulties with working from home. Particularly those living in a single-room-home, where they have to find ways to separate work and private life, while signals from different activities are mixed in a single room. This thesis focussed on helping TU Delft students quickly, as 82% of...

Supporting restoration in the home-work setting: Biophilic design to re-establish the boundaries between work and private life

The amount of people working from home has been increasing. However, working from home has its issues and consequences. The degree to which one experiences recovery from stress and fatigue is limited when working from home, which has consequences on motivation, performance, health, and well-being. The aim of this project was...

Chachat: 
towards a design to support Chinese young adults’ mental health during quarantine in corona crisis

This master graduation project was started from the current issue - COVID 19 crisis, explored a special context - the first quarantined city, Wuhan. The main purpose of this project is to get deeper understanding of the people who were quarantined at home for long time, and try to use interactive design to help them improve their mental states...

Exploring the impact of the sudden shift to fully working remote due to COVID-19 on the productivity of employees of an SME: A case study in a technological start-up environment: Binkies 3D

COVID-19 has affected many economies all over the world. Due to COVID-19 employees worldwide are forced to completely work from home suddenly. There is not much literature yet on the effects of this sudden shift on productivity. This report aims to find the factors that influence productivity most while working remotely. An in-depth single case...

Improving Work-From-Home Satisfaction During COVID-19: Helping homeworkers manage work and family together for better work-from-home satisfaction.

This project deals with the creation of mechanisms for self-assessment in work-from-home (WFH) environments to enhance people's satisfaction. The core of the project lies in increasing WFH satisfaction by incorporating self-experimenting into work and family activities. This relies on the determinants of satisfaction and how homeworkers relate...