Blinking LEDs, a potential solution to improve Augmented Reality interactability

Augmented Reality has the potential to expand our interaction with our surrounding environment. A potential solution to improve this interactability is Visible Light Communication through blinking Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs). Data is encoded and then transmitted by blinking the LED, a smart-phone camera is then pointed at the LED to decode the...

A Creatively Inclusive London?: Nomadic urban creative clusters as drivers of socio-economic integration and spatial quality in peripheral urban areas

As the creative industries started gaining their recognition as beneficial forces for socio-economic transformation in the 1990s, there have been plenty of discussions regarding such phenomenon in urban planning policy and academia. While certain sectors of creative industries are enjoying the economic growth brought by globalisation, some...

Home in the 'valley': A landscape with belongingness

A study on building belongingness through the design of outdoor public spaces in the expatriate community Meerhoven, Eindhoven

Redefining the meaning of Rubroek-Dementia living in Rotterdam

The theme of the project is about implying care into the city and improve the quality of existing neighborhood. Tramendous care is put into the target group dementia people to build up a new and diverse life in the context of existing communinty. The hofje typology is exlored and developed in the project to creat different meanings of outdoor...

Enhancing Daily Digital Communication Through Instinctive Action Tendencies of Emotions

This Master thesis is about research and conceptualization of a digital communication system to enrich expression and interpretation of emotions through sensor technologies in a more humane way. The project has explored and discovered user needs and concerns in digital communication through academic research, preliminary user research. For the...