Positive Eating: Fostering Wellbeing in Healthy Eating Experiences Supported by AI-Driven Systems

Is healthy eating simply the intake of correct quantities of certain nutrients, regardless of how and where? This project addresses improving wellbeing within the broad context of eating. <br/><br/>Eating-related guidance products have a hyper-focus on nutrition and/or weight loss, to the detriment of a wider definition of “health”. Wellbeing is...

Revitalising Heritage--Christus Triumfatorkerk: A Dutch Postwar Reclamation

National Monument Christus Triumfator church in Bezuidenhout, the Hague was designed by the team D.S.B.V. under Geert Drexhage in 1959-1962, however, among three churches under Drexhage's, only Christus Triumfator church survives in the secularization and shrinking religious community in the Netherlands. The design of Christus Triumfator church...

An effective notch stress concept based total fatigue life estimate of maritime structures

Fatigue is typically a governing limit state for maritime structures, and weld joints are the most critical locations. Various fatigue damage criteria have been developed involving either an intact or cracked geometry parameter, incorporating local or global information. In this thesis, the effective notch stress based total life fatigue damage...

Open the door: Living Environment Design for Reconciling Social Loneliness in Old Age

As part of the studio ‘Designing for Care – towards an Inclusive Living Environment’, which focused on the topics of architectural designs for the elderly, this study specifically aimed at building an open and intimate neighbourhood through connections in answer to the elderly’s urgent problems from aged-related social losses.

Visualisation of the airflow pattern of exhaled droplets in a classroom

The airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in educational buildings has raised concerns during the current COVID-19 pandemic. In this study, a portable fog generator system was designed and assembled to visualise the airflow pattern of exhaled droplets in a classroom. The system consists of five components: medium, fog generator, buffer, pump, and...

Delicious Life: Motivating young Chinese migrants to try novel food

Food is of great significance in the lives of Chinese people. In addition to nutrition, it is also closely related to emotions, social interactions, environment, and culture. China's food culture is not only diverse but also developed its own characteristics in various regions. In recent years, the phenomenon of Chinese young people migrating to...

Enhancing Circularity of KPN In-home Products by Customer Engagement

Many responsible companies are committed to promoting sustainability and circularity, but suffer from not being able to communicate these concepts and efforts to their users and influence them. KPN is one of these companies. This project aims to find effective approaches to communicate with customers so that they can engage more deeply in the...

Design of a future drum kit

As one of the most popular musical instruments, drum kits' design has not changed a lot since it first emerged. However, the product contains some problems which significantly affect user experience. Not to improve the design, this project aims to dig deeper into the world of drum kit and drummers to identify their emotional values and related...

Truthful Trading in Local Energy Markets

With the increasing share of renewable and thus volatile distributed generation<br/>worldwide, small-scale energy producers, prosumers and consumers will become more and more involved in the overall energy system. These small-scale actors were formerly excluded from the energy market, as legislative restrictions about generation size and legal...

Remaking "Nature": An Ecological Transition Towards A Sustainable Landscape

Wetlands are the most important ecosystems on Earth, which can be found in many parts of the world. However, demand for food and economic development in the last century had driven many wetlands in the world being completely drained for cultivation and to the extent that no longer retain any natural wetland characteristics such as the Everglades...

Design For Workflow Intelligence In Cardiology: Prompt User Liaison Service Experience system

Workflow orchestration in healthcare is a desirable field with massive opportunities. Healthcare providers are under pressure to deliver greater value and even faster than ever before. They have to deliver better care at lower cost while serving more patients. A number of integrated solutions are present in the field. However, the need for the...

Enhancing Mobility around Schiphol Airport for International Passengers

This study presents the process and results of the graduation project: Enhancing Mobility Experience around Schiphol Airport for International passengers.This project is part of this project Optimaliseren Mobiliteit rondom Schiphol (in English Optimise Mobility around Schiphol). Within its broad scope, this graduation focuses on Chinese...

A Mobile Roster Application for FlyCo Cabin Crew: Designing a user interface concept for the FlyCo Roster Front-end System

The quantified wheelchair

About 65 million global disable population require a wheelchair to keep mobility. However, long-term depending on wheelchairs has intensified the burden on the social economy and brought enormous challenges to wheelchair users health. Physical issues such as body pain, pressure sore, muscle injury and weakness, and cardiopulmonary weakness...

Minimal Intervention: An Attempt Reading the Ultimate

Norway is mostly known for its natural beauty, fjords and mountains, the amazing Northern Lights and the Midnight Sun - a great intimacy with nature. However, this impression we have of Norway, does not describe the real situation in Oslo.<br/>A total length of approximately 3,400 kilometres of Oslo’s coastline is mostly covered with paved...

Metaphorical and Analogical Thinking in Urban Design and Planning

Metaphorical and analogical thinking is a major aspect of how human intelligence tackles complex tasks in the discipline of urban design and planning. However, there is little research on this subject within urban design and planning, and the research approaches in closely related design disciplines lack a comprehensive view on its presence and...

Yex: Increasing attention of exotic fruits and vegetables in the supermarket

Yex is a company specialized in the import and export of exotic fruits and vegetables. They are solely a B2B company. Yex, however, sees opportunity in creating added value for their customers. Yex want to help their customers sell the exotics fruits and vegetables in the store, with the focus mainly on supermarkets. For this reason, Yex created...