Using Social Signal Processing and Conversational Agent To Aid People in their Negotiation Skills: Self-awareness through Mimicry

Negotiation is not a skill that comes naturally to most people. However, most people could benefit from attaining good negotiation skills. Non-verbal behaviour plays an important role in negotiations. Previous studies have shown a link between mimicry through conversational agents and self-regulation of non-verbal behaviour. The current study...

Beyond the wrapper: Uncovering the effect of explicit and implicit packaging design cues on consumer perception and sustainable disposal behaviour

In pursuit of a more sustainable future, more and more firms are seeking alternative sustainable packaging and corresponding packaging communication strategies to signal its eco-friendliness and stimulate ecological consumer behaviour. Despite the majority of research focusing on the pre-purchase stage of the packaging life cycle, limited...

Improving Shared Understanding with Hart: designing a telemonitoring smart care agent to support transcatheter aortic valve implantation patient care in perioperative journey

This master thesis explores how Philips wearable the biosensor can bring value in the cardiovascular disease care pathway. This project proposes a concept of product-service system to improve patient care in transcatheter aortic valve stenosis implantation (TAVI) perioperative journey. Aortic valve stenosis (AS) is one of the most common and...

Position and communicate the value of an emerging frozen food service system

This project intends to develop the initial brand communication strategy for Foodtrick, an emerging frozen food service system that attempts to expand its business into the B2B market. The system provides a simplified cooking procedure to tackle operational hurdles in the food service industry, such as labour shortage and increasing food wastage...

Designing and evaluating a social VR clinic for knee replacement surgery

Knee osteoarthritis, the most common form of arthritis, which results in stiffness, pain, and impaired movement, is a major cause of disability in elderly populations around the globe. In the course of treating this disease, patients have to endure enormous pains travel to hospitals to meet medical professionals. The motivation behind this...

Together anywhere, together anytime: Strategic design for connected lobby to enhance family "Togetherness" by balancing "Awareness" and "Privacy"

This report describes the process of the graduation project of Xu Chen. The project was carried out for Philips Consumer Lifestyle Netherlands on TA2 project and under supervision of the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at the Delft University of Technology. TA2, Together Anytime, Together Anywhere, is a large integrated multimedia...