The touch-enabled mobile interface of the future

In close cooperation with MobGen, a full service mobile agency located in Amsterdam, this master graduation project aimed for developing an interface style for touch-enabled mobile devices in the time frame of 2 to 3 years. During the process, a calendar app called FluidCalendar, was designed to embody the new interface style that rethinks and...

Model-Based Impact Analysis of Vehicle-Integrated Photovoltaics and Vehicle-to-Grid on Electric Vehicle Battery Life

Electric vehicles (EVs) equipped with vehicle-integrated photovoltaics (VIPV) and EVs with vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology can support in overcoming power grid challenges emerging from the energy transition. Despite the widespread benefits that VIPV and V2G have to offer, their potential impact on battery life governs their economic viability....

Re-introduced an erased shared identity, between the traces of co-existence: Cyprus, October 1, 2060

The Cyprus island(s) of 2022 is divided into the North and South sides, on the Turkish and Greek sides, since the war of 1974. 47 years of an intentional post-conflict (bio)political process of erasure of the pre-war shared identity between Orthodox and Muslims that leads to a series of critical socio-cultural and environmental conditions. In...

Redesigning social mechanisms in digital calendars to better support a flexible lifestyle

Though lifestyles have become increasingly more flexible in the past few decades with concepts like last-minute bookings and flex working, we still try to plan our lives with a rigid tool: the digital calendar. Calendar42 is a Dutch start-up that strives to re-invent the digital calendar and with that the way people plan their life. Having grown...

Land can sometimes be water: Bridging the dichotomy between land and water through amphibious landscapes

In an excerpt from the fictional work “Waterland” (Swift, 1992), the narrator labels water as “Nothing,” implying land and humans as “Something.” This was more of a philosophical expression that can alternatively be inferred from the real-world processes like land reclamation. Land was always associated with value, stability, certainty and...

Repaper: Meaning and transferring quality of paper

The aim of this project is to explore the territory of paper based materials and interactions of sending postcards. The insights can help us to understand what are the reasons that trigger people to continue using postcards when they have instant messaging tools at hand and how paper materials support it. Furthermore, the results can reflect to...

Development of an event calendar service that triggers people to take part in activities spontaneously.

The purpose of this project was to involve the user in the design process of a calendar service for Sanoma Digital The Netherlands. A contextual research has been done in what way people plan their daily lives, how they experience this and how an information service could support them in planning daily life. The research had lead to the design...