How Smart Objects Can Support Reflections on Health Behavior Change

It is difficult for people to find strategies that fit their needs for changing behaviors. This project investigates how individuals can be supported to reflect on their health behaviors through the use of technology. Through various research and design methods, the project provides a comprehensive overview of the literature on reflections, how...

Design a digital experience that delivers value to smart home users: Inspire and guide people to automate their homes, so they can live a carefree life

A smart home can be defined as a system of connected devices that are controlled remotely from one central place. Smart home solutions used to be for early adopters who like the novel and fun part of this new technology. Currently the smart Home market is moving to mainstream users. Hombli is a smart home brand established in 2019 in the...

Designing a connected barbecue

Through emerging technologies, it is possible to efficiently extend everyday objects with wireless communication and sensing-/actuating functionality. The objects can communicate with each other as well as with humans. The movement that is concerned with applying and investigating these technologies is called The Internet of Things. What the...

Improving Score Arbitration in the Combat Sport Nunchaku-do

The nunchaku (also known as nunchucks), an exotic weapon popularised by Bruce Lee in his famous martial arts films, was adopted in the 80s as the centre piece in a dynamic martial art (nunchaku-do), founded by a small Dutch group of enthusiasts led by Milco Lambrecht. Due to the high speed of match play nunchaku-do, its referees experience...

Smartphone controlled home environments

This master thesis “Smartphone controlled home environments” aimed the integration of gesture control in the context of Smart living. Gesture control as one of the Natural User Interface, shows a limited usage, by mainly being used in the entertainment industry. The property of gesture control was seen to be potential to contribute to smart...

smart foryou: Designing a new individual mobility system for European metropolises of 2025

The goal of this project was to develop a new type of vehicle that shows a fit in smart’s future product portfolio. The idea of developing a vehicle smaller than the existing smart fortwo arose from developments in the market and society. Throughout the whole automotive industry it is agreed that there is an increasing mismatch between existing...

Increase customer loyalty and online net sales share through the use of smart devices

Hilti is a worldwide supplier to the construction industry and their ambitions are to expand bonding with its customers and increase online net sales share percentages. Furthermore Hilti wants to explore the possibilities on creating additional products or services based on smart devices. An extensive research has been performed to be able to...

Project Smart 45XS: "an outlook to the fourth generation smart"

This design project has been done in order to give an outlook to the fourth generation smart fortwo, regarding its overall package and exterior design. The project investigates the core qualities of smart and shows how they can be translated into a concept for 2020 and beyond. The concept that was created – the smart 45XS – is based on four ...

The development of an in-hand-haptic-feedback device based on magnetorheological fluid

During this project, a mobile haptic feedback device, aimed at virtal object representation in virtual reality was developed. The device is capable of providing its users with passive force feedback between their thumb and index finger. The device consists of a magnetorheological fluid damper, suspended between the thumb and the index finger by...

Remote Monitoring to Support Health Care: The designing of an application to ambulatory measure human back movements

This report describes the “Remote Monitoring to Support Health Care” project in which an application is designed to ambulatory measure the movements of the human back. The final design of the application called the Remote Monitoring Navale Application is part of the existing Remote Monitoring System of Evalan. Together with the other components...