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Alers, T.J. (author), Fennema, B.A. (author), van Breukelen, J.J. (author)
Laryngectomised people (LP) have many problems with speaking in terms of intelligibility, volume and effort it takes. This thesis describes the design and simulation of a voice enhancement device which will improve the speech of LP with respect to intelligibility and volume. It only describes the chosen hardware peripherals in order to record,...
bachelor thesis 2020
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Rufas Talamàs, Bet (author)
In the Roadmap of 2025, EURO NCAP has announced that it will reward car manufacturers that include Child Presence Detection (CPD) technologies in their vehicles starting from 2022. Additionally, seat belt detectors are currently based on pressure sensors which can be falsely triggered with large objects placed on the seats. By basing the...
master thesis 2022
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Shih, Yi-Chen (author)
Borders affect both spatial properties and human behaviors. The way people experience spaces determines the thickness of borders, and the thickness is the space of threshold. This architectural concept is inspired by the architectural elements – door which involves a character of connection and separation. The duality of interface challenges the...
master thesis 2021
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Liu, Lu (author)
During the last decades, people detection has received great attention in computer vision and pattern recognition because of its various applications. Though there are thousands of papers provide approaches for people detection, most of them focus on datasets from side view. People detection from overhead cameras, as an important situation for...
master thesis 2018
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Song, Yue (author)
Improving the quality of urban spaces has always been the central concern for the urban designers. Street as the typical type of public spaces comprises more than 80% of public space in cities, but they often fail to provide a space where people can safely walk, bicycle and socialize, this mainly because cars dramatically occupies most street...
master thesis 2019
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Mu, Xiufan (author)
The density of elderly population in Central City of Beijing is relatively high compare to that in peri urban area, which resulting in the urban disease, scarcity and low quality of public spaces in the city center. However, in Beijing, the main demands of elderly people have incline to the social needs and social participation, instead of...
master thesis 2018
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Eikelboom, Rivka (author)
The starting point for this graduation project was a fascination with how architects can design for people who live at the margins of society, people that are invisible to many. The research was an investigation into places of belonging of displaced people in the Netherlands. In this case, the term displaced people was used for refugees, asylum...
master thesis 2023
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Bekker, Bernard (author)
Large cities in the Netherlands, like Rotterdam, have hundreds of playgrounds, but local governments have little information on how children and adults use them. Usage data can help create playgrounds that better fit with the residents' needs by identifying what elements of a playground are the most popular, and which do not get used. The AMS...
master thesis 2020
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Gunay, A. (author)
User experience with public products needs special attention considering the specific context. Different from other consumer or personal products that users own, public products do not belong to the user; they are shared with and used in front of other people. Thus, different concerns and problems are incorporated affecting the user experiences....
master thesis 2011
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Nagtzaam, H.A.H. (author)
The goal of this study is to improve design support for designers at Philips Design. Philips Design is organized to be completely ‘people centric’: their products fully aim to fulfill user needs and wishes. To achieve this, the employees are supported by the High Design Process. It enables them to do people centric innovation for the Business....
master thesis 2011
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Bagchi, Madhubanti (author)
Recently non-image-based data capturing methods such as sensors like RF, ultrasonic or radars, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, etc for People Counting (PC) applications have gained momentum as an alternative to camera-based systems due to the preference for privacy preservation. Among them mm-wave radars are a strong choice for data capture since they consume...
master thesis 2023
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Chininthorn, P. (author)
“Deaf” with a capital “D” refers to a group of people who are deaf and rely mainly on sign language to communicate. Most Deaf people in South Africa are functionally illiterate. They claimed that they are in need of a practical tool, which would help them to communicate better with hearing people, especially in the healthcare context. Following...
master thesis 2011
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Heitbrink, E.F. (author)
It is estimated that approximately 320,000 people in the Netherlands are visually impaired, some of which also have other physical or mental disabilities. The combination of disabilities can have profound impact on a person’s daily life. One of the encountered difficulties is a disrupted time perception. With a visual impairment the sensory...
master thesis 2016
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Takada, Akari (author)
With the rise of digital technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, and sensor technologies, all the products we use every day are increasingly becoming ‘intelligent’. Machines, objects, and tools are slowly evolving into robots, objects-with-intent (Rozendaal et al., 2019), and agents. At the same time, their capabilities...
master thesis 2022
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Gong, Haotian (author)
This project aims to improving the care service for people with dementia who exhibits BPSD (Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia) by providing the relevant stakeholders data insights, and meanwhile improving these people’s working efficiency.
master thesis 2019
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Gezgin, Kagan (author)
The Dutch government has issued a legislation that follows the Paris Agreement of 2016. This legislation means that all office buildings in 2023 must have minimum energy label C while the ambition in 2030 is to have energy label A and in 2050 zero energy buildings. It is estimated that currently more than half of the office buildings in the...
master thesis 2018
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Owusu, I.A. (author)
To date, there are only few scientifically comprehensive studies that investigate the conceptual description of emotion elicitation processes by design with actually applying them. The present interdisciplinary thesis project aimed at applying a design process resulting in an interactive prototype that provides empirical evidence for targeted...
master thesis 2012
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Boyuklieva, Alina (author)
In the recent years, many older buildings are being transformed into more sustainable zero-energy housing. However, next to its advantages, there are many challenges that still have to be tackled. One of the main ones is the mismatch between residents’ expectations and systems’ functioning. This report analyses the specific case of a demo...
master thesis 2022
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Chu, Yuxin (author)
Visually impaired people should enjoy the same rights to acquire information as people with normal sight. Since visual contents become more and more pervasive in our daily life, image description becomes increasingly important to help visually impaired people to get equal access to the information contained in visual contents. However, how to...
master thesis 2021
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Tsang, Daniel (author)
In this thesis, we present a study to obtain a clear and accurate overview of the progress and behaviour of COVID-19 in the Netherlands. We distinguish two parts for this study. The first part is to estimate the total number of infected people as a function of time by combining data from hospital admissions, daily reported cases and serological...
master thesis 2021
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