Framing the opportunities of robotics in meaningful autonomous vehicle experiences: An exploration of fundamental needs, AI-systems, and user interfaces

Vehicle automation will increasingly release car drivers from driving tasks, allowing them to engage in previously inconceivable activities. Experiential components are therefore expected to become central in human automotive mobility. In this context, the design of future in-vehicle experiences is a research gap to still discover, that concerns...

Designing for Well-being during Covid-19: Converting daily activities into [un]conscious pursuits of joy

The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has led to an unprecedented public health crisis worldwide starting from the early days of 2020. Alongside the medical concerns, a set of measures called non-pharmacological interventions (NPIs) affected daily lives of people drastically, in turn having a negative impact on subjective well-being (Berg, 2021; Wang et...

Designing a more inclusive museum experience: A strategic service concept to contribute to inclusion in the museum sector, by facilitating a mutually beneficial relationship between museums and their audiences

This project is about inclusion in the museum sector. Concerns around inclusion and equality are rapidly increasing. And, due to these societal dynamics, museums are in times of fundamental change towards inclusivity.<br/><br/>At the start of the project, a theoretic framework depicting the different layers and elements of inclusion was...

Exploring perspectives in the public debate with emotional awareness: Design to reduce polarization

The term ‘polarization’ has become well-known in the public debate. In January 2019, the SCP (Netherlands Institute for Social Research) reported that 77% of the Dutch citizens think disagreements on social issues increase. As we mostly hear and see the more extreme and opposing sides in the media, it seems like society is divided about many...

Vitesse Buiten Spel: Balancing entertainment and social value to create relatedness and belonging among the younger supporters

This graduation project focuses on balancing entertainment and social value of football to create relatedness and belonging among the younger supporters in Arnhem and Vitesse. Relatedness and belonging are two of the thirteen fundamental needs defined by Desmet and Fokkinga (2018). Designing for fundamental needs is one of the eight approaches...