Effect of Relocated Thermal and Pressure Stimuli on Vibrotactile Sensitivity

Relocated haptic feedback from the fingertip to the proximal phalanx can alter the perception of physical interactions by simultaneously displaying relocated multimodal tactile cues. However, how these relocated tactile cues alter the vibrotactile sensitivity of the fingertip remains unclear. This two-site stimulation study employs a...

Beyond a food container: Enhancing the relationship between ultra-processed sustainable food products and consumers through multisensory packaging experience

Consumers encounter many food choices in the supermarket, including ultra-processed food. Observing in the context and reflecting on the daily interactions, these products often present with product identities visually, and the food does not transparently show on the packaging. Consumers can see images of dishes, contextual visuals, labels,...

Restorative ruins: How can the brownfield-urban forest bring forward restorative qualities for human nature?

Brownfields can bring forward unique spatial qualities in the urban environment: spatial exceptionality, re-usable infrastructures & imperfection that could bring forward the experience of being in a whole other world, while being in the middle of a city. However, these sites are often deconstructed, because they lack a direct financial or...

Modeling embodiment during the rubber hand illusion: A dynamical model validated by a time-varied experiment

A common method to investigate multisensory integration is using multisensory illusions. The rubber hand illusion is one of the best-known multisensory illusion used in clinical applications. By stroking a visible rubber hand and the participant’s occluded hand, the illusion arises that the rubber hand belongs to the participant. Possible...

Explore a new haptic reading experience

Today, thanks to digitization, publications are no longer fixed, but dynamic and fluid. The convenience of carrying, the diversity of interaction and the convenience of resource acquisition provided by e-reading make e-reading more and more popular. However, there is still a lot of room for exploration in this field based on the more reading...

Architecture Nose: Towards multisensory architecture, an exploration of the sense of smell

Smells are everywhere around us. They are within ourselves and around us, they impact us in our mother’s womb and throughout our entire lives, until death. But while sight and touch prevail in the contemporary approach of design and architecture, the olfactive dimension of our built environment is often forgotten.<br/>This thesis aims at...

The blind and sighted in tandem: a new, truly inclusive art experience

This graduation project describes the research and design process of taking on several challenges that arise in the context of blind people in the museum. Research showed that blind people are interested in going to museums and exhibitions in general. But most museums do not provide enough information for them to enjoy a museum experience. <br/...

Changing behavior during teleoperation by tricking the brain?: Exploring a practical application of body illusions

Teleoperation is widely used in human-hostile or otherwise inaccessible environments. However, using teleoperation to perform a task is more difficult than performing the task directly. A main factor for this is limited telepresence due to the absence or distortion of natural sensory feedback. An interesting possibility to increase telepresence...

Scoop: A multisensory way of relaxing on festivals

The aim of this project was to create a concept for a suitable relax object for Dutch festivals that offered a unique experience and would provide a successful and profitable entry to the festival market for the new company EventBeds. To understand the context, Dutch festivals were analyzed, underlying user needs to relax were explored, the...

Multisensory design in architecture: Concept development for a multisensory experience in a high school library

DP6 architectuurstudio developed a new high school building for the Sint Nicolaaslyceum in Amsterdam. First a multisensory concept for the library of the new school building was developed using the multisensory design approach from the faculty of industrial design engineering, Delft. The second part consists of a guideline for multisensory...

Communicating Replenishment in Packaging through a Multisensory Design Approach

Sponsored by the Consumer Science department in Groupe Danone France, this design project is aiming to use a Multisensory Design (MSD) approach in developing a new packaging for the ‘Replenishment’ platform in Danone water division. The main design goal is to create a particular drinking experience that could better communicate the most relevant...