Designing a Smart Speculum for Low Resource Settings: The Impact of Contextual Factors on the Design of a Point of Care Cervical Cancer Screening Device

Cervical Cancer (CC) is a preventable disease and is easily treated when detected early. Yet it is the second most prevalent cancer related death in Cameroon, causing an estimated 1787 deaths each year (Woks et al, 2023). Cameroon has implemented no national strategy to prevent this disease and so screening practices that are in place are...

Pin model as a design tool: Affordable upscaling of pin-type models for physical mass analysis of urban, rural, and complex building sites

Architects and urban planners still rely on physical models in the design process, particularly for urban contexts. However, developing such models can be time-consuming and resource-intensive, despite the abundance of digital information available. This study investigates the feasibility of using pin-type models, specifically in the concept and...

Designing Outdoor Inclusion: Improving diversity and inclusivity in outdoor sports through co-creation

Outdoor sports, such as surfing, mountaineering and skiing, are historically exclusive. For years, those sports and their communities were dominated by a white athletic male culture and were far from diverse. This homogeneous environment was, and sometimes still is, reflected within the outdoor industry. Thus, for years, outdoor brands,...

StructuralComponents 8: Facilitating early structural integration in conceptual building design with a force flow design tool

The objective of this project is to devise and develop a design tool that lets the user explore different force flows during conceptual design, with the goal to inform different geometries, thereby realizing an integrated design process. Key characteristics that this tool must incorporate to be successful are defined as feedback (the ability to...

The Self-Organization of Stuff

The common description of the configuration of stuff in a room, one of order (tidy) and chaos (messy), fails to explain the phenomenon that artifacts create structures around people and activities in a space, with both functional and cognitive properties. This form of organization, that is recognizable on various scale levels, emerges...

Multibody Superyachts: An energy consumption analysis of multibody concepts including battery-powered bodies

Two important trends can be witnessed in the world of superyachts. Firstly, the luxury landscape is shifting from collecting tangible assets to pursuing exclusive tailor-made experiences. The second trend is the electrification and the use of batteries on superyachts. Due to the increase of emission restrictions, there is more interest towards...

Performance-based form-finding and material distribution of free form roof structures: Implementation in the Post Rotterdam Case Study

The redevelopment of the Post Rotterdam building and, in particular, the design proposal of the vertical foyer initiated this research project. The foyer has a special design and as a result, a special analysis method has to be used. The desired material is steel, consequently stiffened steel shell structure was deemed the most appropriate...

Brand Sync: A creativity tool for the designers of Fabrique that facilitates brand-based thinking

This master thesis is about the design process of the modern creatives who work at Fabrique, a design agency in the Netherlands. To many the process of designing as successfully As Fabrique, can seem otherworldly. As Arthur C. Clarke once so aptly wrote: “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” So how can Fabrique...

Development of a Two-Dimensional Resonator Design Tool

One of the engineering challenges in high-field MRI is to have a homogeneous distribution of the RF magnetic field inside human tissue. In this project we develop a design tool for a HEM wrist applicator that has the ability to generate a homogeneous magnetic field inside human wrist. By taking into account the dominant RF scattering effects...

IAmMyHome; Designing homes with meanings: Construction of a design tool based on human values

Houses were among the first structures that were built, and remain the most common type of building today. The design of housing has been the subject of architecture, while from a psychological point of view the meaning of home has been a major subject of research. These two different viewpoints are combined in this research to provide a tool...

Cleo: The Hands-on Design Tool for Conceptualizing Interactive Spaces

PLATFORM------- Interactive (technology-enhanced) spaces are becoming omnipresent in our modern world. Designers and companies alike are learning that technology can change people?s impression of a sample of physical space in such a way that yields profit and creates meaning. In the business of designing interactive spaces, there is a dependency...

The development of a Product Service System for a Bugaboo stroller

In this thesis a product service system for a Bugaboo stroller is developed. The main objectives are to come up with a PSS that has benefits for people, planet and profit. The objectives are defined as follows: 1. People: The PSS should convince people to lease a stroller instead of buying one. 2. Planet: The PSS should be a sustainable...

Design for Package Experience: Design tool for integrating user experience into the development process of Packaging at Philips Consumer Lifestyle

This report documents research about designing for package experience in the process of the Packaging department (PAC) of Philips Consumer Lifestyle in Drachten. Package experience which is defined as the whole customer journey with Philips CL packages in contradiction to the term ‘unpack experience’ this term covers not only unpacking and...

Acoustic design of Schools

This report is a research to acoustic design of schools. It gives an overviews and tools for architects to improve/ control the acoustic and noise in their design. Acoustic is one of must important aspect in an open-plan school. This aspects and other inner climate aspects, do not receive enough attention. This report was part of my gradution...

Designing Perceptual Persuasion

Websites have become important means for companies to create revenue. It is important for these websites that as many visitors as possible take the desired action that ultimately leads to the revenue for the website owners. The ratio of visitors who take this call-to-action relative to the number of total website visits is called the conversion...

Development of a design tool for offshore wind farm layout optimization: Consideration of wake effects and electrical infrastructure costs and losses

A design tool has been developed with the aim of helping in the wind farm design process. The tool is able to handle rectangular layouts with any number of turbines. Wind farm power, as well as wind and site conditions can be specified by the user. The main tool models are described and the developing steps have been detailed. Results of tool...

Development of a design tool for the integration of public art in a built environment

Public art is the artwork in any media that has been planned and executed with the specific intention of being sited or staged in the public domain, which is accessible to all. Public art can be preformed in different manners: permanent or temporary, art installation or art promotion events or programs. For large public building projects almost...